We’ll be working on plants, garden life and all sorts of things like that probably for the rest of the ‘school year’… seems wrong to say it like that, I’m not ready for it to be summer, I love teaching them! We’ll see how much they tolerate in the way of ‘learning’ over the warm weather weeks! Can you tell what our spring project is? I hope that this Earth week and always that my kids enjoy a real love of the environment and a connection to food grown in a garden.
Project:
Growing our very own garden!
Marking our flower seeds
Cupping the seeds in our hands!
Tamping down the seeds
Must be lunch time!
…and some for you!
Multimedia:
Johnny Appleseed and Miss Rumphius books and video kit – spreading seeds
And then It’s Spring (based on book by Fogliano age range 4-8 years)
Science/Reading Together:
Planting Seeds by Wallace (counting to 10 board book)
Carrot Nose by Wahl (manners)
Vegetable Garden by Florian (simple words big pictures)
Planting the Wild Garden by Galbraith (Great illustrations and explanations of how seeds spread!)
Tiny Green Thumbs by Guest (6 things plants need to grow, including love and talks about hard work!)
My Garden by Henkes (jellybean trees?!?)
Curious George The Perfect Carrot by Sacks (sacrifice, could tie into food pantries)
It’s Pumpkin Time! by Hall (life cycle of pumpkins)
Grow Your Own Strawberries by Lanz (informational, instructional)
Grow Your Own Sandwich (tomatoes) by Malam (informational, instructional)
Grow Your Own Soup (pumpkins) by Malam (informational, instructional, different from other pumpkin book!)
The Carrot Seed by Krauss (this one may be out of circulation at many libraries, copyright 1945–excellent book about belief in self)
Excerpts from First Family by Hopkinson re: the White House Garden (discuss growing own garden and eating good food)
6 year old Independent Reading:
The magic school bus inside the earth by Cole
The magic school bus Inside a Beehive by Cole
The magic school bus In the Time of the Dinosaurs by Cole
The Locked Room (Shivers) by Spenser
The Curse in the Jungle (Shivers) by Spenser
Mary Marony and the Snake by Kline
Mary Marony and the Chocolate Surprise by Kline
The Mystery of the Butterfly Garden by Murphy
Like Carrot Juice on a Cupcake by Sternberg
First Family by Hopkinson
Paperwork stuff 6 year old:
Fruit coloring book with recognizing the fruits, tracing their names, knowing the colors to color them, etc. from mamaslearningcorner.com
Addition from 0+0 to 12+12 flashcards
Small bit of writing, 2 huge double digit addition worksheets (w and w/out carrying over) plus learning to count by 3’s
PLANTS Unit 3 CHAPTER 10 in Elementary Science (Life Science) book from http://www.eequalsmcq.com/ClassicScienceLife.htm
(activities included in chapter include drawing and labeling a plant and all the parts, recognizing vocabulary words/definitions and matching word parts to make vocab words)
Paperwork stuff 3 year old:
Numbers 1-20 recognizing with flash cards (she’s playing me, I know she knows these, but still messes them up…. oh well!)
Fruit coloring book with recognizing the fruits, tracing their names, knowing the colors to color them, etc. from mamaslearningcorner.com
Finding the numbers 1-4 and coloring them, then counting and writing the number of objects
Assorted alphabet worksheets with tracing and writing random letters, coloring page, patterns, rhyme, etc.
Linking up with WUH Weekly Wrap up!
I love your garden and all your book ideas with your six-year-old. I just might be borrowing some 🙂 Thanks for sharing your weekly wrap-up!