Unit 6: Things That Grow, Week 5



This week, our class will finish 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

Sunflower House By Eve Bunting

Bigger By Daniel Kirk



Small Groups:

Mathematics-Students will complete a flower math book.

Mathematics- Students will explore size and group things together by categories (small, medium and large)

Science- Students will use their knowledge of what grows and what doesn't to complete a picture chart.

Literacy- Students will complete a picture story of how a seed grows by putting the pictures in the correct order.

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





Choice Time:

Sensory Table- sorting different pastas by size

Table - Play dough

Writing- Making story books

Rug – Large Letter Puzzle

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