May 24-28
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.
Unit 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 there are predators and prey.
Books -
Planting a Garden, By Louis Elhert
Make Way for Ducklings, By
Small groups -
Math - students will practice counting while making a 5 Little Ducks song board
Language - students will make a small birds nest using collected materials from a nature walk. Students will talk about what they see and hear on the nature walk.
Science - students will make a bird feeder and observe the birds feeding on them from the windows
Art - Students will make an assortment of flowers this week for our Planting a Rainbow scene.
Choice - Sensory table; soil, Red table; finger painting insects, easel; farm animals and dot markers, rug; farms and farm animals, writing center; bean books, book area; farm books.
Special notes:
1) We will have our end of the year family picnic on Wednesday June 9th. The morning picnic will be from 10:45 - 11:30 am and the afternoon picnic will be from 1:45 to 2:30 pm. More information will be sent home soon.
2) This Friday is our field trip to Drumlin Farm. Please refer to the home page of the blog for specific details.
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