- onion bulbs
- onions
- bulb
- grow
- onion
- plant
- seed
- vegetable
MA Standards:
Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.1: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners during daily routines and play.
Language/L.PK.MA.1: Demonstrate use of oral language in informal everyday activities.
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: Bulbs
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STEM Key Concepts: Plants start in different ways. Some plants start from seeds; Some plants start from bulbs
ELA Focus Skills: Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary
Safety Tips:
- Remind children to wash their hands before and after the activity.
- Be aware of children's allergies before having them explore plants.
Ask children to check on their seeds and share any changes with the group.
Then pass around onion bulbs and ask children to feel them and smell them. Tell children they are onion bulbs. Tell children that many vegetables and flowers have bulbs.
Then ask children what they know about onions. (food, crunchy, smelly) If they are not familiar with onions tell children that an onion is a vegetable that is a bulb and you can eat it. Pass around a large onion for children to touch and smell.