Week 5 Things That Grow

Theme 6- Things That Grow

**Please remember our Family Picnic is on Wednesday June 9.  Our picnic will begin at 10:40 with a musical performance by the Cub Cadets.  They are very excited to show you the songs we have been singing in school.****

Things That Grown Theme

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 By Daniel Kirk
The Teeny Tiny Tadpole

Small Groups:
-Art/Science- Making "cupcake" flowers then labeling them with the parts of a flower(stem, leaves, seeds, roots)
-Math- We will use blocks to measure how long a street is. 

Centers
-Dramatic Play- Pizza Shop
-Sensory Table-Water and waterwheels
-Art Table- watercolors
-Science- Observing Tadpoles, Lima Bean Green House journal writing
-Blocks- Dinosaur Mountain
-Math- Measuring Center- measuring classroom objects
-Library- Books about growing

Songs, Word Play, and Letters
-Dr. Jean Alphabet
-Growing
-Green Grass Grows All Around