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Practice, Play, and Prepare for First Grade

This week, we're digging up fascinating details about the world of plants. With this collection of learning activities, you can practice and play, while you prepare for first grade.

Potato Maze: Make a Plant Obstacle Course!

Activity

Potato Maze: Make a Plant Obstacle Course!

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

1st grade

Science

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Activity

Design Challenge: Making a Boat

Activity

Design Challenge: Making a Boat

In this activity, your child will be asked to create a boat that can successfully float while holding 25 pennies.

Preschool

Science

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Activity

Word Family Hop: -ike, -ite

Game

Word Family Hop: -ike, -ite

Hop on the words that end in "-ike" or "-ite." These word families are important building blocks for early readers.

Kindergarten

Reading & Writing

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Game

Why Do Plants Wilt?

Science project

Why Do Plants Wilt?

Why do plants wilt? Kids will learn to think critically about what environmental factors affect plants, and what plants need to survive.

Kindergarten

Science

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Science project

Cut-Out Graph: Trees

Worksheet

Cut-Out Graph: Trees

This worksheet takes the stress out of math by turning it into a fun hands-on experiment.

Kindergarten

Math

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Worksheet

Complete the Summer Story: Common Sight Words

Worksheet

Complete the Summer Story: Common Sight Words

This worksheet helps kindergarteners read and write high frequency words!

Kindergarten

Reading & Writing

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Worksheet

Flower Color by Word

Worksheet

Flower Color by Word

This coloring worksheet reviews the following sight words: a, at, he, no, in, and see.

Kindergarten

Reading & Writing

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Worksheet

Find the Plants

Worksheet

Find the Plants

Looking for a worksheet to challenge your little life scientist's knowledge? This printable is all about matching plants with their trees!

Kindergarten

Science

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Worksheet

How Plants Grow

Worksheet

How Plants Grow

Wondering how to explain photosynthesis to a kindergartener? Here is a worksheet that explains how plants grow through a simple picture.

Kindergarten

Science

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Worksheet