- avocado
- salsa ingredients, if possible (tomato, onion, garlic, cilantro, and lime)
- recipe
- salsa
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.
Logic and Reasoning/Symbolic Representation: Engages in pretend play and acts out roles.
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) #2
STEM Key Concepts: There are many different types of plants; Plants have different parts: roots, stems, and leaves; Many foods we eat come from plants; We eat certain leaves, roots, fruits, and seeds
ELA Focus Skills: Active Viewing, Listening and Speaking, Story Comprehension, Vocabulary
Tell children they are going to watch the video Between the Lions “Chicks and Salsa” again. Have fun as you act out different events in the show with children. Say, I will pause the video when we hear some words describing what the animals are doing or how the food is being made. When I pause the video, we will act out the scene on the screen.
For example, pause after:
- The chickens are grumbling in the hen house. Say, Let’s all grumble like the chickens.
- The chickens creep into the garden. Act out creeping into the garden and picking tomatoes off the plant and onions out of the ground. Ask, Where do we uproot the onions from? Guide children to stoop down to pick them out of the ground. Then ask, Where do we pick the tomatoes from?
- The ducks are mumbling at the pond. Say, Let’s mumble like the tired ducks at the pond.
- The ducks dip into the garden. Act out dipping into the garden and getting some garlic out of the ground and cilantro off the plant. Ask, Where do we get the garlic from? Guide children to stoop down to pick the garlic out of the ground. Then ask, Where do we pick the cilantro from?
- The pigs are rumbling in the pigpen. Say, Let’s rumble like the pigs.
- The pigs plod into the garden. Act out plodding into the garden and getting some beans from the vine and chilies from the plant. Ask, Where do we get the beans from? Guide children to reach to pick them off the vine. Then ask, Where do we pick the chilies from?
You can extend the activity for a longer period if you have time. If so, you may want to have props for children as they act out the fiesta celebration with the animals on the video.
