Our field trip to Drumlin Farm is this Friday!

Unit 6: Things That Grow, Week 4



This week, our class will continue our unit on 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 their are predators and prey.







Books this week:

Make Way For Ducklings By Robert McClusky

I Heard Said The Bird By Polly Berrien Berends

Bigger By Daniel Kirk



Small Groups:

Mathematics-Students will make their own seed patterns.

Literacy- Students will match lowercase to uppercase letters in a game of letter memory.

Mathematics- Students will sequence pictures from smallest to biggest.

Science- Students will observe their greenhouses and draw a picture of what is happening to their seeds two weeks after “planting”.

Mathematics-Students will complete a soup positional book to help their understanding of direction.

Literacy- Students will come up with words that begin with the letter X and decorate a page for their letter books.





Choice Time:

Sensory Table- sorting different beans and seeds

Table - Play dough

Writing- Making story books

Rug – Little People Play set

Dramatic Play – Taking care of babies and learning what babies need

Science- Taking care of our class sunflower garden





Songs, Word Play, and Letters:

Mary Had a Little Lamb

Five Little Ducks

I’m a Little Teapot

Good Morning Mrs. Hen

Stand Up

My Shadow