34 Plants: Supplemental Guide 1C | Introduction to Plants
students can cut out pictures from the magazine and categorize them as
living or nonliving and glue or tape them onto a chart.
Reviewing the Read-Aloud 10 minutes
What Have We Learned?
Show image 1A-1: Living things
- Invite students to come up one at a time and identify which of the
living things are plants and which are not plants. - Ask students: “How do you know that plants are living?
- Plants are living because they need food, water, and air. Plants also
reproduce or make more of themselves.
- Plants are living because they need food, water, and air. Plants also
- Review the names of the different kinds of plants you have prepared.
Songs and Chants - Remind students that they heard about plants and the different
environments plants live in. Remind them that not all plants live in the
same environment. - Use the Songs and Chants for Plants in Different Environments to
review the different types of plants and the environments they live in.
This song also reviews the needs of every plant—food, water, air, and
light. These songs can be sung to the tune of “I’m a Little Teapot.”
Note: As much as possible, add motions to the song. For example,
when you sing “I’m a very tall tree,” you could have students stand up
and stretch their hands up as high as they can.