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What changes happen in spring? What do animals and people do? When we plant seeds in spring, how do they grow? Find out the answers to these questions and more in this week-long spring unit for kindergarten and first grade! This comprehensive unit includes detailed daily lesson plans with literature suggestions. It incorporates science, reading, writing, math, handwriting, and art. It also includes QR codes and links to videos that complement the unit study.
Click on the PREVIEW to read each lesson plan, see the Week-at-a-Glance planning sheet, as well as examples of printables and art projects.
Teacher Features You’ll Love
- Detailed daily lesson plans
- Week-at-a-glance planning guide
- Guide for stretching the unit over two weeks
- Key concepts and objectives
- Extensive literature lists
- Video links and QR codes
- Differentiated versions of many math and literacy sheets
- Activity directions and printable templates
What’s Covered in the Unit?
Day 1: Hello, Spring!
- Goodbye winter, hello spring!
- Spring senses
- Spring emergent readers
- Spring A to Z
Day 2: Weather and People in Spring
- Spring weather changes and activities people do in spring
- All about rain
- What I wear in spring
- My favorite thing about spring
Day 3: Animals in spring
- Four animal behaviors in spring
- Bird's nest STEM challenge
- Hatching chick craft or eggs in a nest craft
Day 4: Plants and Trees in Spring
- Plant life cycle
- Plant life cycle craft
- Sprout beans in a jar
Day 5: Spring Fun
- Dirt and worms snack
- Rainy day art project
- Spring scavenger hunt
- Celebrate the season outdoor activities
Math Connections
- Help Me Hatch! math review game (use with math flashcards)
- Counting within 10, 20, and 100
- Counting by 2, 5, and 10
- Comparing amounts in two sets
- Comparing numbers within 100 (with and without >, <, and = signs)
- Addition and subtraction within 10, 20, and 100 (no regrouping)
- Making ten
- Using a number line to add and subtract within 10 and 20
- Place value: tens and ones
- Graphing
- Counting coins to one dollar
- 2D shapes: rhombus/diamond
- Time to the hour and half hour
- Word problems
Literacy Connections
- Spring word wall with real pictures
- “The Colors of Spring” emergent reader (includes digital Google Slides version)
- "I Know It's Spring" emergent reader
- Help Me Hatch! literacy review game
- Beginning, medial, and ending letter sounds
- ai vowel team (rain)
- -ug word family (bug: dug, hug, jug, mug, rug, tug)
- -est word family (nest: best, pest, rest, test, vest, west)
- -ing word family (spring: king, ring, sing, wing, swing, sting)
- Sight words
- Action verbs
- Beginning, middle and end- beginning story writing
- Making predictions
- Correct a mixed-up sentence
- How to Plant a Garden writing prompt
- A Spring Surprise story writing prompt
- Wacky Weather writing prompt
- Splash Into Spring! book to create throughout the unit
This unit follows the same format as my Fall Unit for K-1 and Winter Unit for K-1. I plan on creating a summer unit that is similar. Look for it before summer 2022!
Questions? Feel free to email me at primarythemepark@gmail.com or contact me through the "Product Q & A" tab here.
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What others say
Description
What changes happen in spring? What do animals and people do? When we plant seeds in spring, how do they grow? Find out the answers to these questions and more in this week-long spring unit for kindergarten and first grade! This comprehensive unit includes detailed daily lesson plans with literature suggestions. It incorporates science, reading, writing, math, handwriting, and art. It also includes QR codes and links to videos that complement the unit study.
Click on the PREVIEW to read each lesson plan, see the Week-at-a-Glance planning sheet, as well as examples of printables and art projects.
Teacher Features You’ll Love
- Detailed daily lesson plans
- Week-at-a-glance planning guide
- Guide for stretching the unit over two weeks
- Key concepts and objectives
- Extensive literature lists
- Video links and QR codes
- Differentiated versions of many math and literacy sheets
- Activity directions and printable templates
What’s Covered in the Unit?
Day 1: Hello, Spring!
- Goodbye winter, hello spring!
- Spring senses
- Spring emergent readers
- Spring A to Z
Day 2: Weather and People in Spring
- Spring weather changes and activities people do in spring
- All about rain
- What I wear in spring
- My favorite thing about spring
Day 3: Animals in spring
- Four animal behaviors in spring
- Bird's nest STEM challenge
- Hatching chick craft or eggs in a nest craft
Day 4: Plants and Trees in Spring
- Plant life cycle
- Plant life cycle craft
- Sprout beans in a jar
Day 5: Spring Fun
- Dirt and worms snack
- Rainy day art project
- Spring scavenger hunt
- Celebrate the season outdoor activities
Math Connections
- Help Me Hatch! math review game (use with math flashcards)
- Counting within 10, 20, and 100
- Counting by 2, 5, and 10
- Comparing amounts in two sets
- Comparing numbers within 100 (with and without >, <, and = signs)
- Addition and subtraction within 10, 20, and 100 (no regrouping)
- Making ten
- Using a number line to add and subtract within 10 and 20
- Place value: tens and ones
- Graphing
- Counting coins to one dollar
- 2D shapes: rhombus/diamond
- Time to the hour and half hour
- Word problems
Literacy Connections
- Spring word wall with real pictures
- “The Colors of Spring” emergent reader (includes digital Google Slides version)
- "I Know It's Spring" emergent reader
- Help Me Hatch! literacy review game
- Beginning, medial, and ending letter sounds
- ai vowel team (rain)
- -ug word family (bug: dug, hug, jug, mug, rug, tug)
- -est word family (nest: best, pest, rest, test, vest, west)
- -ing word family (spring: king, ring, sing, wing, swing, sting)
- Sight words
- Action verbs
- Beginning, middle and end- beginning story writing
- Making predictions
- Correct a mixed-up sentence
- How to Plant a Garden writing prompt
- A Spring Surprise story writing prompt
- Wacky Weather writing prompt
- Splash Into Spring! book to create throughout the unit
This unit follows the same format as my Fall Unit for K-1 and Winter Unit for K-1. I plan on creating a summer unit that is similar. Look for it before summer 2022!
Questions? Feel free to email me at primarythemepark@gmail.com or contact me through the "Product Q & A" tab here.
You might also like:
Thanks so much for stopping by!
