🔬 Watering the Plants
Regar las plantas
🔬 Science
Real-Life Mode
K-LS1-1K-ESS3-3SL.K.4
Objective: Child observes that plants need water, sun, and care to grow while describing them in Spanish.
🧺 Materials
- watering can or cup
- plants or garden you already have
- water
📋 Instructions (parent)
- Fill the watering can together and walk to the plants.
- Ask your child to look closely and describe a plant in Spanish: tall, green, small.
- Let them pour water at the base of each plant, saying agua as they pour.
- Talk about what plants need to grow: water, sun, and care.
- Check the soil with a finger and ask if it feels wet or dry in Spanish.
➕ Extension ideas
- Measure a plant's height with your hands today and again next week.
- Look for a bug or worm in the soil and name it in Spanish.
🗣️ Parent script — say it in Spanish
Español
Las plantas tienen sed, vamos a darles agua. Echa el agua despacio en la tierra. Las plantas necesitan agua y sol para crecer. ¿Ves qué verde está esta hoja?
💬 Conversation prompts
- ¿La tierra está seca o mojada?
- ¿Qué necesita la planta para crecer?
- ¿De qué color son las hojas?
- ¿Cuál planta es más alta?
- ¿Qué crees que va a pasar mañana?
🔑 Vocabulary
- planta — plant
- agua — water
- tierra — soil
- hoja — leaf
- sol — sun
- crecer — to grow
- mojado — wet
- seco — dry
Other ways to do it
⚡ 5-minute version
Water one plant and say agua and the color of its leaves.
🚗 Car version
Spot plants and trees out the window and name them in Spanish.
😴 No-energy version
Your child touches the soil and says mojado or seco while you water.
🎯 California standards covered
| K-LS1-1 | What Living Things Need “I can tell what plants and animals need to live, like food and water.” |
| K-ESS3-3 | Caring for Our Earth “I can share ways to take care of the Earth and keep it clean.” |
| SL.K.4 | Describing Things “I can describe people, places, and things that I know about.” |