- drawings from children’s Discovery Time activities
- The Three Little Javelinas (book)
- The Three Little Pigs (book)
- strong
MA Standards:
English Language Arts/Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.1 Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners during daily routines and play.
Head Start Outcomes:
Logic and Reasoning/Reasoning and Problem Solving Classifies, compares, and contrasts objects, events, and experiences.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Language 2 Participate actively in discussions, listen to the ideas of others, and ask and answer relevant questions.
Talk Together: Building Strong
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STEM Key Concepts: How you design and build a structure helps determine how strong it will be
ELA Focus Skills: Listening and Speaking, Vocabulary
Introduce to children the idea of building to make structures strong. Talk with children about their experiences building structures. Ask them to discuss the times their buildings have fallen over. As children talk, ask them how they rebuilt their structures so they would not fall over again. Guide them to notice how they found ways to use different materials, or to use the same materials in different ways, to make the structure more stable. Say, These are all the ways you’ve made your buildings strong. Help children to make the connection between what they have done and the concept of building stronger structures.