May 2026

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Listen and Read

Extend the Lesson

Game
Build a Plant

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Skill Sheets and Lesson Plan

Depending on your program, you might use printables as a welcome activity, send-home pages, or in a center.

What We Are Learning

Social and Life Skills Focus:

Children will follow the steps involved in growing a garden.

 

Science Focus:

plants, gardening

 

Page 4 skill:

counting

 

Vocabulary:

garden, trowel, soil, seed, watering can, sprouting, harvest, rake, cultivator

 

Skills We’re Practicing:

readaloud comprehension, group discussion, concepts of print, rhyming, critical thinking, vocabulary, counting

Standards

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