Garden
Math
Baggie Garden Graph - When doing the “Baggie Garden” activity, graph how many children think their seed will grow and how many think it will not. Graph their prediction and their results.
Garden Addition - We will use fruits and vegetables as manipulative for counting and adding.
Garden counting worksheets
Science
Flowers Food - Put a white carnation in a cup of colored water (darker color the better) and let your kids see how flowers drink water (the flower will take get its color changed as it takes in the water)
Baggie Garden - Wet a paper towel, and drop it along with six white beans into a Ziploc bag. Seal the baggie (leaving air in the bag) and put it in your window. Your children will love watching the beans grow.
Art
Flower Footprint – using finger paints we will take each child’s foot print and let them add the stem and leaves as well as any other decorations to make their footprint into a flower.
Paper Plate Sunflower - Give each student a paper plate. Have students attach yellow construction paper petals around the paper plate. They can then add sunflower seeds or oatmeal to the seed of the flower.
Glitter “G” – use Glue and Glitter to decorate a letter “G”
Language Arts
The letter “G” - We will be working all week with the letter “G”. “G” sounds, words that begin with “G”, and practice writing the letter “G”.
Grape coloring sheet with upper-case and lower-case “G”
Books
Busy in the garden / poems by George Shannon ; pictures by Sam Williams.
Whose garden is it? / Mary Ann Hoberman ; illustrated by Jane Dyer.
In my garden : a counting book ; by Ward Schumaker.
Toot & Puddle : how does your garden grow? / based on the teleplay by Kim Segal ; adapted by Laura F. Marsh.
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