  
Spring
Poems & Songs
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Spring is Here
(Tune: Are You Sleeping)
I see robins, I see bird's nests,
Butterflies too, flowers too.
Everything is growing,
The wind is gently blowing.
Spring is here, spring is here. |
Spring is Here
(Tune: The Farmer in the Dell)
The days of Spring are here,
Warm, sunny days are near,
Flowers and bees, and birds in trees.
The days of spring are here. |
Spring Song
(Tune: Jingle Bells)Spring is
here, Spring is here.
Everything is new.
Look around and you will find
There's lots of things to do.
Come on out everyone,
Come and play with me,
We will have lots of fun 'cause spring has finally sprung!
There are daffodils in bloom,
and flowers everywhere
Birds are chirping happy tunes,
There’s magic in the air.
Spring is here, Spring is here,
Everything is new.
Look around and you will find there’s lots of things to do! |
Goodbye Winter
(Tune: Goodnight
Ladies) Goodbye winter,
Goodbye winter,
Goodbye winter,
We wish you'd go away!
Goodbye snow,
Goodbye slush,
Goodbye puddles,
We wish you'd go away!
Come back springtime,
Come back springtime,
Come back springtime,
We wish you'd come to stay!
Come back green grass,
Come back flowers,
Come back birdies,
We wish you'd come to stay! |
My Eyes
Can See It's Springtime
(Tune: Did You Ever See a Lassie?)
My eyes can see it's springtime,
It's springtime,
It's springtime
My eyes can see it's spring time
The grass is so green
The green grass,
The flowers,
The sunshine,
The showers
My eyes can see it's springtime
The grass is to green |
What
the Robin Told The
wind told the grasses,
And the grasses told the trees.
The trees told the bushes,
And the bushes told the bees.
The bees told the robin,
And the robin sang out clear:
Wake up!
Wake up!
Spring is here!
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Five Spring
Things
When I look, I hope to see
Five little things that say it's spring.
One is leaves upon the trees
Two is grass that turns to green.
Three are flowers orange, red, and yellow.
Four is the robin, a worm-eating fellow.
The last spring thing, or number five,
Is the springtime rain that brings it all alive.
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Spring Has
Sprung
The birdies sing because it's spring.
And bunnies hop, hop, hop.
From below the grass, the flowers wake,
And up their little heads pop.
They greet the trees and warm spring breeze.
With a cheery spring hello.
To tell the world the spring has sprung
And the winter snow should go.
How wonderful the springtime
With all its life anew.
I hope that this and every spring
Bring happiness to you! |
Spring
Frogs croak,
Rains soak.
Chicks peep.
Crickets leap.
Bees hum.
Robins come.
Birds sing.
It's Spring! |
Yellow Daffodils
Yellow, yellow daffodils
You’re dancing in the sun.
Yellow, yellow daffodils
You tell me spring has come.
I can hear a bluebird sing
And hear a robin call,
Yellow, yellow daffodils
I love you best of all. |
Countdown for Spring
One is the flag fluttering in the breeze,
Two are the kites careening by the trees.
Three are the worms wriggling in the ground.
Four are the robins listening for worm's sound.
Five are the daffodils wearing green and yellow.
Six are the calves, following mother's bellow.
Seven are the crocuses, bursting in the air.
Eight are the tulips, swaying everywhere.
Nine are the raindrops, dampening everything.
Ten are the children welcoming the spring.
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A Springtime Song
(Tune: "Oh, When the Saints Go
Marching In")
Oh, when the buds begin to bloom,
Oh, when the buds begin to bloom,
How I love to smell the flowers,
When the buds begin to bloom!
Oh, when the bees go buzzing by,
Oh, when the bees go buzzing by,
I'll be busy as a bumble,
When the bees go buzzing by!
Oh, when the frogs are hopping here,
Oh, when the frogs are hopping there,
I'll be jumping up for joy,
When the frogs are hopping here!
Oh, when the sun comes shining in,
Oh, when the sun comes shining in,
I'll be beaming like the sunshine,
When the sun comes shining in!
Oh, when the month of March begins,
Oh, when the month of March begins,
We will celebrate the springtime,
When the month of March begins! |
| Spring I love the spring.
For every day
There's something new
That's come to stay.
Another bud
Another bird
Another blade
The sun has stirred. |
Do You See a Sign of
Spring?
