Gardening: Vegetables, Fruits, Flowers, Gardening

Vegetables
10         -Letter Recognition  Letter V worksheet, vegetable peels on the outline of a V on back of wks
            -Color Page
1030    -Vegetable Graph- Place vegetables on the graph that are the same in columns on the graph
            -Making Pizzas-  Make felt pizzas with different felt vegetables and toppings and use order cards to know how many of each item to put on the pizza (order cards have picture of item and a number of how many to put on the pizza)
1100    -Carrot Stems-  Place appropriate amount of construction paper green stems out of carrots onto triangle carrots using construction paper. Have 1 stem out of the 1 carrot, 2 stems out of the 2 carrot etc up until about 5.
            -Homemade Potato Heads- Make with potato and other vegetables using toothpicks.
1130    -Celery Science-  Place celery in colored water and allow it to sit for several days while it soaks up the water and watch the celery change color.  Learn that plants need water to grow and eat.
            -Vegetable Stamps- Make stamps from potatoes and carrots and dip them in paint and stamp them on butcher paper.
Snack  Ants on a Log

Fruits 
10        -Letter Recognition:  Letter f worksheet, paint fruit juice on the outline of a F on back of wks
            -Color Page
1030    -I Spy: Find the certain fruits and vegetables and count how many of each.
            -Fruit/Veg Grocery Bags: Divide Fruit and Vegetables into their appropriate bag using actual fruits and vegetable and cut paste worksheet
11        -Floating/Sinking:  Place different fruits and vegetables in the water and see if they float or sink.
            -Dissecting: Take apart an apple and name parts- fruit (flesh), stem, core, peel, seeds
1130    - Rainbow Sorting:  Take pictures of fruits and veggies cut out from store grocery ads and organize them in the colors of the rainbow.
            -Watermelon Purse: Make watermelon purse out of yarn and paper plates while watching fruit songs off of youtube from busy beavers and others
Snack Apple Cars with raising for wheels and cut the slice of the apple to form a car.

Flowers
10        -Letter Recognition:  Letter f worksheet, glue flowers on the outline of a F on back of wks
            -Color Page
1030    -Pom pom flowers- glue how many pom poms around the numbered flower.  Flower #1 glue one pom pom, flower #2 glue two pom poms around it...etc
            -Flower to stem- match numbered stem with numbered flower.  Have cutouts with number on stem and flower and have kid match stem with flower.  Can also do dots on stem or flower with number on the other representing the dots.
            -Flower patterns-have different size flowers and colors and make a pattern with them and have kid continue on the pattern.
11        -Flower shape petals-glue triangles around triangle shaped flower, glue rectangles around rectangle shaped flower
            -Flower science- Worksheet that says what a flower needs to live: water, sun, dirt, not candy and hamburgers.
1130 -  -Flower sensory bin-fill pan with beans to represent dirt and plastic utensils to dig around in it and containers and fake flowers, fake snakes, fake frogs, and anything gardening like
            -Flower walk-  find flowers on a walk around the house
Snack: dirt cups

Gardening
10        -Letter Recognition:  Letter g worksheet, glue dirt on the outline of a g on back of wks
            -Color Page
1030    -Make Dirt:  make it with baking soda and water and food coloring, draw letters in it
            -Carrot Sight Words:  Write words on the back of carrot cutouts and place in sensory bin.  Dig up carrots and say what you see.
11        -Flower Science- Review what a plant needs to grow
            -Baggie Beans- Use ziploc bags, bean seeds, cotton balls.  Dip cotton balls in water and place in ziploc bags and place bean seeds in bags.  Dont make cotton balls too wet and soaked and place beans on top. Maybe squeeze some water out of cotton balls.
1130     -Tops/Bottoms-Learn about how plant can grow above and below ground and glue plants on a paper plate with a dirt line and plants growing above, below, and in the middle like corn.
             -Sorting Seeds-  Gather 5 different kinds of seeds and mix them in some fake dirt or sensory bin beans.  Find seeds and sort into an egg carton.  I personally took a portion of the beans out and mixed the seeds into it in the egg carton tray that was the lid part.

Snack:Try different fruits and vegetables and use a chart to check if you like it or dont or glue picture of fruit or vegetable on side you like or dont.