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Small Groups: Plant Measurements
Help children measure the parts of a plant using a measuring object. Have them draw each plant part.
Talk Together: Flowers, Stems, and Roots
Talk about plant parts and how each part helps the plant grow.
Talk Together: Garden Soil
Discuss how vegetables have been picked from the soil of the garden or farm that they were grown in.
Talk Together: Get the Soil Ready
Review how worms help gardens. Create a tunnel and have children “worm” their way through the tunnel.
Talk Together: Introduce Plants
Introduce plants and tell children they will learn about different types of plants. “Plant Wall” of pictures and children’s works.
Talk Together: Measuring
Challenge children to think of ways they can use materials to measure their plants.
Talk Together: More About Plants
Talk with children about plants and what they need to grow.
Talk Together: Parts of Plants
Review parts of plants by observing the children’s growing plants.
Talk Together: Plant Helpers
Explain the difference between growing plants in pots and plants growing in their natural environments.
Talk Together: Plant Review
Review what children learned about plants. Have children share a page in their science notebooks.
Talk Together: Plants and Roots
Continue to discuss plants, including trees and roots.
Talk Together: Roots and Stems
Review the parts of a plant. Emphasize the roles of roots and stems.
Talk Together: Seeds and Plants Review
Have children illustrate and dictate a sentence featuring what a plant needs to grow.
Talk Together: Sprouting Seeds
Have children describe plants around his or her home. Then examine a plant from last week’s exploration that has sprouted.
Watch Together: “Exploring Small Spaces” #1 (PEEP live-action clip)
Play the live-action video clip PEEP and the Big Wide World “Exploring Small Spaces.” Have children compare the plants in the video to plants they have explored.
Watch Together: “Exploring Small Spaces” #2 (PEEP live-action clip)
Play the video PEEP and the Big Wide World “Exploring Small Spaces.” Have children compare things they found to what the children in the video found.
Watch Together: “Help!” #1 (BTL show)
Play the video Between the Lions “Help!” and have children focus on what the little red hen does with the grains.
Watch Together: “Help!” #2 (BTL show)
Play the video Between the Lions “Help!” again. Compare how the hen grows her wheat to how the children planted their seeds.
Watch Together: “Information Hen: Things That Grow” (BTL clip)
Play the video Between the Lions “Information Hen: Things That Grow” as you review seeds and plants.
Watch Together: “Peep Plants a Seed” #1 (PEEP show)
Play Peep and the Big Wide World “Peep Plants a Seed” and have children focus on what the characters do with the seed.