Grade: Kindergarten

07 Mar 2023

Colors!

August-June

Have you ever been red with anger, green with jealousy, or felt blue when you are sad? Do you enjoy the changing colors of each season? The colors we see every day have many stories to tell. Explore the colors around Greenacres and let them inspire your creative mind.

Standards:

  • Sci.K Exploration leads to observation. Observation leads to questions.
  • VA.K.2PR Generate ideas and images for artwork based on observation, memory, imagination and experience.
  • MU.K.7PR Create a visual representation of sound.

Vocabulary:

Observation, primary, secondary, complimentary, warm, cool, light, dark, change

01 Mar 2021

Sights and Sounds on the Farm

August – June

Join us as we touch, see, hear and smell our way around the farm!

Standards:

  • Ohio
    • K.PS.1: Objects and materials can be sorted and described by their properties.
  • NGSS
    • K-ESS2-2 Earth’s Systems
    • Construct an argument supported by evidence for how plants and animals (including humans) can change the environment to meet their needs.

Vocabulary:

Senses, touch, see, hear, smell, properties, farm

01 Mar 2021

Jobs on the Farm

August – June

What’s it like to be a farmer?  We will see what it takes to keep the farm running smoothly.  Whether that is tending to our pastures or cultivating our crops, there is always something to do on the farm.   

Standards:

  • Ohio
    • K.LS.1: Living things have specific characteristics and traits. 
    • K.LS.2: Living things have physical traits and behaviors, which influence their survival.
  • NGSS
    • K-ESS2-2. Construct an argument supported by evidence for how plants and animals (including humans) can change the environment to meet their needs.
    • K-ESS3-1. Use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants or animals (including humans) and the places they live.

Vocabulary:

Farmer, characteristic, trait, cultivate, crop, relationship

01 Mar 2021

Farming in any Weather

August – June

Every season is a different experience when you are on the farm!  Come explore what the current season has to offer for life here.

Standards:

  • Ohio K.ESS.1: Weather changes are long-term and short-term.
  • NGSS
    • K-PS3-1. Make observations to determine the effect of sunlight on Earth’s surface
    • K-ESS2-1. Use and share observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time.
    • K-ESS3-2. Ask questions to obtain information about the purpose of weather forecasting to prepare for, and respond to, severe weather.

Vocabulary:

Season, sun, weather, pattern, forecast

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