- blocks
- plastic or paper worms
- Wonderful Worms (book)
- worm habitat
- burrow
- habitat
- tunnel
- worm
MA Standards:
English Language Arts/Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.5 Create representations of experiences or stories (e.g., drawings, constructions with blocks or other materials, clay models) and explain them to others.
Head Start Outcomes:
Approaches to Learning/Initiative and Curiosity Demonstrates flexibility, imagination, and inventiveness in approaching tasks and activities.
Logic and Reasoning/Symbolic Representation Represents people, places, or things through drawings, movement, and three-dimensional objects.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
Science and Technology/Physical Sciences 20 Create representations of experiences or stories (e.g., drawings, constructions with blocks or other materials, clay models) and explain them to others.
Worm Tunnels
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Skill Focus: Hand-Eye Coordination, Imaginative Play, Vocabulary
Invite children to look at the tunnels the worms make in the worm habitat they created this week or have children look at the illustrations of tunnels in the book Wonderful Worms. Encourage children to use blocks to build tunnels. Children can move their plastic or paper worms through the tunnels.