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:
Bigger
I Heard Said the Bird by Polly Berends
Small Groups:
- Finger Flower Book- We will make a flower book using our thumbprints as petals of flowers.
-Game- Spatial Relation Game
-Measuring Ourselves- We will use blocks to measure how long our hands, arm and bodies are.
Let's Find out about It
- Sorting seeds and describing them
- Transplanting our green bean plants into larger containers and examining their roots
Centers
-Dramatic Play- Workshop
-Sensory Table-Water and Fish
-Art Table- making flower gardens
-Science- Exploring a Worm Habitat and Examining a real bird nest
-Blocks- Tinker Toys on rug
-Math- Measuring Center- measuring classroom objects
-Library- Books about growing
Songs, Word Play, and Letters
-Dr. Jean Alphabet
-Grow, Grow, Grow
-Green Grass Grows All Around
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