Unit 6: Things That Grow, Week 3

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:
Make Way For Ducklings By Robert McClusky
I Heard Said The Bird By Polly Berrien Berends
Sunflower House By Eve Bunting


Small Groups:
Mathematics- Students will weigh the same amounts of different seeds and compare the results.
Literacy- Students will play vegetable memory to help identify different vegetables and things that grow.
Mathematics- Students will complete a ladybug math activity book.
Science- Students will observe their greenhouses and draw a picture of what is happening to their seeds one week after “planting”.
Cooking- Students will help make vegetable soup by following the recipe and preparing different vegetables to go into it.
Literacy- Students will come up with words that begin with the letter W and decorate a page for their letter books.


Choice Time:
Sensory Table- sorting different beans and seeds
Table - Play dough
Manipulatives- measuring length with unifix cubes
Rug – Farms
Dramatic Play – “We're going on a picnic!” play area
Science- Class Sunflower Garden


Songs, Word Play, and Letters:
Open, Shut Them
Five Little Ducks
I'm a Little Teapot
Ten Little Fingers
Five Little Owls In An Old Elm Tree
Five Eggs And Five Eggs