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.
Monday:
Reading
Introduced to our new sight words, so & were
Looked through our new emergent reader, Planting the Garden, for “Secrets”
Read through our emergent reader, Planting the Garden
Fill in the blank short i worksheet
Reviewed Living and Nonliving things
Completed a sorting worksheet
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
Reviewed number bonds
Completed a number bond worksheet (decomposing numbers)
Religion
Completed 3 pages in our Promise workbook - God keeps His promises.
Tuesday:
Reading
Fill in the Missing word short i worksheet
Wrote a description of the what we would plant in our garden
Illustrated our writing
Math
Calendar
Reviewed our 3D shapes
Played solid shape match up game
Religion
Completed 3 pages in our Promise workbook - God takes care of us and we need to take care people and the earth.
Wednesday:
Reading
Word Unscramble worksheet - short o
Made soil for snack
Collected data from friends about our soil snack
Analyzed our own data and answered questions
Math
Calendar
Reviewed number bonds
Completed a number bond worksheet
Religion
Completed 3 pages in our Promise workbook - We talked about the 7 Sacraments with a special focus on Baptism.
Thursday:
Reading:
Fill in the Missing word short o worksheet
Listened to the story, Gus Grows a Plant & Sunflower House
Reviewed the needs of a plant
Discussed the life cycle of a plant
Created a glove garden to start sprouting seeds
Math
Calendar
Dice Addition Game
Religion
Watched a video of St Bernadette and colored her picture - Her feast day was April 16th.
Friday:
Reading
Word Unscramble worksheet - short o
Write the Word short o worksheet
BeeBots - short vowel mats & number mats
Math
Calendar
Reviewed 3D shapes
Built 3D shapes using playdoh and toothpicks
Religion
Mass