- size
- structure
MA Standards:
English Language Arts/Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.1 Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners during daily routines and play.
English Language Arts/Language/L.PK.MA.6 Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, listening to books read aloud, activities, and play.
Head Start Outcomes:
Language Development/Receptive Language Attends to language during conversations, songs, stories, or other learning experiences.
Language Development/Expressive Language Uses language to express ideas and needs.
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 to Size and Purpose
© Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Early Education and Care (Jennifer Waddell photographer). All rights reserved.
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: Listening and Speaking, Vocabulary
Take a walk around the room with children to look at and talk about the structures they have been building. Ask, What do you notice about the size of the structures? Why are they different sizes? Have children talk about the reasons they built the houses, who or what they built them for, and what tools and materials they used. Have children explain how they built the houses to fit different things. Encourage children to talk about how they compared the sizes of things, measured, and cut to fit to build their houses. Ask children if they wonder how to build other structures using the same materials. What other materials might they use to build? What other things might they make houses for?