Week 4 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.


Our friends had a fantastic time on the field trip. We saw sheep, cows, pigs and chickens. Many of our friends touched the skin of a skunk, and red fox.


Books This Week:
Animals Born Alive and Well
Growing Things
Bigger

Small Groups:
Measuring Ourselves - Students will measure their arms, legs and hands with unifix cubes.

Sorting Animals - Students will sort plastic animals into two categories - Animals born alive versus animals that hatch from eggs.

Animal Name Sound and Letter Match - Students will match animal pictures with their initial sound.

Centers
-Dramatic Play- Cooking Vegetables in the kitchen
-Sensory Table- Linking Cubes
-Art Table- making gardens
-Math - Pattern Blocks
-Rug - Doll houses
-Lite Brites
-Library- Books about growing

Coming Attractions
1) We will have our end of the year family party on Thursday June 10th. We are looking for volunteers to bring in goodies for our family party.

2) Please see me if you would like to meet for an end of the year conference .

Thanks
Katie, Kim and Moira