Today we will talk about the Next Generation Science Standards and how you can teach them in your kindergarten class. We will also discuss how to incorporate engineering in kindergarten.

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Product Description

This Insect thematic unit is strategically linked to academic core standards. It is divided into areas of literature, media, music, art, literacy activities, math activities, worksheets, science activities, creative writing, word wall words, and guided reading. The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation. Studying insects has never been so much fun.

Literacy Activities:

Fly Away Fly: Letter Identification

Fly Away Words: Sight Word Recognition

Buggy Bug Match: Sight Word (or Alphabet) Match

Bug Rhymes: Matching Rhymes

Ladybug Spots: Recognizing Words in Speech.

Letters Buzzing In My Name: Recognizing/Writing Letters In Names

Independent Activities

Trace & Write Letters A-Z

Math Activities:

Catching Insects: Sorting

My Bug Collection: Addition

Bug-a-Boo: Geometric Shapes

Construct a Bug: Exploring Probability.

Bugs Count: Developing Number Sense 

Science Activities

Creating an Insect Zoo

Insect Memory: Matching Identical Insects.

Insect Observation: Observing Features

Insect Magnification:Using Scientific Tools

Independent Activities

Insect Body Parts

Songs/Fingerplays

Freddy Flea

The Firefly & Other Insects

The Bees

Guided Reading Books

The Insects- Level A

The Insects- Level C

Little Ladybugs

Writing Prompts/Word Wall

Our Insect Zoo

All About Lady Bugs

Insect Word Wall Words

Art Projects

Ladybug Ladybug

My Insect

Baby Bumblebee

Paint a Bug

Insect STEM Skills

Independent Writing Activities

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Product Description

Strategically Linked to the common core, this best-selling Thematic plant unit is divided into areas of literature, media, music, art, literacy activities, math activities, worksheets, science activities, creative writing, word wall words, and guided reading for cross-curricular learning.

The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation. The lessons are fun and engaging and will leave your classroom or homeschool students begging for more.

Math Center Activities

Flowering Math: Joining Sets

Watermelon War: Comparing Numerals

Garden Party: Demonstrating Subtraction 

Counting Seeds: Count out items to match a given number.

Planting Seeds: Making Combinations to 10 

Adding Flowers

Garden Takeaway

Plant a Garden Ways to Make 8

Reading Center Activities:

Flower Garden: Reading Sight Word & CVC Word Sentences (or alphabet recognition).

Tip Toe Through the Tulips: Alphabet letter sound fluency (or sight word fluency)

Run Rabbit Run: Alphabet Letter Fluency

In the Garden: Naming Sight Words

Greenhouse Words: Reading Sight Words

Blooming Words: Isolating Phonemes & Writing CVC Words From Dictation

The Garden Show: Writing Color Words

Science Activities

Building a Science Center

A Seed Grows: Planting a seed in a bag

Kitchen Science: Edible Dirt

Plant Parts: Observation of Plants

The Thirsty Stem: Capillary Action In Plants

Seed Sorting: Using the Scientific Process

Art Projects

Plant Parts: Portfolio Sample

Artful Flowers

Mother's Day Flower

Fingerprint Flowers

Songs

Watermelon Pie 

Inch by Inch (adapted) by David Mallet

Plant A Seed

Guided Reading

The Little Seed

Writing

Plant Word Wall Words

Prompts: All About Seeds,What I Know About Plants

I Can Writing: Label it, list it card it

Pond Thematic Unit

Pond Independent Writing Center Activities

Spring Themed Guided Readers

Spring Themed Intervention Games

Lamb and Lion Spring Themed Activities

Each activity is clearly written, easy to use, and needs limited preparation. The lessons are fun and engaging and will leave your students begging for more!