Week 2 - Things That Grow

Theme - Things That Grow
Children will explore how living things grow, using observations, experiments, and books. Through story time readings, children will hear about ducks who find a special home, a new baby on a farm, a boy who grows from baby to school age, and a girl who discovers the joys of growing vegetables. Children continue to learn about letters, sounds, and rhyming words, and participate in many other math, science, music, poetry, and art activities.


Theme Concepts:
-Living things grow and have life cycles.
-Living things reproduce, and the offspring are the same kind of plant or animal as their parents.
-Living things need food, water, and proper living conditions to survive.
-Immature living things need special care.
-Living things interact, and among animals there are predators and prey.


Book This Week:
Make Way for Ducklings

Small Groups:
- Math- Which is Longer? - Students will measure different length sticks with unifix cubes.

- Math- Vegetable Race - Students will roll a dice with vegetable pictures to see which picture is rolled the most often.

- Language Arts - Vegetable Bingo

Centers
-Dramatic Play- Making vegetable soup
-Sensory Table- Legoes
-Art Table- Making names with bird seed
-Science- Sorting and viewing seeds with magnifying glasses
-Blocks-
-Math- Counting Seeds Activity
-Library- Make Way for Ducklings on Tape
Technology - Itouches

Songs, Word Play, and Letters
-Green Grass Grows All Around
-Five Eggs and Five Eggs