This week the kindergarteners have been busy learning about plants. We started by reviewing living and non-living things. Then we identified the different things a plant needs to survive- sunlight, water, air, and soil. After creating a flip chart identifying the needs, we started an experiment to see if we are right. We planted some grass seeds in 3 different cups. We are eliminating one of the needs in each of the cups (water, sunlight, and soil). We are going to see what happens. We also made a glove garden. We are going to try to sprout some seed in a plastic glove. We put five different seeds in a (plastic serving) glove with a cotton ball that was dunked in water. Then we tied it shut and hung it in the window. We also wrote about a garden. After deciding what kind of garden we wanted to plant (vegetable or flower), we had to tell why and what we would plant. We ended by eating some soil/dirt. We made some pudding and then added some crushed graham crackers and Oreos as the layers of soil. As a final touch, we added a worm before we got to give it a try. When we were done, we gathered and analyzed some data about our favorite parts. On Thursday, we went on a field trip to the Minnesota Zoo. We enjoyed seeing all of the animals and hanging out with our friends.
Monday:
Reading:
Reviewed our letters and letters sounds - Sang our Better Alphabet Song
Phonological Awareness Warmups
Reviewed living and nonliving things
Completed a sorting worksheet
Read through our emergent reader, Planting a Garden
Mixin’ & Fixin’ short i worksheet
Completed a Boom Game (on the iPad) - CVC words
Math:
Calendar Binder
Number Talk
Introduced to estimation
Religion:
Gospel Weekly- Jesus Brings Us Peace
Tuesday:
Reading:
Reviewed our letters and letters sounds - Sang our Better Alphabet Song
Phonological Awareness Warmups
Introduced to our new words, yes, us, or, & from
Reviewed verbs and nouns
Reviewed living and nonliving things
Listened to the story, Seed to Plant
Watched 2 videos about what plants need
Determined the needs of plants - sun, water, air, soil - and created a flip chart
Started a science experiment about the needs of plants
Math:
Calendar Binder
Number Talk
Religion:
Adoration at Church in front of the Blessed Sacrament
Watched a video of St Bernadette and colored her picture - Her feast day is today, April 16th.
Wednesday:
Reading:
Reviewed our letters and letters sounds - Sang our Better Alphabet Song
Phonological Awareness Warmups
Completed a Mixin’ & Fixin’ short o worksheet
Reviewed Nouns and Action Verbs
Completed a noun and verb sorting worksheet
Completed a Boom Game (on the iPad)
Wrote a description of the what we would plant in our garden
Math:
Calendar Binder
Number Talk
Made soil for snack
Collected data from friends about our soil snack
Analyzed our own data and answered questions
Religion:
Reviews the story of when Moses was born
Listened to the story of Moses and the Burning Bush
Thursday:
Field Trip to the Minnesota Zoo
Friday:
Reading:
Reviewed our letters and letters sounds - Sang our Better Alphabet Song
Phonological Awareness Warmups
Completed a short o scrambled word worksheet
Reviewed the needs of a plant
Discussed the life cycle of a plant
Created a glove garden to start sprouting seeds
Watched Magic School Bus: Get Planted
Math:
Calendar Binder
Number Talk
Reviewed 3D shapes
Built 3D shapes using playdoh and toothpicks
Religion:
Mass