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| Voting for our favorite vegetable. |
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| Keeping track of our plant growth. |
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| Counting smiley seeds on vegetables. |
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| Peter Rabbit literacy lesson. |
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| Matching paw shapes game. I think I got this from makinglearningfun |
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| Adding smiley veggie seeds together. |
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| Mr.McGregor adjectives. |
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| Veggie blends. |
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| Rabbit tangrams. |
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| Most of our sunflowers have a sprout. |
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| From Mrs. Lee. Flower blends. |
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| Painting dandelions with dandelions! |
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| Not garden related but we did a piggy bank book using paper coins and making coin combinations. |
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| I've collected various seed packets over the years so I put them in a basket and had the kids make a seed web. They used the packet to illustrate and write the name of the seed. |
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| This center idea came from Mrs. Lee, she even sent me the printable! |
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| I don't know if this book is newer but I recently got it from a book order and it is very cute, especially if your kids like Strega Nona. |
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| I love books written by Zoe Hall and illustrated by Shari Halpern. My friend who teaches down the hall is retiring and she gave me this big book. |
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| Can't figure out how to rotate this one but we read various "Jack and the Beanstalk" stories and filled out a story map. |
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| I have various laminated pictures of fruits and vegetables. After reading "Eating the Alphabet" by Lois Ehlert the kids did this in a center. |
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| Picture/letter cards from makinglearningfun.com Build, write, illustrate center. |
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| Planting sunflower seeds. I found clear cups and we put one seed on the side (so we can watch the roots grow) and two other seeds in the middle. |
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| Another printable from Mrs. Lee!! I made carrots with color words on them. The kids picked a carrot, wrote the color word on the paper and colored the carrot the appropriate color word color. |
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| Leftover vegetable stickers from Oriental Trading and some clip art from DJInkers. |
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| Gabby was convinced if she 'warmed' her sunflower up it would grow faster. |
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| Shopping list cards are from makinglearningfun.com and I had the kids copy and make their own shopping list then the kids added up the number of vegetables from their list. |
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| The seeds we planted are sunflower seeds. I love this story and the kids are excited to see their sunflower grow. Next week, more garden, flowers, watching our sunflower grow, Peter Rabbit and Mr. McGregor. |
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| I got these cute community helper/family finger puppets at IKEA. |
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| These plastic kid sized grocery sacks were on sale at Michael's for $1.00 each. I bought 4 and put them in my kitchen center. |
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| These were 2 for a dollar at Michael's on clearance. They are wooden cookies (not magnetic). I bought four packages. |
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| Seed packets from Drug Mart...10 for a dollar. |
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| I taped some of our high frequency words on the bottom of the wooden cookies for a center this week. The kids will flip over a cookie w/ a spatula and write the word or circle it on a pre-made word search. I haven't decided exactly. |
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| These are ice cube trays for "ice sticks" . You freeze water in them and can fit ice in water bottles. They were taped together, four for a dollar at Dollar Tree. I thought they would make good patterning trays. |
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| Ok, I have at least two of these and they are expensive. Who knows where they are! My son says they are in storage but where. I have a certificate for 8 butterfly larvae but I can't find the netting house you put them in once they spin their cocoon so I found something else at the Dollar Tree.... |
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| A wire trash can (turned upside down). The holes are too small for the butterflies to get out of. As long as I put something underneath, we should be able to release them safely. Plus, I might be able to clean this out a little better than the netted one. Once the Monarch butterflies hatch they have a reddish liquid (looks like blood but it isn't) which is actually what makes their wing color. Next post, "Garden" unit Part 1. |
