- photographs, drawings, charts, and recordings from the week
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.6: Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, listening to books read aloud, activities, and play.
English Language Arts/Language/L.PK.MA.1.f: Demonstrate the ability to speak in complete sentences.
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: Plants Review
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STEM Key Concepts: Plants get their needs met from the environment (their habitat); Some plant parts are below the ground and some above; Earthworms are animals that live in the soil, underground
ELA Focus Skills: Listening and Speaking, Vocabulary
Talk with children about what they explored this week. Discuss children’s photos, drawings, charts, recorded observations, and artwork. Ask each child to tell one thing he or she has learned about plants and worms this week. Encourage children to respond in complete sentences: I learned that worms help plants grow.; I learned that some vegetables grow in the ground.
Revisit the “Plants All Around” and “How Worms Help” charts and have children dictate any new information. Read the charts with children. Point out how much they have learned since beginning this unit on plants.
Adaptation: If children have difficulty putting their ideas into words to tell one thing they learned, provide sentence frames for them to complete, such as, “I learned that worms ______” or “Cucumbers are a kind of _____.”