Week 3 Things That Grow

Theme 6- 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.

Books This Week:
I Heard Said the Bird by Polly Berends
Ladybugs
The Hungry Caterpillar

Small Groups:
-Ladybug Counting Book
-Making our own The Hungry Caterpillar stories. Our caterpillar likes to eat vegetables.
- Measuring our bean plants with unifix cubes

Let's Find out about It
-Exploring a bird's nest

Centers
-Dramatic Play- Cooking Vegetables in the kitchen
-Sensory Table- Sorting and Stringing Buttons
-Art Table- making flower gardens
-Science- Exploring and Examining a real bird nest
-Blocks- Bristle Blocks
-Writing - 5 on a flower books
-Library- Books about growing
-Math - counting ladybugs

Coming Attractions
1) This Friday is our field trip to Drumlin Farm. Please refer to the home page of the blog for specific details.


2) We will have our end of the year family picnic on Thursday June 10th. More information will be sent home soon.


3) If you would like to meet for an end of the year conference please let me know.