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MA Standards:
English Language Arts/Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.2 Recall information for short periods of time and retell, act out, or represent information from a text read aloud, a recording, or a video (e.g., watch a video about birds and their habitats and make drawings or constructions of birds and their nests).
Head Start Outcomes:
Language Development/Receptive Language Attends to language during conversations, songs, stories, or other learning experiences.
Logic and Reasoning/Reasoning and Problem Solving Classifies, compares, and contrasts objects, events, and experiences.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 12 Listen to, recite, sing, and dramatize a variety of age-appropriate literature.
Watch Together: “Huff and Puff” #3 (BTL show)
STEM Key Concepts: How you design and build a structure helps determine how strong it will be; Different materials are useful for making different structures and different parts of structures; Walls, roofs, and bridges need to be supported in special ways
ELA Focus Skills: Active Viewing, Listening and Speaking, Recall and Retell, Sequencing, Vocabulary
Before You Watch
Invite children to watch the Between the Lions video “Huff and Puff.” For this viewing, ask children to think about what made the last pig’s house so strong.
As You Watch
Encourage children to read the repetitive lines spoken by the pigs and the wolf as they appear in the story. You may wish to pause the video so the children can act them out when they appear on the screen.
After You Watch
Ask children to make comparisons to the The Three Little Javelinas. As questions such as,
- Which material in each story was the strongest? How were these materials similar?
- Why do you think the wolf and the coyote could blow in the first pigs’ houses so easily?
- What did you notice about how long it took the first pig and the last pig to build their houses? Do you think it takes longer to build a strong house? Why or why not?
