Description
How does a seed grow into a plant? Benny the Bean shows preschool, pre-K and kindergarten learners, ages 3 to 6, every step from seed to sprout, seedling and plant. Plant life cycle worksheets cover parts of a plant, counting seeds, sequencing and a bean journal for real growing observations.
Ideal for a spring planting week in the classroom, homeschool or daycare, with a 5 day lesson plan, a wall poster that grows one stage a day, a Life Cycle Wheel craft and extension pages with a fifth stage, the pod. The worksheets save you prep time.
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This unit is part of the Life Cycles Mega Bundle, 12 science units for the whole year. Get the bundle and save big: CLICK HERE
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WHAT'S INCLUDED
► You will get 60+ pages, including: ⤵
▴ Preschool & Pre-K and kindergarten black and white worksheets: ⤵
→ Plant Life Cycle, cut and paste (4 stages)
→ Plant Life Cycle, cut and paste (3 stages)
→ Trace the Word
→ Trace the Words
→ Color and Label
→ What Comes Next?
→ Parts of a Plant
→ Count the Seeds
→ Help the Bee
→ Small to Big
→ Draw the Life Cycle
→ My Bean Journal (observation)
→ My Plant, draw and write
▴ Teacher Guide with a 5 day lesson plan and assessment pages
▴ Benny the Bean, a read-aloud story in color
▴ Wall life cycle poster to build with the class
▴ Mini poster, flash cards and a chant with motions
▴ My Plant Life Cycle Book (emergent reader)
▴ Pattern coloring pages
▴ Life Cycle Wheel craft with a finished example and templates, plus a color teacher wheel to laminate
▴ Headband and certificate
▴ Extension pages with a fifth stage, the pod
► Pages in US Letter size (8.5 x 11 inches). For A4 paper, choose Fit to Page when printing.
WHY TEACHERS LOVE IT
The story explains germination the way young learners can see it: water wakes up the seed, the seed coat protects it, the root comes out first and then the shoot, the seed leaves feed the young plant, and the flowers become pods with new seeds inside.
A 3 stage cut and paste lets younger children join the same lesson with a smaller step.
Bold lines, large pictures and short directions make every page easy to read, including for children who use visual supports.
✥ PERFECT FOR
◆ Homeschool spring science
◆ Preschool, Pre-K and Kindergarten classrooms
◆ Daycare and childcare programs
◆ Science centers and classroom gardens
◆ Spring, planting and Earth Day theme weeks
◆ Small groups
◆ Independent practice
◆ Early finishers
★ SKILLS PRACTICED
◆ Sequencing the stages of a bean plant
◆ Science vocabulary: seed coat, root, sprout, seedling, pod
◆ Observing and recording growth in the bean journal
◆ Counting seeds to 7 and matching numerals
◆ Predicting what comes next and ordering by size
◆ Cutting, gluing, tracing and coloring for fine motor strength
◆ Oral language through the chant and the Life Cycle Wheel
✥ SAVE BIG WITH THE MEGA BUNDLE
Teach a new life cycle every season with all 12 units in one download: pumpkin, apple, turkey, penguin, robin, plant, butterfly, frog, chicken, ladybug, bee and sea turtle. CLICK HERE to see everything inside the Life Cycles Mega Bundle and save big.
TERMS
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