Growing Things
Books
The Carrot Seed by KrausPlanting a Rainbow by EhlertFlower Garden by BuntingRain by Kalan Songs
You are my sunshine The Isty-Bitsy SpiderRain, Rain, Go AwayActivities
Plant seedsDraw rainbowsMake flowers out of paper platesMake cherry blossoms or forsythia by giving each child a piece of paper with a tree or branches drawn on it and little squares of pink or yellow tissue paper. Just run a glue stick along each branch and have the kids stick on the paper with their fingers.Five Little Flowers Finger PlayFive Little Flowers (Hold up one hand)
Standing in the sun
See their heads nodding (move fingers)
Bowing one by one (Fold fingers down one at a time)
Down, down, down
Falls the gentle rain (Make rain with other hand)
And the five little flowers
Lift up their heads again (hold up finger flowers again)
Snacks
Sunflower seedsCarrotsApples, pears or oranges cut cross-wise so they look like flowers