Plants as a Mini-Lesson!

During one of our Daily 5/CAFE mini-lessons this week, I mixed in what we were learning in science. I placed six sentence strips in the pocket chart that taught different types of plants. After reading each line, we discussed what we would think using our prior knowledge of the words in the sentence, as to what the plant would look like. After a good discussion, I revealed a picture of each type of plant. We then put new table names up using those same types of plants!