(Tune: "Did You Ever See a Lassie")
Oh, do you see a sign of spring
A sign of spring,
A sign of spring?
Oh, do you see a sign of spring?
Please, tell us what you see! |
| Springtime
A small green frog
On a big brown log;
A black and yellow bee
In a little green tree;
A red and yellow snake
By a blue-green lake,
All sat and listened
To red bird sing,
"Wake up, everybody,
It's spring! It's spring! |
It's Spring
Bees soon will buzz,
Rabbits soon will hop,
Birds soon will sing,
Frogs soon kerplop.
Chicks soon will peep,
Kids soon will play,
Sun soon will shine,
A fine spring day! |
Literature Connections
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When Will It Be Spring?
by Catherine Walters |
Hopper Hunts for Spring
by Marcus Pfister |
When Spring Comes
by Robert Maass |
My Spring Robin
by Anne Rockwell |
Spring Song
by Barbara Seuling |
Mud
by Mary Lyn Ray |
Franklin's Baby Sister
by Paulette Bourgeois |
How Do You Know It's Spring?
by Allan Fowler |
Are You Spring?
by Caroline Pitcher |
It's Spring!
by Samantha Berger |
The Search for Spring
by Else Holmelund Minarik |
North Country Spring
by Reeve Lindbergh |
Simon Welcomes Spring
by Giles Tibo |
Countdown to Spring
by Janet Schulman |
Balanced Literacy
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 Shared Reading
Who Took the Farmer's Hat?
By Joan L. NodsetDay 1: Brainstorm with the children for words that
are related to spring. Classify them under such headings as: spring flowers, spring birds, spring animals, spring insects, spring words, spring weather.
Introduce the story by looking at the cover. Make a prediction...Who took the
farmer's hat?
Read the story for enjoyment. Check story predictions. Did you guess it was the
wind?
Day 2: Reread story. Focus on beginning and ending of the book. What kind of
hat did the farmer have at the beginning of the story? ( old brown hat) What kind of
hat did he have at the end? (new brown hat) talk about opposites. Can you name
more?
Day 3: Reread story.
In this story each animal saw the same hat, but thought it was something different.
Write the character's names and the way each described the farmer's hat on chart
paper.
Farmer old brown
hat
Squirrel fat round brown bird
Mouse big round
brown mousehole
Fly
flat round brown hill
Point out that the first and last words of what each animal saw were different but the two
middle words were the same. Ask a volunteer the two words that were the same in all
the descriptions. (round brown). help students to identify how what each character
saw was different.
Day 4: Reread story. Focus on setting and characters. Ask: "Who saw
____?" Choral read the story, assigning groups of children to be the farmer and
each animal.
Day 5: Reread story. Invent a new story ending. Ask the children to
think of ways each animal might have used the farmer's hat. what could the farmer
have done instead of buying a new hat? What would you do if you had found the
farmer's hat?
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 Guided Reading
Spring Blends
There are many words
about spring that have blends. Have children write sentences for some of these
words: spring, flower, showers, bloom, dragonflies, grasshoppers, bluebird, sprout, sky,
clouds, planted, etc. |
Independent Reading
Level A
What Season is This? (Wright)
I Can Fly (Wright)
Level B
Hats (Wright)
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Shared Writing
Spring Walk
Take a walk, then come back and have your students
participate in making a class book. Begin with a predictable chart. The sentence frame
could be “I saw a ______. “ Each student illustrates their sentence.
You could also read the book I Went
Walking. Your sentence frame could be “I went walking. What
did you see? I saw a (color) (object) looking at me.” |
Interactive Writing
Rabbit Writing
A guided writing activity
during this unit might be about a bunny. Begin with a rabbit shaped paper. Tell the
children they are going to write a paragraph- a lot of sentences about something. Ask for
a volunteer to think of a sentence about what this is (a rabbit). You will almost always
get the sentence-"This is a rabbit/bunny." Draw one line for each word in the
sentence and have different children come up and write the sounds. Other sentences
include: What color is the rabbit?, What does the rabbit like to do?, and What is the name
of a rabbit we know?. The kids enjoy this writing experience and love to take the marker
and show what they know! |
Independent Writing
Sentence Kites
Using a FOLDED diamond-shaped piece of construction paper, have children dab poster paint
in the middle of the fold. Next, have them close the fold and press tightly. When they
open the kite, there is a beautiful imprint inside. On a LONG rectangular strip of
construction paper or a sentence strip, have the children write what they would see
outside as they flew their kites. |
Little Readers
Spring
The cherry trees wear puffs again,
The tulips show green shoots.
