Berenstain Bears Section I, Week 3

Onto week 3 on Lily's kindergarten unit built around The Berenstain Bears Big Book of Science and Nature.  This week we are moving on to themes of "summer," plants, gardening, 4th of July and weather of how to read a thermometer and thunder/lightning.

Monday:

• Read Berenstain Bears Big Book of Science and Nature pages 40-53. 
• Summer printables from Evan-Moor Teacher Filebox
• Craft:  Sun Catchers shaped like flip flops from Oriental Trading (all the kids will do this one)
• Draw Write Now Book 1:  Draw Pig picture.

Tuesday:

•  The Year at Maple Hill Farm:  Months of July-September
•  Months copywork - Write out month names of July-September
•  Read The Magic School Bus Plants Seeds 
•  Draw Write Now Book 1:  Copy the first sentence about pigs onto her picture.

Wednesday:

• Talk about the Fourth of July and Labor Day holidays. 
• Fourth of July Packet from Evan-Moor Teacher Filebox
• Draw Write Now Book 1:  Copy the second sentence about pigs onto her picture.
• Usborne Complete Book of Farmyard Tales book and audio CD

Thursday:

• Read The Magic School Bus Gets Planted
• Do some gardening and make a drawing for her Nature Journal
• Start reading Lightning:  It's Electrifying with Noah also

Friday:

• DK Eye Wonder Weather book pages 26-27
• Finish Lightning:  It's Electrifying from Thursday with Noah
• Berenstain Bears book on how to read a thermometer
• Printable on reading thermometers from here