- assortment of vegetables (include those featured in Chicks and Salsa and Eating the Alphabet, for example, tomato, grapes, cabbage, cucumber, beans, limes, carrot, cauliflower, etc.)
- plant
MA Standards:
Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.1: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners during daily routines and play.
L.PK.MA.6: Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, listening to books read aloud, activities, and play.
Head Start Outcomes:
Language Development/Receptive Language: Attends to language during conversations, songs, stories, or other learning experiences.
Language Development/Expressive Language: Uses language to express ideas and needs.
Logic and Reasoning/Reasoning and Problem Solving: Classifies, compares, and contrasts objects, events, and experiences.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Language 2: Participate actively in discussions, listen to the ideas of others, and ask and answer relevant questions.
Talk Together: Plants Taste Good
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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: Listening and Speaking, Vocabulary
Safety Tips:
- Remind children to wash their hands before and after the activity.
- Children’s food allergies need to be taken into account before allowing children to eat any foods.
Display an assortment of vegetables similar to those you displayed on Day 2. Ask children, What have you learned about plants we eat? Have children identify and point to the parts of the plants: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruit, and seeds. Encourage them to handle the vegetables as they describe the colors, textures, and smell of the plants, and how the plants taste.
Adaptation: If children have difficulty putting their ideas into words to tell one thing they learned, provide sentence frames for them to complete, such as “I learned that peppers grow on a ______” or “A mango is a kind of _____.”