2/3 Class Schedule: Plants

Theme: Plants

Literature:

• Round the Garden by Omri Glaser
• From Seed to Plant by Gail Gibbons
• Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens

Art:

• Watercolor Flowers
• Germinating Bean/Pumpkin Seeds
• From Seed to Plant Craft
• Carrot in a Bag
• Dandelion Cotton Art

Fine Motor:

• Steady Hand Control Game
• Cutting Shapes

Math/Science:

• Matching/Sorting Flowers
• Counting Carrot Seeds Game
• Estimating the Growth of Seeds/Measuring the Seeds

Sensory:

• Seed Sensory Bin 

Music/Rhymes:

•   Planting Season: 
• • "First you take the seed and you plant it in the ground." (Mime taking a seed and planting it in your other hand, balled up in a fist.) 
  "Next a rain cloud comes and waters all around." (Keep fist with seed same, use other hand to simulate a rain cloud raining down on seed.)
  "Next the sun shines brightly, without a sound." (Keep fist with seed same, use other hand to shine down by moving fingers over seed.)
  "And in just a few days... a flower is found!" (Move fist with seed up through other hand and open like a flower. This is actually the sign for "new" or "flower.") 
• I'm a Little Seed (Tune: I'm a Little Teapot)
• • Sung to the Tune: I'm a Little Teapot
  I plant a little seed in the cold, cold ground.
  Out comes the yellow sun, big and round.
  Down come the raindrops soft and slow(ly)
  Up comes the flower grow, grow, grow!