Unit 6 - Things that Grow!

Week 2- May 17-21

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 LinGrowing Vegetable Soup by Lois EhlertSmall groups:

Small groups: Math group - Students will weigh and measure various vegetables. They will compare quantity and size.

Language - Students will play vegetable memory and vegetable BINGO

Science - Students will inspect various kinds of seeds and sort them into categories.

Art - Students will color, glue and cut to make paper vegetables for out vegetable garden scene!

Choice:

Fruit and vegetable painting on the easel, bean growing books in the writing area, soil in the sensory table, bird seed on the red table, worm and snake observations and drawings on the blue table, blocks on the rug and making vegetable soup in the dramatic play area. 

** We have expanded our class pets from 6 tadpoles to now class worms, Herm, Ferm and Verm the worms and our baby garden snake named Jake. *** 

Music and Movement: Freeze Dance, Resting song with accompanying stretch moves, Where is Thumbkin, Rhythm Sticks, and The Wheels on the Bus.