Kindergarden - Plants

Plants: Supplemental Guide 3C | The Life Cycle of a Plant 93

More nutrients it needs

To become a sapling

Then a tree

And when it dies, the soil it’ll be.

My Plants Pages

• Give students their My Plants Pages booklet.


• Show students an example of a completed Plants Page for Lesson 3.


• Have them turn to the next blank page and write the number “3”
  on the bottom corner. Tell students to draw something they learned
  about from the life cycle of plants.


• Choose a few students to dictate what they have drawn. Be sure to
  repeat back to them what you have written on their paper.

➶ Above and Beyond: If they are able, students may label their
drawing.

• Have students share their Plant Page with their partner, in small
  groups, or with home language peers. Encourage them to comment
  on each other’s picture. Then direct students to go back to their
  picture and revise it based on your comments or the comments of
  their peers.

Vocabular y Review

Seed

1. You have heard the word seed before, like in this sentence, “The adult
   plant will make more seed. New plants can grow from the seeds.”


2. A seed is the part of a plant from which a new plant can grow.


3. Tell your partner why seeds are important to the survival of the
   plant. Use the word seeds when you explain. Try to use complete
   sentences. I will call on a few students to share their explanation.

Sprout

1. You have heard the word sprout before, like in this sentence, “Once
   the seed sprouts, it will quickly grow into a seedling.”


2. When something sprouts, it begins to grow. Sprout can also mean a
   young plant.