We’re going through our third week of talking about gardening and planting, plants and all that entails. This week we’re focusing a little more on the animals you might find in your garden or just outside on a beautiful spring day. We have some things sprouting and the kids are excited about planting more things! They helped plant green peppers one day and then corn, potatoes and blueberry bushes another. We had to expand our garden plot, and will have to again for melons and pumpkins!
Media/Kit:
Grow It, Try It, Like It Kit Preschool fun with fruits and vegetables: I read excerpts from these books and am showing the video.
Field Trip: To the FARM STORE for PLANTS!!!!!!
Reading Together:
Sparkly Garden by Davis (board book)
Scratch and Sniff Garden by DK Publishing (board book)
Mi JardÃn (My Garden) by Emberley (board book-Spanish)
Wonderful Worms by Glaser
Busy in the Garden by Shannon (poetry)
Garden Friends by DK Publishing
Garden Partners by Palmisciano
The Life Cycle of a Carrot by Tagliaferro
The First Prize Carrot by Connelly (sharing)
First Animal Facts Garden by big box entertainment (board book)
Diary of a Worm by Cronin
National Geo. My First Pocket Guide GARDEN BIRDS by Lindsey
Flower Garden by Bunting
Bugs Bunny’s Carrot Machine by Carlisle
Number Conservation Planting Monster Melons by Burstein (fun book that focuses on imaginary plants while introducing math concepts!)
Miss Jaster’s Garden by Bodeck
Planting a Rainbow by Ehlert
Biography–Seeds of Change (Wangari Maathai Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Medalist for Conservation- first African Woman winner-founder of the Green Belt Movement and environmentalism in Kenya!) — ps this ties into my love of cloth diapers because a company made a Maathai diaper a few years ago!
6 year old Independent Reading:
Hank Zipzer I Got a “D” in Salami by Winkler
Mr. Docker is off his Rocker by Gutman
Ms. Todd is Odd by Gutman
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Secret Pitch by Sobol
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Midnight Visitor by Sobol
Encyclopedia Brown Sets the Pace by Sobol
Encyclopedia Brown Keeps the Peace by Sobol
Encyclopedia Brown Lends a Hand by Sobol
Ms. Hannah is Bananas by Gutman
Hank Zipzer Day of the Iguana by Winkler
Horrible Harry and the Ant Invasion by Kline
Song Lee and the Leech Man by Kline
Like Bug Juice on a Burger by Sternberg
Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Stolen Corn Popper by Adler
Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Dinosaur Bones by Adler
3 year old reading together:
Clifford’s Pals by Bridwell
Clifford the Firehouse Dog by Bridwell
Clifford and the Big Storm by Bridwell
6 year old’s Spelling words: butterfly, plants, flowers, roots, stems, bulbs, seeds, garden, till, hoe, bonus words: grasshopper, annual
Paper Work:
We caught up on some miscellaneous worksheets from before Easter (oops, they were hidden!) and continued with some additional random things, plus more spring/gardening items!
3 year old from education.com spring themed workbook:
Matching baby animals to their mamas
Matching animals to their homes
Circle spring clothing items
More or less (butterflies)
Counting (introduction to addition) flowers
Preschool subtraction (crossing out butterflies, bugs, and bees and counting remaining)
Drawing a flower, tracing the word flower
Tracing the word carrot, dot to dot and coloring the carrot
Assorted random worksheets: Beginning sounds, rhyming, hidden Easter eggs, patterns
6 year old from education.com spring themed workbook:
Drawing a flower, tracing the word flower, writing a sentence with the word flower.
Tracing the word carrot, dot to dot and coloring the carrot
Preschool science flower chart (I made her write the items, not cut and paste, so that makes it higher level)
How to potatoes grow cut and paste in order
Plant survival
Kindergarten science- label parts of a bee
What does a plant need
Assorted sight word, number writing, and coloring sheets, Easter worksheets, spring coloring book, crosswords, word searches, etc.
Linking up with the Weekly Wrap UP at WUH!