Plants

For the past week, my students have been learning about plants.  It has taken all of my energy to get my very ready for Spring Break to start first graders on board to learn.  Our Spring Break will start on Friday, two more days!

We have done a lot of reading and illustrating about plants.  I'm going to share a couple of the books that we read, I've created them and have them listed in my TeachersPayTeachers store.

Last week, we read a a book that I created that goes over the process of how you plant a seed.  My students really enjoyed this book.  This was a great sequencing book that led into our center writing for the week, in which they wrote about how they would plant a garden and what they would plant in their garden.  Here is the link for our steps to plant a garden reader Planting a Garden Reader

 This week, we are working on the lifecyle of a plant.  This book was a little more challenging for my first graders.  For this book, I used vocabulary like photosynthesis, chlorophyll, and embryo (these were words that they struggled with).  My students had fun reading this book and were able to understand how something as small as a tiny seed could end up as a big plant that could then make new seeds.  Tomorrow, we will be working on one of the comprehension pages that I created for this book.  Here is the link for our Lifecycle reader: Plant Lifecycle Reader

The rest of this week is going to be crazy.  Tomorrow looks like it will be another indoor recess day because of all the rain that fell today.  Thursday is Field Day, my students will be able to be outside participating in the games in the morning.  It is always fun trying to get them to focus and do anything in the afternoon and it might be a little more of a challenge since Spring Break will start on Friday.

Amber