122 Plants: Supplemental Guide 5A| Deciduous Trees
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5 A
Introducing the Read-Aloud 15 minutes
What Have We Learned?
Show image 7A-1: Johnny Appleseed- Review with students domain concepts about what plants need to
grow in the context of what they heard about Johnny Appleseed.
Say to students: “Tell your partner what the apple seeds that Johnny
Appleseed planted would need in order to grow.”- The apple seed needs air, food, water, and light to grow.
- Then encourage students to share where they think the apple seed
could get those things.- The apple gets air from the air around it.
- The apple seed gets food from the nutrients in the seed, in the
soil, and through photosynthesis. - The apple seed gets water from the water in the soil, from the rain,
and if someone waters it. - The apple seed gets light from the sun.
My Plants Pages
- Give students their My Plants Pages booklet.
- Show students an example of completed Plants Page for Lesson 4.
- Have them turn to next blank page and write the number “4” on the
bottom corner. Tell students to draw a picture related to Johnny
Appleseed. - 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.