All About Plants is the ultimate resource for teaching children about plants and for practicing important language and math skills that help children make cross-curricular connections. This wonderfully illustrated thematic unit has an easy-to-use format that makes it a must-have! The five plant themes explored are: Plants Are Living Things, Plants Have Parts, Plants Have Seeds, Different Kinds of Plants, How We Use Plants, The five sections in this book are overflowing with fun stories and activities such as: storybooks: "Little Ant Learns About Plants"; "Little Ant Learns Plants Have Parts"; "Little Ant Learns About Seeds"; "Little Ant Learns About Different Plants"; "Little Ant Learns How Plants Are Used", full-color storyboard pieces that make it easy and fun to review concepts while you re-tell the story, art projects: Plant Rubbings; Flower Diagram; Seed Patterns; Textured Tree; My Cookbook, cooking: Fruit and Vegetable Taste Test; Flower Cups; Salty Seeds; Fruity Trail Mix; Apple Muffins, story comprehension, language, and math activity pages that are engaging and offer essential skills practice, learning centers: What Plants Need; Plant Puzzles; From Seed to Plant; Sequencing; Draw and Color, outdoor: Schoolyard Nature Hunt; Calling All Flower Parts; Hide and Seed; Flower, Flower, Bee; Plant Names, music/dramatic play: "Do You Know How Plants Grow?"; "That#8217;s How You Grow a Plant!"; "I#8217;m a Little Flower"; "10 Little Seeds"; "Falling Apples", alphabet cards: charmingly illustrated, full-color, theme-based, upper- and lowercase alphabet cards, Top The colorful All About- thematic series provides the busy teacher with full-color stories and ready-to-use activities that teach skills and concepts across the whole early childhood curriculum. Each thematic unit contains five sections that support reading readiness and beginning math skills such as: vocabulary and concept development, listening and comprehension, rhyming, letter and sound recognition, patterning, numeral recognition, beginning computation, geometric shapes, Each of the five sections focuses on a different aspect of the central theme. Each section contains: a full-color, wonderfully illustrated story that introduces the subject of each unit - perfect for circle time, a reproducible minibook of the same story, full-color storyboard pieces that include a teacher script, a story comprehension page, an art project that includes a photo and teacher directions, a cooking project that includes teacher directions and a parent letter with recipe, reproducible language and math activity pages that practice early childhood acquisition skills, a learning centerthat comes with instructions and materials, a music/dramatic play activity that includes teacher directions, an outdoor activity that includes teacher directions, Plus colorful alphabet cards, teacher scripts for stories and storyboard pieces, directions on creating a bulletin board, parent letters, and much more!