PreK for ME - Unit 6 - Things that Grow Links

	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5
	Full Day Part Day Center Language Supports	Full Day Part Day	Full Day Part Day	Full Day	Full Day
Art Studio	Above & Below Garden Soil (Resource)	Chinese Calligraphy (Resource) Community Garden	Creating Cars (Resource 1) (Resource 2) Nests
Blocks	Building a Garden (Resource)		Make Way for Ducklings	Bridges (Resource)
Discovery	Comparing Capacity	Preparing Soil	Building Nests
Dramatization	Garden Center (Resource)		Soup (Resource 1)	Kindergarten
LFOAI	What Does a Seed Need Garden Design Caring for Gardens	Chinese Calligraphy Community Gardens (Resource) Desert Gardens (Resource)	Edible Eggs (Resource) Oviparous Animals Wheels & Tires (Resource)	Bridges (Resource) Life Cycle Drawings (resource) Look at PreK Now
Library	Researching Gardens (Resource)	What Part of the Plant Are We Eating (Resource)	Researching Oviparous Animals (Resource)	Researching Kindergarten
Manipulatives	Sorting Beans		Make Way for Ducklings- Story Sequencing (Resource)	Oviparous Animal Name-Letter Match (Resource)
Math (Overview) Materials & Books	Small Group 1: Flower Pattern Mural Small Group 2: Tangram Gardens (Resource) Large Group: Our People Flower Garden	Small Group 1: Counting on Vegetables (Resource) Small Group 2: One Big Salad Creature Books Large Group: Big Salad Number Hop	Small Group 1: How Do I Measure (Resource) Small Group 2: Growing Collages Large Group: Inch by Inch	Small Group 1: The Magic Box Small Group 2: Garden Designers (Resource 1) (Resource 2) (Resource 3) Small Group 3: Maine Coastal Botanical Garden Large Group: Swirl by Swirl	Small Group Suggestions Small & Large Group Activities Large Group: Counting Book Read-a-Thon & Fishing for Numbers Large Group: Math in Kindergarten
Read Aloud	Zinnia’s Flower Garden The Ugly Vegetables	Community Soup	Make Way for Ducklings Bigger (Printable Book)
Small Group	Seed Experiment Planting Seeds	Vegetable Memory (Resource)	Bird Feeders (Resource) Rhyming Games (Resource)	Dear PreK Letters Story Sequencing
SWPLN	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5
Writing	Garden Signs (Resource 1) (Resource 2)	Diagrams (Resource 1) (Resource 2)
Technology	Sorting Beans	Diagrams Community & Desert Gardens	Make Way for Ducklings Story Sequencing Materials for Nests	Researching Kindergarten Bridges
Outdoor Learning Nature Extensions Materials Nature Books	Gardening- Will it Grow	Animal Life Cycles	Macroinvertebrates	Tree Life cycle	Flower Parts-Parts of a Seed