Vocabulary Students will write a sentence with each word and illustrate the definition of the word. Word Wall ABCD Apple Berry Bud Crop Dig EFGH Earth Flower Fruit Green Grow Honey IJKL Leaves Live MNOPQ Moss Petal Plant Pollen RSTUV Root Seed Stem Sun Tree WXYZ Water
Resources Non Fiction Fiction Colin Walker(1992) Seeds Grow. Bothell, WA. The Wright group. Chris Oxlade(1998) Flowering Plants. New York:Childrens Press Franklin Watts(1999) Plant Life. Danbury Ct: Grolier Carol Lerner(1989) Plant Families. New York: Morrow Junior Books. Fiction Eric Carle.(1987) The Tiny Seed, Saxonville, MA: Picture Book Studio Moira Butterfield.(1992) Flower. New York: Simon &Schuster Janet Riehecky.(1990) What plants Give us The Gift Of Life. Chicago, IL: Children's Press Jane Belk Moncure(1990) What plants need The Rabbit who knew. Chicago, Il: Children's Press
Reading Students will be allowed to choose a book that is about plants and read it silently for 20min after math. Students will partner up and read with their partners for 15min.
Writing Object and Word Sorts Types of plants Food from plants Animals that eat plants Interactive Writing Time frame of our seeds to grow into plants. How Plants grow ? Why we need plants Literacy Skills and Strategies Make Posters of new words learned Write in our entries in our plant journals Make an alphabet book using the new words we have learned during out plant unit. Language Experience Approach Draw a picture about a family of plants and write a sentence describing it.
Projects Plant a seed in a cup and water it each day and see how long it takes to grow into a plant. Create a Poem about Flowers Draw a picture of what the seed may grow into to
Field Trips Visit the Dallas arboretum Visit the green house at TWU