4th Grade Teachers
Mark Your Calendars

PARENT LETTER- download a letter to send home

September - October (before Holden trip)
Activity
Read letter from instructor and show pictures.
Post in room if possible.
Video
Watch “How Plants Get Food.”
Student Worksheets
Plant Structure and Function
Be a Botanist

Fall Holden Trip

October - November (after Fall Holden trip)
Student Worksheets
A Pine Whorling Experience
Grouping Plants

November - December
Activity
Read “Native Plants” (classroom set included)
Student Worksheet
My State Wildflower

January - February (before classroom visit)
Activity
Read “How a Plant Grows” (classroom sets, 1 per 2 students)

February
Winter Classroom Visits

February - March (after classroom visit)
Activity
Read Audubon Adventures:
“The Buzz about Native Bees” (classroom sets)
“Flutter By, Butterfly” (classroom sets)
Student Worksheets
Bee Worksheet
Butterfly Worksheet
Sprouting Seeds, Growing Plants I

March - May (before Spring Holden trip)
Activities
1.1-3.6 in Life Cycles of Plants Unit
Student Worksheets
Thinking about Plant Life Cycles
Inside a Fruit
Inside a Flower
Sprouting Seeds, Growing Plants II, III (continue from above)

April - May
Spring Holden Trips

April - June (after Spring Holden Trip)
Activities
5.1 and 5.2 Life Cycles of Plants Unit
Student Worksheets
Thinking about the Field Trip
Thinking Again about Life Cycles
Write a Story: This is My Life

May - June
Growing Students and Science Family Summer-Passes given out after Spring Vist