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drawing materials
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MA Standards:
Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.2: Recall information for short periods of time and retell, act out, or represent information from a text read aloud, a recording, or a video (e.g., watch a video about birds and their habitats and make drawings or constructions of birds and their nests).
Head Start Outcomes:
Language Development/Receptive Language: Attends to language during conversations, songs, stories, or other learning experiences.
Logic and Reasoning/Reasoning and Problem Solving: Classifies, compares, and contrasts objects, events, and experiences.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 12: Listen to, recite, sing, and dramatize a variety of age-appropriate literature.
Watch Together: “Chicks and Salsa” (BTL show) #3
STEM Key Concepts: Many foods that animals, including humans, eat come from plants; We eat certain leaves, roots, fruits, and seeds
ELA Focus Skills: Active Viewing, Listening and Speaking, Vocabulary
Before You Watch
Tell children they will be watching the video Between the Lions “Chicks and Salsa” again. Set a listening focus by asking children to listen for all the different vegetables that they know that are used in the recipes.
As You Watch
Model active viewing.
- Pause when the animals are preparing their new foods. Ask, What plants did the (chicken/ducks/pigs) take from the garden to make the (salsa/guacamole/nachos)? Have you ever tasted (salsa/guacamole/nachos) before? Encourage children to use sensory descriptive language to describe each food.
- Encourage children to chime in when the rooster says “Olé!” and “Ooh, la, la!”
After You Watch
Talk with children about the video. Ask questions such as,
- How did the rooster get the idea to make new foods? (watching cooking show)
- What yummy vegetables does Cleo use to make salsa on her cooking show? Are there any of the vegetables she used ones that you would like to try in a recipe?
- Do you recognize any of the vegetables the animals used as one your family uses in a recipe?
