Vocabulary

ABCDAppleBerryBud CropDig

EFGHEarthFlowerFruitGreenGrowHoney

IJKLLeavesLive

MNOPQMossPetalPlantPollen

RSTUVRootSeedStemSunTree

WXYZWater

Students will write a sentence with each word and illustrate the definition of the word.

Word Wall

Resources

Non 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.

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.

Interactive Writing•Time frame of our seeds to grow into plants.•How Plants grow ? Why we need plants

Object and Word Sorts•Types of plants •Food from plants •Animals that eat plants

Language Experience Approach•Draw a picture about a family of plants and write a sentence describing it.

Writing

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