Preschool Plant Unit
Little Sweet has really showed an interest in plants. She was so excited to see the flowers blooming and the leaves on the trees. I thought it would be fun to do a unit on plants. My mom also thought we needed to start a garden so she bought Little Sweets these great crayola plant starter kits.
Little Sweets is planting the tomato seeds in the soil.
She is watering the seeds.
A few weeks later our tomato plants looked like this. This is amazing because I do not have a green thumb and all ten plants look like this.
Little Sweets used unifix cubes to measure how tall this plant is.
She is helping daddy build a bed for tomato plants. Hopefully, I will show the planted tomato plants in the bed in another post. We just haven't planted them in it yet.
I wrote a song about plants on our white board and Little Sweets circled and read the high frequency words. I wish I took a picture of the enitre board after she was done, but I only have a picture of what she circled in the first sentence. I also drew pictures to go with the words she didn't know and she did a great job singing the song.
Here is one of Little Sweets journal entries. I am encouraging her to use invented spelling.
This was an interactive writing activity. Little Sweets dictated a sentence about plants. I wrote the words she didn't know and she wrote the words she knew. I also encouraged her to draw a picture that matched the words. She labeled the rain with my help. I encouraged her to write the sounds she heard. She wrote "ran." I helped her out by adding the i and explaining that it changes the sound of the letter "a."
We took a field trip to the Botanical Gardens.
We also took a field trip to the strawberry patch.
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