Things That Grow Week 2

****Please remember to send in your permission slips for soup and the field trip this week! :) ****


Unit 6- Things That Grow

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:
The Ugly Vegetables By Grace Lin
The Lion and the Little Red Bird By Elisa Kleven
The Tiny Seed By Eric Carle

Small Groups:
Mathematics- Students will measure themselves and compare their height to that of other classmates.
Literacy- Students will play vegetable memory to help identify different vegetables and things that grow.
Science- Students will plant a seed in a “greenhouse” that we will get to observe later as it grows.
Literacy and Art- Students will draw a portrait of themselves and tell a teacher about it.
Art- Students will decorate the letter V for their alphabet books by putting different pictures of vegetables inside.
Mathematics- Students will continue to work on their ability to create patterns with different seeds.


Choice Time:
Sensory Table- sorting different seeds and grains
Easel – Painting pictures of vegetables
Table - Play dough
Manipulatives- puzzles
Rug – Waffle blocks
Dramatic Play – kitchen area, using foods that can be grown to make soup!


Songs, Word Play, and Letters:
Green Grass Grows All Around
If You're Happy and You Know It
I'm a Little Teapot
Eentsy Weentsy Spider
Buttercups And Daisies
Five Eggs And Five Eggs
The Little Turtle