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MA Standards
English Language Arts/Literature/RL.PK.MA.2: With prompting and support, retell a sequence of events from a story read aloud.
English Language Arts/Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.1a: Observe and use appropriate ways of interacting in a group (e.g., taking turns in talking, listening to peers, waiting to speak until another person is finished talking, asking questions and waiting for an answer, gaining the floor in appropriate ways).
Head Start Outcomes
Social Emotional Development/Self-Regulation: Follows simple rules, routines, and directions.
Language Development/Receptive Language: Attends to language during conversations, songs, stories, or other learning experiences.
PreK Learning Guidelines
English Language Arts/Language 1: Observe and use appropriate ways of interacting in a group (taking turns in talking; listening to peers; waiting until someone is finished; asking questions and waiting for an answer; gaining the floor in appropriate ways).
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 12: Listen to, recite, sing, and dramatize a variety of age-appropriate literature.
Sing Together: “This Is the Way I Plant the Grains”
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STEM Key Concepts: Plants need water and sunlight to grow; Plants have different parts
ELA Focus Skills: Listening and Speaking, Phonological Awareness (Repetition), Gross Motor Skills
Sing “This Is the Way I Plant the Grains” with children to help them recall the sequence of events in the little red hen story. Tell children that they will sing a song and act out how the little red hen plants her grains. Have children act out each verse. Before adding a new verse, ask children to give ideas as to how they might act it out. For example, ask, How can we show how the hen cuts the wheat?
This Is the Way I Plant the Grains
(sung to the tune of “Here We Go ’Round the Mulberry Bush”)
This is the way I plant the grains,
Plant the grains, plant the grains,
This is the way I plant the grains,
All by myself.
(Create new verses by inserting the following phrases in place of “plant the grains”: cut the wheat; grind the wheat; bake the bread; eat the bread.)
Adaptation: With very young children, sing the song to one child at a time.