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Life Cycle Unit for Kindergarten Plants and Animals in Spanish

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Engage your Bilingual and Dual Language Classroom with this Life Cycle Unit for Kindergarten on Plants and Animals in Spanish!

As teachers, we tend to plan ahead for upcoming unit plans, but we really don't want to spend a ton of time in the search for resources to plug into our plans. PLUS, it can be really hard to find the right resources in SPANISH.

And this is why I created 'Plantas y Animales' a resource packed with activities to complement your unit on plants and animals for kindergarten or first grade in Spanish.

Plants and Animals Unit Plan

I was looking for resources to plug into a PYP (The Primary Years Programme/IB). I wanted something that was interdisciplinary--actually transdisciplinary--with anchor charts, posters, vocabulary development and so much more...in Spanish. Of course, I couldn't find the resource. So I created this one!

What's included in Ciclos de Plantas y Animales Unit Plan?

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Ideas for Teacher Implementation
Illustrated, color Vocabulary Cards
Illustrated in color plus black and white Sequencing Cards
Paired Texts (Amazon Tropical Forest Birds - How Can I Help?)
Low preparation Activity Sheets
Anchor Charts for Life Cycles of an apple, a hen, and a bean
Observation Journal for Bean Growth
Foldable Book
Interactive Digital Sorts
Answer Keys
Student Printable Sheets compiled into a 'Kids Pack'

Life Cycle Unit for Kindergarten

This resource is intended to supplement your lesson plans, and it does not include lesson plans because many times schools and districts require lesson plans to be written in a certain way, or written by following a certain format.

There are 2 main components in this resource:

The Teacher's Pack and the Kids' Pack.

In the teacher's pack, you have all of your printed resources plus ideas and instructions for use. There a lot of resources, but I love to start out my unit with the vocabulary cards. You can quickly plug the vocabulary cards into your unit lesson plan by introducing the words at the beginning of your unit.

Once you have introduced the words, then teach the class different vocabulary games that you can play as a class or in centers. My favorite game for partners in centers is 'Memory'. The cards are also great because if you print them 2-sided, then one side has the image alone, and the other one has the image and the label for the image.

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Your class can play a lot of quizzing games as partners. My favorite 'game' is actually 'Quiz-Quiz Trade' from Kagan Cooperative Group Structures.

The sequencing cards are easy to use as well, and can serve as a sequencing activity that turns into a write-about-the-sequence activity! I use these cards in centers.

The most useful part of this resource for me is the anchor chart materials and the related activities. I base my unit for life cycles on the anchor charts, and I introduce one life cycle a day.

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Students learn about the life cycle as you teach using the anchor chart pieces, and then they can create their own life cycle sequence with the cut and paste activity sheets. The activity sheets are great as a center, partner work, individual/whole group or small-group interventions.

Another key point for me as I plug this resource into my PYP and Dual Language unit is the Paired Texts.
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The paired texts are great because kids need a global perspective, and the first text about Amazonian Birds does just that. And the second text brings it right back home by answering the question, "How can I help?" with the clarifying answer of recycling.

Then as a Kindergarten Team, we planned out ways we could help the animals in our own neighborhood by cleaning up trash, creating signs and posters about recycling, and actually going to different classrooms to tell kids about how important recycling is.
Life Cycle Kindergarten Printable Worksheets: The Kids Pack

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The Kids' Pack is full of engaging activities from black and white sequencing cards, to cut and paste life cycles, to labeling practice, to a Bean Growth Journal and so much more!

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But I can't neglect to tell you about the Digital Resources and Activities! You will receive projectable, interactive labeling activities along with 3 engaging sorts. These are great to use to show the needs of a plant, the and to sort out what we need vs. what we want, and to distinguish between what is living vs. non-living.

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In Conclusion, this resource is a comprehensive set to supplement your lesson plans for the life cycles of plants and animals.

If your unit centers on life cycles, global perspectives and responsibilities that we should have, and if you are writing a PYP or Dual Language unit, then you know you need this resource to save your time! Your kids will get practice writing and using simple transition words in Spanish, learning about animal life cycles, and learning the difference between our basic needs and desires.