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Small-Group Time Planning Form

Originating
Idea

Sunflowers

Materials

Old sunflower heads, tweezers

Curriculum
Content

KDI. 17 Fine motor skills

Beginning

Have you ever wondered what was in the


middle of a sunflower? With our tweezers we
can pull out the little seed from the sunflower
head

Opening
Statement

Middle
Earlier
What will
children do?

Practice at
holding
tweezers,
tweeze at
flower

Strategies:
How will you
scaffold
their
learning?

Acknowledge
work, ask
parts of the
flower

Middle

Tweeze flower
petals,
attempt to
pull out seeds

Strategies:

Acknowledge
work, ask
where seeds
are located

End
warning and
transition to
next part of
routine

Now that we have removed the sunflowers


seeds, lets go plant them during our recess.
Walk nicely to the door to go outside
Follow-up
Ideas

Tweezing other flowers for seeds

Later

Tweeze out
sunflower
seeds

Strategies:

Acknowledge
work, ask
how many
seeds theyve
gotten

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