Week 3 Things That Grow

Theme 6- 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 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.

Books This Week:
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
I Heard Said the Bird by Polly Berends

Small Groups:
- Veggie Bingo. We will play a new version of bingo with vegetables on our bingo boards and cover the veggies with seeds.
-Which vegetable will win?  We will roll a veggie die and color on a chart the veggie on the top of the die.  Ask your child which veggie wins the race
-Comparing length- Children will be asked to cut 5 different strips of paper and put them in order from smallest to biggest. Then we will measure how long each strip is using unifix cubes.

Let's Find out about It
- Sorting seeds and describing them
- Making Bird Feeders using birdseed and pine cones
- Transplanting our green bean plants into larger containers and examining their roots
Centers
-Dramatic Play- Cooking Vegetables in the kitchen
-Sensory Table- Bird Seed
-Art Table- making flower gardens
-Science- Exploring a Worm Habitat and Examining a real bird nest
-Blocks- Doll Houses
-Math- Weighing Center (various vegetables and fruit with a pan scale to explore)
-Library- Books about growing

Songs, Word Play, and Letters
-Grow, Grow, Grow
-Green Grass Grows All Around
-Color Garden- Each child will be given a fruit or vegetable. A color will be planted and they will be asked if they have a fruit or vegetable that has that color.