Play Together: Flower, Fruit, Vegetable

MA Standards:

Language/L.PK.MA.1: Demonstrate use of oral language in informal everyday activities.

Head Start Outcomes:

Language Development/Receptive Language: Attends to language during conversations, songs, stories, or other learning experiences.

PreK Learning Guidelines:

English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 12: Listen to, recite, sing, and dramatize a variety of age-appropriate literature.

EEC Infant and Toddler Guidelines

PW50.: The older toddler engages in a variety of physical activities.

ELA Focus Skills: Follow Directions, Motor Skills, Vocabulary

Play a game of “Duck, Duck, Goose,” but change the words to “Flower, Fruit, Vegetable.”

Have children sit in a circle. Pick a child to be the “gardener,” then review the rules of the game.

The gardener will walk around the circle, gently tapping each person and saying “flower, fruit, flower, fruit, flower, fruit” until she or he taps someone and says “Vegetable!”
When the gardener says, “Vegetable,” that child stands up and chases the gardener around the circle until the gardener gets back to the empty spot and sits down.
If the gardener sits down before the child tags her or him, that child becomes the next gardener.
If the child tags the gardener before the gardener can sit down, then the gardener has to try again.

Continue until all children have had a chance to be the gardener.

Educator Tip: Be sure to discuss game rules about tapping and tagging gently and running carefully.