Monday, June 6, 2011

Orderliness - Classifying Plants

4 comments:

Shannon said...

Pre-K to 1st Grade Level:
Seeds:
Carle, Eric. The Tiny Seed. (Good)
Gibbons, Gail. From Seed to Plant. (Good)
Patty's pumpkin patch by Sloat, Teri. (Good)
How Groundhog’s Garden Grew by Lynne Cherry(Good)
Little Farm by the Sea by Kay Chorano (Good)
From Seed to Pumpkin by Wendy Pfeffer (Good)
One Bean by Anne Rockwell (GREAT)
Oh Can You Say Seed? by Bonnie Worth (Great)
Ten Seeds by Ruth Brown (Good)
One little seed by Greenstein, Elaine. (Good)
Science projects about plants by Gardner, Robert, (Good)
Experiments with plants by Tocci, Salvatore. (Good)
Fruit (Scholastic First Discovery Book) (Good)

Roots/Stems/Leaves:
What do roots do? by Kudlinski, Kathleen V.(Good)
Taking root by Fowler, Allan (Good)

Flowers:
Heller, Ruth. The Reason for a Flower (Good)
The red poppy by Lucht, Irmgard (Good)
“Flowers” (Scholastic A First Discovery Book) (Good)
The Magical Garden of Claude Monet by Laurence Anholt (Good)

Trees:
Starting Life Tree by by Llewellyn, Claire (Good for older kids)
Ehlert, Lois. Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf. (Good)
How Do Apples Grow? by Maestro, Betsy (Good)
Chocolate by Llewellyn, Claire (Good)
Oranges by Llewellyn, Claire (Good)

Shannon said...

For pre-school - 3rd grade level you can see our book list at http://www.squidoo.com/plant-seeds-lesson-plan .

Cinda said...

Picture books for elementary ages:
- The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
- Sky Tree (Seeing Science Through Art) by Thomas Locker
- Crinkleroot's Guide to Knowing the Trees by Jim Arnosky
Meeting Trees by Scott Russell Sanders

Chapter book for late elementary:
- The Plant that Ate Dirty Socks by Nancy McArthur

Anonymous said...

A tree is nice / Janice May Udry
The tiny seed / Eric Carle
Look what I did with a leaf! / Morteza E. Sohi
The giving tree / Shel Silverstein
From seed to plant / by Gail Gibbons
Patty's pumpkin patch / Teri Sloat
How Groundhog's garden grew / by Lynne Cherry
From seed to pumpkin / by Wendy Pfeffer
Ten seeds / written and illustrated by Ruth Brown
Science projects about plants / Robert Gardner
The red poppy / Irmgard Lucht
Red leaf, yellow leaf / Lois Ehlert
Meeting trees / by Scott Russell Sanders
A seed is sleepy / by Dianna Hutts Aston
The magic school bus plants seeds : a book about how living things grow
Through Georgia's eyes / Rachel Rodriguez
Planting a rainbow / written and illustrated by Lois Ehlert
Leaves! Leaves! Leaves! / written and illustrated by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace
Tell me, tree : all about trees for kids / by Gail Gibbons