Have the students draw a tree and green shoots. Wrap very small pink tissue
paper squares around the flat end of a pencil, and glue them on the tree for blossoms
A shower sprinkled down on me,
But I had on my boots.
Students draw themselves, in rain gear, in a gray
rainy scene. Add silver glitter to a few of their raindrops.
I saw a pretty butterfly,
I heard a robin sing.
Students draw themselves beside a tree....a bird in
the tree. Use a butterfly sticker, and musical note stickers or plastic confetti musical
notes beside the bird.
I'd like to sing, I'd like to shout!
It's spring, it's spring, it's spring!
Students draw a spring scene including themselves 'leaping for joy'! |
Math Activities
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Spring Counting Book
Make the cover any color, and then make one page for each thing.
1 Ladybug,
2 butterflies,
3 spiders,
4 bees,
5 flowers.
You can add more depending on the age of your children. Draw pictures in the books or cut
out shapes for the children to glue. |
Buzzin'
Around
Program a bee cutout with a numeral. Program a brown stem with corresponding dots.(the
set) Program a colorful spring flower cutout with the matching number word. Children will
match the bees with the correct flower and stem. |
Spring Bingo
Make a Bingo game with numerals 0-20. Use spring-colored m&m's for gamecard markers |
Raining Cats & Dogs
Discuss the saying, "It's raining cats and dogs." Prepare a cat cutout and a dog
cutout. Tape them back to back on each other. Prepare a graphing sheet with 10 grids. Toss
the cat/dog piece ten times. Graph how many times it lands on "cats" and how
many times it lands on "dogs." |
Gummy Worm Math
Compare 2 bags of gummy worms. Have children "guesstimate" which bag has more.
Have them make an estimate as to the number they think is in each of the bags. |
Thermometer Reading
Spring is a good time to help children learn how to read a thermometer and place it on a
level where young children can read it easily. Then make a play thermometer that they can
manipulate themselves.
Procedure: Cut a small slit at the top and bottom of the piece of cardboard. Color half
the ribbon red. Thread the ribbon through the slits and tie the ends together in the back.
Mark the front of the cardboard with the degree calibrations found on a real thermometer.
As the children observe the temperature changes during the day on the real thermometer,
have them adjust their make-believe thermometer by moving the red ribbon up or down.
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Classifying Clothes
Materials: Pictures of different types of clothing (work, play, winter, summer).
Children sort and
categorize pictures according to when they wear them. Try collecting "real"
clothing for children to sort. |
Center Ideas
Art Activities
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Pussywillows
Have each child cut out a vase shape out of paper and glue it on another sheet. Have them
draw lines with a marker that come out of the vase as stems. Glue puffed wheat cereal onto
the stems to make "pussywillows" If possible bring some real ones in for show. |
Daffodils
Supplies:
Yellow Crepe Paper
Yellow Cupcake Papers
Green Pipe Cleaners
Roll up a little ball on one end of the pipe cleaner so that when you stick it through the
flower it won't just fall out. First cut the shape of the "back" of the
daffodil...or approximately anyway. Put a small hole in the center for the pipe cleaner.
Cut the cupcake paper in half. Roll it till you can glue the pleated edges together,
making the part of the flower that sticks out in front (we called it the
"trumpet"). Make a hole (or sort of open the one that's there) and put the pipe
cleaner through both parts of the flower; glue the "trumpet" onto the back of
the flower. You can also add a little edge of orange with markers to make them look like
the variations of daffodils. |
Wishing for Spring
Give each child a tree made out of stiff paper. Pop a batch of plain popcorn and place it
in a bag or bucket with red or pink powder paint. Shake it until all off the popcorn is
pink then have the children decorate their trees and turn them into beautiful blossom
trees! |
| Pink Cherry
Blossoms
Materials:
10 green construction-paper leaf cutouts
1 sheet of 9" x 12" white construction paper
popcorn and straw
red and white tempera paint
brown tempera paint in a shallow tray
1. Mix together red and white paint to make
pink. Paint some popcorn and allow it to dry.
2. Paint a brown tree trunk on a sheet
of white construction paper.
3. Dip the side of a straw in brown paint. Use it to
print the tree's branches. Allow paint to dry.
