- bean plantings
- photographs, video, and drawings from the week
- “Plants All Around” chart
- science notebooks
- bean
- bulb
- grow
- plant
- seed
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.
Science and Technology/Life Sciences 10: Observe and identify the characteristics and needs of living things: humans, animals, and plants.
Talk Together: Seeds and Plants Review
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STEM Key Concepts: Plants start in different ways; Some plants start from seeds; Some plants start from bulbs; Plants grow in many places; Plants need water, food, and sunlight to grow; Plants grow in places where they get their needs met; Plants often grow in some type of dirt
ELA Focus Skills: Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary
Talk with children about their experiences planting seeds and bulbs this week. Use any photos, videos, drawings, or charts to help engage children in discussion. Have children share their science notebooks and compare findings.
Then ask children to think about the things plants need to grow. Ask children to illustrate and dictate or write a caption for the following sentence,
If I was a plant, I would need .
Revisit the “Plants All Around” chart and have children dictate or draw to record new observations and ideas. Help children review what they’ve observed and come up with new ideas for their explorations today.