SPRING TIME THEMATIC UNIT

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A great way to welcome the season of Spring is with this Spring Time Thematic Unit.

This resource includes spring thematic lessons, activities, poems, songs and centers for your little learners.

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Spring Time Thematic Unit Learning Resources

Week 26 Plans
This is a template for lesson plans during spring week of school. Pick and choose what ideas and resources work for your learners.

Spring – Whole Group
These resources can be used during whole group instruction for a spring theme. They include a poem, word cards, tracing page and table sign in sheets.

Spring Interactive Poem
Use this poem during a thematic lesson, whole group or a literacy center and have learners find things they will see in spring.

Lesson Plans

Spring Thematic Plans
Use these plans as a guide for engaging spring read alouds and activities in the classroom.

Seasons
Read A Tree for All Seasons and complete the season anchor chart together. Have learners complete the printable on their own.

It’s Spring
Read It’s Spring and complete a T-chart before and after a class spring walk outside.

Spring Changes
Read When Spring Comes and have learners complete the Spring Changes booklet.

Spring Animals
Read Fletcher and the Springtime Blossoms. Use the cards to write how Fletchers friends change when spring comes.

Spring Robin
Read My Spring Robin and have learners create a robin and complete the poem.

Spring Sensory Charts
Explore spring with the five senses. Complete the charts together and have learners draw and write about the spring using their senses on the interactive page.

Spring Predictable Chart Class Book
Use this resource to create a class book from the predictable chart created during the week.

Literacy Centers

Literacy Center | Alphabet Write the Room
Have learners find the letter cards around the room and write the letters on their printable.

Literacy Center | CVC Words
Have learners match the CVC word to the correct picture

Literacy Center | Initial Sounds
Have learners clip the letter that starts each word.

Math Centers

Math Center | Number Pocket Chart
Have learners sort the cards on the pocket chart by their number

Math Center | Shape Flowers
Have learners match the correct shape to each flower.

Math Center | Teen Counting
Have learners count the correct number of carrots for each mat.

Check out these related resources:

Insects and Bugs Thematic Unit

Insects and Bugs Lapbook

Seasons Science Lapbook

LEARNING STANDARDS INCLUDED IN THIS RESOURCE

Common Core Standards

Language Arts

CCSSCCRA.W.2

Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.

CCSSL.K.1a

Print many upper- and lowercase letters.

CCSSL.K.2d

Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.

CCSSRF.K.1d

Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.

CCSSRF.K.2c

Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words.

CCSSRF.K.2d

Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.)

CCSSRI.K.8

With prompting and support, identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.

CCSSRL.K.7

With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).

CCSSSL.K.5

Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.

Math

CCSSK.CC.A.3

Write numbers from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-20 (with 0 representing a count of no objects).

CCSSK.CC.B.4

Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality.

CCSSK.CC.B.4b

Understand that the last number name said tells the number of objects counted. The number of objects is the same regardless of their arrangement or the order in which they were counted.

CCSSK.G.A.2

Correctly name shapes regardless of their orientations or overall size.

Texas Essential of Knowledge and Skills

Language Arts

TEKSLA.K.2.A.vii

Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking–beginning reading and writing…The student expects to: demonstrate phonological awareness by: blending spoken onsets and rimes to form simple words.

TEKSLA.K.2.A.viii

TEKSLA.K.2.C.i

Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking–beginning reading and writing…The student expects to: demonstrate and apply spelling knowledge by: spelling words with VC, CVC, and CCVC.

TEKSLA.K.2.D.v

Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking–beginning reading and writing…The student expects to: demonstrate print awareness by: identifying all uppercase and lowercase letters.

TEKSLA.K.5.B

Comprehension skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts… The student is expects: generate questions about text before, during, and after reading to deepen understanding and gain information with adult assistance.

TEKSLA.K.5.C

Comprehension skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts…The student expects to: make and confirm predictions using text features and structures with adult assistance.

TEKSLA.K.5.E

Comprehension skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts…The student expects to: make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society with adult assistance.

TEKSLA.K.11.B

Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts–genres. The student uses genre characteristics and craft to compose multiple texts that are meaningful. The student expects to: dictate or compose informational texts.

Science

TEKSSCI.K.2.A

Scientific investigation and reasoning. The student develops abilities to ask questions and seek answers in classroom and outdoor investigations. The student expects to: ask questions about organisms, objects, and events observed in the natural world.

TEKSSCI.K.2.C

Scientific investigation and reasoning. The student develops abilities to ask questions and seek answers in classroom and outdoor investigations. The student expects to: collect data and make observations using simple tools.

TEKSSCI.K.3.B

Scientific investigation and reasoning. The student knows that information and critical thinking are used in scientific problem solving. The student expects to: make predictions based on observable patterns in nature.

TEKSSCI.K.8.A

Earth and space. The student knows that there are recognizable patterns in the natural world and among objects in the sky. The student expects to: observe and describe weather changes from day to day and over seasons.

TEKSSCI.K.8.B

Earth and space. The student knows that there are recognizable patterns in the natural world and among objects in the sky. The student expects to: identify events that have repeating patterns, including seasons of the year and day and night.

Math

TEKSMA.K.2.B

Number and operations. The student applies mathematical process standards to understand how to represent and compare whole numbers, the relative position and magnitude of whole numbers, and relationships within the numeration system. The student expects to: read, write, and represent whole numbers from 0 to at least 20 with and without objects or pictures.

TEKSMA.K.2.C

Number and operations. The student applies mathematical process standards to understand how to represent and compare whole numbers, the relative position and magnitude of whole numbers, and relationships within the numeration system. The student expects to: count a set of objects up to at least 20 and demonstrate that the last number said tells the number of objects in the set regardless of their arrangement or order.

TEKSMA.K.6.A

Geometry and measurement. The student applies mathematical process standards to analyze attributes of two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional solids to develop generalizations about their properties. The student expects to: identify two-dimensional shapes, including circles, triangles, rectangles, and squares as special rectangles.