OWL unit 6
May 18th is our family party at 10:30
May 23rd is our conference day. It is a regular school day for students.
During the months of May and June, we will begin our final unit for the school year “Things That Grow”. In this unit, children explore how living things grow, using observations, experiments and books. In this unit’s stories, children will hear about ducks who find a special home, a new baby on a farm, a boy who grows from a baby to a school-age boy and a girl who discovers the joys of growing vegetables.
Theme concepts for this unit:
- Living things grow and have life cycles
- Living things reproduce, and the offspring are the same kind of plant or animal as the parents
- Living things need food, water and proper living conditions to survive
- Immature living things need special care
- Living things interact, and among animals, there are predators and prey
The Ugly Vegetables by: Grace Lin
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by: Eric Carle
Make Way for Ducklings by:Robert McCloskey
Bigger by:Daniel Kirk
I Heard Said the Bird by: Polly Berrrien Berends
Farfallina and Marcel by: Holly Keller
Small Groups for this unit may include:
- following directions
- observing caterpillars and butterflies (They are starting to change already!)
- size sequencing flowers
- seed patterns
- bird feeder bracelets
- 10 frame counting
- color the flowers book
- butterfly crafts
- Where is the butterfly? positional book
- Size sorting
- planting seeds
