Week of
April 24th, 2017
Plants!
Enduring understandings that the student should have by the end of the
unit:
v Plants are living things; every part of a plant has an important
function.
v Plants grow from seeds and need water, nutrients and light to
live.
v Plants are all around us.
v There are many different types of plants.
v Plants are important for many reasons.
Lessons and Activities For Learning Centers
Blocks-Build Plants:
The teacher will wrap blocks
in green, brown and other color papers and invite children to use
them to create stems, tree trunks, soil etc. The teacher will supply
paper, scissors and tape for children to use to create leaves, flowers etc. to
add to their plants. Add pictures of a wide variety of plants for children to
reference as they build. As children create their plants talk with them about
the parts of the plants and types of plants they are creating, highlighting
vocabulary words such as branch, flower, leaves and stem.
Pretend play Flower Shop:
The teacher will turn Dramatic
Play into a flower shop by adding pretend flowers, containers and pictures of
flower arrangements as well as a cash register, notepad, writing utensils etc.
Children can pretend to make, buy and sell floral arrangements. As you play with
the children, use and highlight vocabulary words such as bouquet, floral
arrangement, florist and flower.
Art-Paper Flowers:
The teacher will supply pipe
cleaners as well as tissue paper circles. Children can pierce the middle of the
tissue paper circles with the pipe cleaner, adding as many as they would like,
then fold the circles up to create a flower. After creating these flowers
children can use them in the Dramatic Play flower shop.
Science-Plant Life Cycle:
The teacher will provide
individual pictures of the plant life cycle. Ask children to sequence the
pictures. The teacher will provide pictures / diagrams for children to
refer to as they play and talk with them about each stage in the life
cycle.
Math-Seeds in a Watermelon:
The teacher will cut out
several paper watermelon and add a number to each one and ask children to put
the appropriate number of seeds on each Watermelon. Encourage children to write
their own numbers as they are ready.
Library-Felt Board
Story:
The teacher will create felt
board pictures for a favorite class book on plants. Invite children to use the
pictures to retell the story.
Writing-Seed Letters:
The teacher will write
letters on index cards. Provide seeds for children to place on the letters.
The teacher will talk with the children about the letters they chose to
create and some of the words that start with those letters.
Technology-Plants Around the
World:
The teacher will pull up
pictures of plants that grow in different parts of the world or may be novel to
the children. For example, succulents, palm trees and cattails may be plants
that children in New York City do not see on a regular basis. The teacher
will invite children to take notes while they look at different types of
plants. They can draw pictures of what they see or write letters they hear in
the names of plants they hear or see on the screen. Provide various types of
paper commonly used for note taking such as lined paper, post-it notes
etc.
Sensory-Seaweed:
The teacher will add plastic plants to
the water in the sensory table along with pretend fish, toy boats etc. Invite
children to talk about the different places they can find plants and discuss
why plants grow in the bottom of oceans, rivers, lakes etc.
• The Curious
Garden by Peter Brown
•
Up in the Garden and
Down in the Dirt by Kate Messner
Recommended Home School Connection
Monday: Universal Handwriting Page 50 and 51
Tuesday: Getting ready to read and write Page 52 and 53
Wednesday: Hand Writing My Letter Book pages 40 and 41
Thursday: Math
News Here’s What I Know If you have any questions Mr. Woods or I cannot answer feel free to contact the Archdiocese at (888) 227-8175 from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm or Email At Cathlicschools.upk@archny.org
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