- leaf
- plant
- root
- vegetable
MA Standards:
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).
Mathematics/Counting and Cardinality/PK.CC.MA.1: Listen to and say the names of numbers in meaningful contexts.
Mathematics/Counting and Cardinality/PK.CC.MA.2: Recognize and name written numerals 0-10.
Head Start Outcomes
Social Emotional Development/Self-Regulation: Follows simple rules, routines, and directions.
Logic and Reasoning/Reasoning and Problem Solving: Classifies, compares, and contrasts objects, events, and experiences.
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.
Mathematics/Number Sense 1: Listen to and say the names of numbers in meaningful contexts.
Mathematics/Number Sense 2: Connect many kinds/quantities of concrete objects and actions to numbers.
Recite Together: Five Fine Carrots
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ELA Focus Skills: Phonological Skills (Rhyme), Counting, Fine Motor Skills, Vocabulary
Teach children a chant about a carrot. Say, Carrots are a vegetable. Talk with children about what they have learned about carrots. Ask, Is the carrot the root or leaf of the carrot plant? Do you think a carrot grows aboveground or underground? Why do you think so?
Recite the chant once and tell children to say “YUM” after you say, “I ate one.” Recite the chant a second time and have children act out the motions with you.
Five Fine Carrots
Five fine carrots in a garden by my door, (hold up five fingers)
I ate one . . . YUM . . . and then there were four. (fold one finger down, four remain up)
Four fine carrots, happy as could be,
I ate one . . . YUM . . . and then there were three. (fold one finger down, three remain up)
Three fine carrots, in the ground where they grew,
I ate one . . . YUM . . . and then there were two. (fold one finger down, two remain up)
Two fine carrots growing in the sun,
I ate one . . . YUM . . . and then there was one. (fold one finger down, one remains up)
One fine carrot sleeps when day is done,
I put it in my salad . . . YUM . . . and then there were none! (make a zero with thumb and index finger)