Week 4: Explore Plant Needs

Learning Goals

STEM

Children will:

  • Observe and describe plants in their natural habitat
  • Observe and describe cultivated plants
  • Understand that plants in soil have some parts below ground and some above
  • Observe that plants grow in different places and in different types of soil
  • Understand that plants get their needs met from the environment (their habitat)
  • Begin to understand that plants can depend on animals (such as earthworms) to grow
  • Identify earthworms as tiny animals that live in the soil, underground
  • Recognize that living things have needs
  • Measure, record, and display plant growth on graphs
  • Predict and compare and record changes in plants
  • Do simple experiments, record, and share ideas

ELA

Children will:

  • Recognize, match, and form uppercase and lowercase “Ww” (Alphabet Awareness)
  • Identify the letter (“Ww”) in context of a word (worm) (Alphabet Awareness)
  • Recognize and produce beginning sounds in words (/w/) (Phonological Awareness)
  • Repeat and generate alliterative sentences (Phonological Awareness)
  • Build understanding through text-to-self and text-to-text connections (Comprehension)
  • Interpret illustrations from a story (Comprehension)
  • Make and confirm predictions about a story (Comprehension)
  • Engage in active viewing and listening (Listening and Speaking)
  • Be exposed to new concept vocabulary in cross-curricular ways (Vocabulary)
  • Listen to, develop an understanding of meaning, and use new concept vocabulary words about planting including soil, environment, leaves, plant, root, and stem (Vocabulary)

SOCIAL EMOTIONAL

Children will:

  • Work cooperatively in a small group or with a partner
  • Begin to show self confidence in their abilities as they share ideas
  • Begin to initiate, organize, and participate in independent activities
  • Understand and respect group roles, rules, and expectations
  • Begin to understand the importance of helping others
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