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 leters, 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 ther are predators and prey.
Book This Week:
Planting A Rainbow by Lois Ehlert
The Ugly Vegetables by Grace Lin
Small Groups:
- Math- Weighing Vegetables and Beans- Children will compare the weight of vegetables and beans using empty milk containers filled with vegetables in each hand to create a human balance scale. We will try to guess which is heavier then use a real balance scale to see if we were correct.
-Science- Observing our greenhouses. We created lima green greenhouses last week. We will make entries in our lima bean journals of how the beans are growing. We will also color,cut, and glue a plant sequence to reinforce how plants grow.
-Science- Observing our greenhouses. We created lima green greenhouses last week. We will make entries in our lima bean journals of how the beans are growing. We will also color,cut, and glue a plant sequence to reinforce how plants grow.
-Technology- We will be using I-Touches in small groups. Each child will play an application to their specific level.
Centers-Dramatic Play- Cooking Vegetables in the kitchen
-Sensory Table- Bird Seed
-Art Table- Printing Veggies on paper with paint
-Science- Observing Tadpoles and observing our green bean plants(observation journals
-Blocks- Jungle Animals
-Math- Bean Pattern Activity
-Library- Books about growing
Songs, Word Play, and Letters
-Grow, Grow, Grow
-Green Grass Grows All Around
-Green Grass Grows All Around
-Letter Garden- Each child will be given a fruit or vegetable. A "seed letter" will be planted and they will be asked if they have a fruit or vegetable that has the beginning sound of that letter.
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