- fruit with seeds, cut in half
- real plants/seeds (e.g., a dandelion/dandelion seeds, a pumpkin/pumpkin seeds, a sunflower/sunflower seeds or use photos if real plants are not available)
- fruit
- garden
- seed
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.1: Demonstrate use of oral language in informal everyday activities.
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: Seeds, Seeds, Seeds #1
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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 places where they get their needs met; Plants often grow in some type of dirt; A seed will grow into the parent plant it came from
ELA Focus Skills: Fine Motor Skills, Listening and Speaking, Phonological Awareness (Rhythm, Rhyme, and Repetition), Vocabulary
Educator Prep: If possible, display real plants/seeds children saw at the farm. If not available, use other real plants/seeds or laminate pictures of plants/seeds for children to visually connect with as they recall observations at the farm.
Display the plants and seeds together. Review the farm visit with children. Encourage them to use the plants and seeds (or photos) to share their observations at the farm. Hold up a plant and a seed and ask, What do you think this seed will grow into? Point to the plant and ask, Where did the seed come from? Reinforce that a seed will grow into the parent plant it came from.
Hold up the piece of fruit and ask children to name it and describe it. Open it up so you can see the seeds and ask,
- What do you notice about the apple that is the same as the peapods we saw yesterday? (both have seeds)
Tell children that fruits are parts of plants. They often hold the seeds of the plant. Ask children to name other fruits they know that have seeds. (melon, peach, pear, etc.)