- drawing and writing materials
- scissors
MA Standards:
English Language Arts/Writing/W.PK.MA.2 Use a combination of dictating and drawing to explain information about a topic.
Head Start Outcomes:
Literacy Knowledge/Early Writing Uses scribbles, shapes, pictures, and letters to represent objects, stories, experiences, or ideas.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Composition 16 Use their own words or illustrations to describe their experiences, tell imaginative stories, or communicate information about a topic of interest.
Helping Hands
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Skill Focus: Creative Expression, Vocabulary
Help children trace their handprints onto small squares of construction paper or prepare handprints ahead of time, one for each child.
- Cut out the handprints and invite each child to dictate a sentence about one way he or she helps take care of plants during the day. Point to each word as you read the dictation aloud.
- Help children write their names on their handprints.
- Use glue or tape to make a collage of all the helping hands. Write the title “Helping Hands Take Care of Plants” in large letters on top of the collage and display it.
- Invite children to find their hand and read their sentence to the group.