Unit 6: Things That Grow

In unit 6, children explore how living grow, using observations, experiments and books. Through story readings, children hear about ducks who find a special home, a new baby on a farm, a boy who grows from  babyhood to school aged, and a girl who discovers the joy of growing vegetables. Children continue to learn about letters, sounds, and rhyming words, and participate in many other mathematics, science, music, poetry, and art activities.

Theme Concepts:

Living things grow and have life cycles.
Living things reproduce, and the offspring are the same kind of plant or animals as the parent.
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.

Story Time Books:
The Ugly Vegetable
Make Way For Ducklings
I Heard Said the Bird
Bigger

Small Group Activities:
Preparing vegetables for soup
Planting Grass
Mother's Day Activity
Paper Plate Ducks
Sequencing Ducks from smallest to largest
Sequencing the life cycle of a bean sprout
1:1 math sheet
Measuring with unifix cubes