Amaryllis Bulbs

Our classroom was given 8 amaryllis bulbs recently. The students were very intrigued with these "strange" looking objects that appeared on our round table after lunch.

Here are just some of the students' thoughts:

"I think the thing is a radish."
"I think it is an onion."
"It's a turnip."
"It's like cinnamon. So brown."
"You cook with it."
"It's growing."
"It's a seed."
"Inside are the seeds. We need to plant it."

Those are just a few of the ideas that the students had.

We've planted most of the bulbs now and are patiently waiting to watch and see what will happen.

Since some students were very convinced that there were seeds inside and so we cut one open to look for the seeds. We also compared a cut onion to the cut bulb and let the children smell both to see if they had the same smell.

We are all excited to see what will happen in the coming weeks!