- fiesta
- garden
- plant
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) #1
STEM Key Concepts: Plants grow in many places; There are many different types of plants; 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, Story Comprehension, Recall and Retell, Vocabulary
Tell children that they are going to watch the show Between the Lions “Chicks and Salsa.” Set a viewing focus for children by having them notice the plant foods the animals get out of the garden to make their recipes.
- Pause each time the animals are in the garden and ask children to name what foods they think the animals are going to take. Ask, What part of the plant is a <food name>?
- Pause each time the narrator says “. . . though nobody was quite certain where the <animals> got the <food>.” Ask, Why do you think the animals did not get the chips, avocados, and the cheese sauce from the garden? (chips, cheese sauce/not plant foods; avocado/not grown in their garden) Where DID the animals get the <food>?
- Pause on the fiesta and explain that a fiesta is a celebration.
After viewing, ask,
- Have you ever eaten any of the plants the animals took from the garden? How would you describe it?
- Have you ever eaten any of the dishes the animals made from the plants in the garden? How would you describe what it tastes like?
- What is your favorite part of the story? Tell what happened in your own words.
- Who is your favorite character? Why?
