Our Blossoming Year

1. Preparing our Soil
                                                           
Concept: Caring
Being There:
Country Adventure
Pumpkins
Literacy Centers

    Brown Bear, Brown Bear
( Baa, Baa Black Sheep)
  animals,
colors,
5  Senses

    Big Red Barn
( Mary Had a Little Lamb)
Farm animals, colors, time


2. Sowing Our Seeds                                                                 
Concept: Cooperation
Being There:
Read with Red
Literacy Centers

The Little Engine That Could
(Down by The Station) 
Qualitative/Quantitative, shapes

Corduroy
(Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear)
 Sequencing, Cause/Effect

The Mitten
(1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Once I caught a Bear Alive)
Rhyming, Time, Winter


4.Growing Our Garden

Concept: Effort
   Being There: 
   Splash Day
Vegetable Gardens
    Literacy Centers
                                                                                          
   Jump Frog, Jump
          ( Over in the Pond)    
Sequencing, counting       
  
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
(Jack and Jill)
Following Directions,  
Cause/Effect,
Summer

Silly Sally
(This Little Piggy Went to the Market)
Qualitative and quantitative concepts


3.Watering Our Crop

Concept: Responsibility
Being There: 
Riverbanks Zoo
Literacy Centers

Jamberry
(Hot Cross Buns)
rhyming, counting
Spring

The Napping House
(Deedle, Deedle, Dumpling)
Sequencing,
“WH” questions,