Week of April 9th!

Theme for the Unit:

Plants!

Enduring understandings that the student should have by the end of the unit:

• Plants are living things; every part of a plant has an important function.
• Plants grow from seeds and need water, nutrients and light to live.
• Plants are all around us.
• There are many different types of plants. 
• Plants are important for many reasons. 

Lessons and activities for the week:

Blocks- Students will be invited to build a park using blocks and materials added to the block center.

Pretend Play- The teacher will turn Dramatic Play into a flower shop by adding pretend flowers, containers, pictures of flower arrangements, cash register, notepad, writing utensils etc. Children can pretend to make, buy, and sell floral arrangements. Vocabulary words such as bouquet, floral arrangement, florist, and flower will be highlighted.

Art- 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- The teacher will provide individual pictures of the plant life cycle. Students will be asked 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- The teacher will cut out several paper watermelons, add a number to each one, and ask children to put the appropriate number of seeds on each watermelon. Students are encouraged to write the corresponding number.

Library- Students are invited to read books about our theme, plants.

Writing- Students will write letters on a sheet of construction paper.  They can glue seeds onto the letter.  Teacher will talk with students about words that start with the letter.

Sensory- Sand and water, or play-doh.

Some of the books we will read this week are: 

•  The Curious Garden by Peter Brown 
• Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt by Kate Messner 

Reminders / Notices:

•    Dismissal is at 12:00 noon on Friday April 27th.

•         Parent Teacher Conferences are on Friday April 27th from 3:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m

Link to Weekly Lesson Plan

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