- construction worker play clothes such as hard hats, work gloves, goggles, and overalls
- materials for making constructions signs
- play tools
- build
- change
- clean
- redecorate
- remodel
- paint
MA Standards:
English Language Arts/Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.5 Create representations of experiences or stories (e.g., drawings, constructions with blocks or other materials, clay models) and explain them to others.
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:
Approaches to Learning/Initiative and Curiosity Demonstrates flexibility, imagination, and inventiveness in approaching tasks and activities.
Logic and Reasoning/Symbolic Representation Engages in pretend play and acts out roles.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Language 4 Engage in play experiences that involve naming and sorting common words into various classifications using general and specific language.
Science and Technology/Physical Sciences 20 Create representations of experiences or stories (e.g., drawings, constructions with blocks or other materials, clay models) and explain them to others.
Construction Zone
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Skill Focus: Imaginative Play, Listening and Speaking, Vocabulary
Talk about the tools that construction workers use and the clothes they wear (see Art Center). Then let children role-play construction workers remodeling the Pretend and Play Center. Help children put up signs such as “CAUTION Construction Area.”
Allow children to rearrange objects in the center as they pretend to paint, put up or tear down walls, or add any other construction to the area. As children “work,” they might want to make up new lyrics to the tune of “This Is the Way We Build a House“ and call it “This is How We Remodel a House!”