4. Glue green paper leaves to the branches.
5. Glue popcorn onto the tree to make cherry blossoms. Add popcorn to the bottom of
the picture for fallen blossoms. |
| Chirpees
Materials:
1/2 sheet of 9" x 12" light blue construction paper
brown construction-paper nest cutout
2 orange construction-paper triangles
2 white cotton balls
4 wiggle eyes
shredded wheat cereal
1. Glue the nest on the light blue paper near
the bottom edge.
2. Glue two cotton balls along the straight edge of the nest.
(the birds)
3. Glue a pair of wiggle eyes and an orange beak on each cotton ball.
4. Spread glue on the nest and sprinkle on shredded
wheat cereal. Allow to dry. |
Lilies
Trace outlines of the child's hand on paper.
Cut out hand shapes
Using a pencil roll the fingers up so that they curl up.
Curl the hand-shape vertically into a sort of trumpet/lily shaped cylinder with the finger
curls curling outwards.
Staple the flower onto a drinking straw, along with cutout leaves.
Four or five of these make a nice arrangement. |
| Blob Print Butterflies
Blob prints basically
involve putting blobs of paint onto paper, and then folding the paper over in half and
rubbing your palm across it to mix the paints together. The result when the paper is
opened out is a symmetrical print that resembles a butterfly. Trace around the edge
of the print for the child with a marker so they could cut out their butterfly shape |
More Ideas
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Spring Cleaning
Let the children have buckets of water, squirt bottles, rags, feather dusters, dusting
rags etc. Allow them to scrub down chairs and tables, dust, squirt the windows and wipe
them down. The children love to do this ! Give a bath to each toy and baby in the centers.
Getting a little wet is half the fun! |
Spring Has Sprung!
Take strips of brown paper bags. Ask the children to arrange their thumbprints onto the
strips to form "buds". Assemble the tree by using more brown bags for the trunk
and arranging the thumbprint strips as branches. At the base of a bulletin board, give the
children rectangle pieces of paper. Have they make thumbprints of pink, yellow and purple.
Place a green painted Popsicle stick in the middle of the thumbprints as a stem and you
have hyacinths! For tulips, have the child print their hand onto the paper and add a green
colored stick underneath |
| Comparing Blooms Find three branches from a
blooming shrub or bush. A branch that has not done any budding or blooming, a branch that
has buds just beginning to appear and a branch with full blooms. Compare the three. If you
keep them in water they will last a bit longer! |
A Signs of
Spring Walk
Take a walk outside with your class. What do you see? Are there any sprouts coming
up? Flowers blooming? Bugs flying/crawling? Do you hear birds singing? Do you smell the
freshness in the air and in the earth? Use all your senses and ask open ended questions.
The children will become quite excited as you discover the earth's awakening when spring
is in the air! |
Spring Hats
Glue or staple together two paper plates. Cut out the center circle so you
have a ring. Glue craft materials to the ring (cupcake liners, feathers, pom poms,
ribbon, etc.) Punch a hole on each side and tie ribbons through the holes. |
Wormy Dessert
Make a package of chocolate instant pudding according to instructions. Mix in 1 cup of
thawed frozen whipped topping (i.e. Cool Whip). Spoon into clear plastic cups. Put 2-3
gummy worms in the pudding mix. Crumble up some chocolate sandwich cookies and sprinkle on
the top of the pudding cups. Vanilla pudding and vanilla cookies can be substituted
if chocolate allergies are an issue. |
Grass Heads
Materials: Old pair of nylon legs, grass seed, soil, small plastic containers (,jar or
cleaned cat food tins), elastic bands, googlie eyes, pipe cleaners and a spray bottle.
Description:
1. Cut nylon at the knee
2. Scoop in 1 tbs. grass seed
3. Scoop in preferred amount of soil / compacted (size of
a softball). Work the soil down to foot of nylon
into shape of a head.
4. Tie the open end of the nylon tight (snip excess nylon
and leave about 3 inches dangling).
5. Have the children pinch the soil through the nylon to
make it easy to tie an elastic around for ears and nose.
6. Add googlie eyes.
7. Make glasses out of pipe cleaners
8. Place grass head on top of small container (have
excess 3 inch nylon dangling into the container
9. Pour in 1/2 inch of water in bottom of the container
every couple of days.
10. Spray water gently over grass seeds on top 2 times each
day.
Watch the grass grow and watch the children enjoy creating
there own hairdo's. |
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