Unit 7: Watch It Grow

This list gives you an overview of all the materials you will need throughout this 4-week unit, except for the materials used in the Learning Centers. (Those are indicated with each Learning Center.) Note that you will also find a list of specific materials needed for each week at the beginning of that week.

• 2 plants of the same type
• 3 whole fresh fruits that look very different inside (such as an orange, a peach, and a melon); pre-cut pieces of these fruits; pictures or stickers of these fruits
• artificial flowers
• audio player
• Between the Lions alphabet chart
• baking pans or cardboard box lids
• blocks
• blank word cards
• camera
• cardboard box
• chalk
• chart paper
• clipboard
• construction paper
• construction paper medals
• dark paper or cloth
• dried kidney or lima beans
• flowerpot or window box
• fresh peapods
• fresh vegetables, such a small bunch of carrots or radishes or a potato or turnip, with mud and roots still visible on them
• fruit with seeds
• glitter
• glue
• gourd
• green or yellow beans
• grown plant and a sprouting plant
• highlighter or highlighter tape
• jar (plastic or glass)
• kitchen spices (thyme, parsley, rosemary, etc.—dried, ground)
• large glass container with a screen cover or clear plastic jar and lid with holes
• large outlines of uppercase “K” (one for each child)
• letter cards: “Gg,” “Kk,” “Ll,” “Ss,” “Ww”
• live flowering plant with visible seeds
• magnetic letters “G” and “g” (multiple sets)
• magnifying lenses
• markers, pencils, pens, crayons
• music CD
• name cards
• name chart
• nonstandard measuring tools (stacking cubes, connecting cubes, string, etc.)
• onions (3–4, preferably ones that are already beginning to sprout)
• pail or box
• paper
• paper clips
• paper cups
• paper sack or plastic baggies
• paper towels
• picture books of flowers and herbs
• pictures of fruits and vegetables with seeds visible
• pictures of fruit trees/plants
• pictures of gardens of various sizes and types
• pictures of objects that begin with /c/, /g/, /k/, /l/, /n/, /p/, /s/, /t/, /w/
• pictures of plants (flowers, trees, bushes, grass, etc.)
• pictures or books showing plants grown from bulbs
• pictures representing the four seasons
• plant bulbs (onion, tulip, lily, garlic)
• plant diagram
• plants and corresponding seeds (dandelion/dandelion seeds, pumpkin/pumpkin seeds, sunflower/sunflower seeds)
• plastic cups (clear)
• plastic flower pots or containers with holes poked in bottom for drainage
• plastic letters “Bb,” “Hh,” “Kk,” “Mm,” “Pp,” “Rr,” “Ss,” and “Tt”
• plastic plates
• plastic spoons
• plastic wrap
• potting soil
• red food coloring
• ruler
• sandpaper
• scissors
• seed packets (variety)
• seeds for planting (bean, grass, carrot, apple, watermelon, grass, pumpkin, sunflower)
• sentence chart
• sentence strips
• sheet or blanket
• small bags
• small counting or stacking cubes
• small spiral notebooks (one for each child)
• soda bottles (clear)
• soil
• stacking and connecting cubes
• stickers and stamps of things that begin with /w/
• story figures from the book The Carrot Seed (boy, seed, mother, father, brother, watering can, carrot, wheelbarrow)
• sunflower stickers
• taller plastic cups or other plastic containers for replanting (with holes in bottom for drainage)
• tape
• toothpicks
• trowels
• water
• water spray bottles
• watering can
• white flower with a stem
• word cards garden, kitchen, leaves, seed, Sam, saw, Sue’s, sprouting
• worms (dig them up, purchase them at a bait shop or order them from a biological supply catalogue)

Books

The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss
One Bean by Anne Rockwell
Flower Garden by Eve Bunting
The Little Red Hen by Paul Galdone
Wonderful Worms by Linda Glaser
Vegetable Garden by Douglas Florian

Videos

“Peep Plants a Seed” (PEEP show) (0:08:45)
“Exploring Small Spaces” (PEEP live-action clip) (0:01:28)
“Experimenting with Seeds” (PEEP live-action clip) (0:01:28)
“The Carrot Seed” (BTL show) (0:03:47)
“Help!” (BTL show) (0:06:36)
“Wonderful Worms” (BTL show) (0:06:08)
“Fred Says: Sing” (BTL clip) (0:00:27)
“Words Beginning with ‘s’” (BTL clip) (0:00:24)
“Information Hen: Things That Grow” (BTL clip) (0:01:18)
“You Never Hear the Garden Grow” (BTL clip) (0:00:43)
“Word Morph: gold-goose-gourd” (BTL clip) (0:00:11)
“Words Beginning with ‘g’” (BTL clip) (0:00:24)
“Word Morph: kiwi-kids-kitten-kite” (BTL clip) (0:00:21)
“Words Beginning with ‘k’” (BTL clip) (0:00:24)
“Fred Says: kazoo” (BTL clip) (0:00:24)
“Words beginning with ‘w’” (BTL clip) (0:00:19)
“Lions Wiggling” (BTL clip) (0:00:43)
“Worm Watches” (BTL clip) (0:01:12)

Interactive Game

“Round and Round” (PEEP game)
“Flower Power” (PEEP game)

Playlist

Unit 7 Media Assets (BTL and PEEP)
URL: http://resourcesforearlylearning.org/children/

Songs

“Where Is?”
“Good Morning”
“Good-bye to You”
“The Boy Plants a Seed”
“Dig the Earth”
“It’s Teamwork”
“I’m a Little Brown Seed”
“This Is the Way I Plant the Grains”
“What Can We Do to Help Today?”

Poems and Chants

“Clap a Friend’s Name”
“A Seed is Planted”
“Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary”
“Five Little Flowers”