May 10-14th
Unit overview - 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 will 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:
The Ugly Vegetables, by Grace Lin
Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert
Small groups:
Math group - Students will discuss the concept of measuring length. They will compare colored tinker toy sticks and make predictions about their length.
Science group- Students will plant white kidney beans inside a paper towel and a plastic cup. They will track its growth inside their own Bean Growth Journal!
Fine motor group - Students will make a green broccoli by cutting paper, gluing and coloring.
Choice:
- Blocks on the rug , painting with green shades, making vegetable soup in the dramatic play area, bird seed in the sensory table, vegetable prints, and fruit and vegetable puzzles.
Music:
- Freeze Dance, Down by the Bay, Windshield Wiper Poem, Daisies and Buttercups Poem, If You're Happy and You Know It
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