Kindergarden - Plants

92 Plants: Supplemental Guide 3C | The Life Cycle of a Plant

Reviewing the Read-Aloud 10 minutes

What Have We Learned?

• Ask students the following questions to review content from the
  lesson:
  
  
  • What are the beginning of new plants?
  
  
  • Seeds are the beginning of new plants.
  
  
  • Which plant has a longer life cycle, a sunflower or an oak tree?
  
  
  • An oak tree has a longer life cycle.
    Songs and Chants
  
  
  
  


• Remind students that they heard about the life cycle of two types of
  plants—a sunflower and an oak tree.


• Use the Songs and Chants for The Life Cycle of a Plant to review the
  life cycles of a sunflower and a tree. This song can be sung to the
  tune of “I’m a Little Teapot.”
  Note: Prior to singing, you may choose to have students come up
  with motions to represent the different stages in the life cycle of a
  plant.
  Life Cycle of a Plant
   Show image 3A-11: Life cycle of a sunflower
  Here’s a plant’s life cycle,

First is the seed.

Out germinates a seedling,

More nutrients it needs

To grow to an adult plant

That makes more seeds,

So new plants grow eventually.

 Show image 3A-5: Acorn and oak

Here’s a tree’s life cycle,

First is the seed.

Out germinates a seedling,