- A Fruit Is a Suitcase for Seeds (book)
- fruit
- pod
- seed
MA Standards:
Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.1a: Observe and use appropriate ways of interacting in a group (e.g., taking turns in talking, listening to peers, waiting to speak until another person is finished talking, asking questions and waiting for an answer, gaining the floor in appropriate ways).
Head Start Outcomes:
Social Emotional Development/Self-Regulation: Follows simple rules, routines, and directions.
Logic and Reasoning/Reasoning and Problem Solving: Classifies, compares, and contrasts objects, events, and experiences.
Language Development/Receptive Language: Attends to language during conversations, songs, stories, or other learning experiences.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Language 1: Observe and use appropriate ways of interacting in a group (taking turns in talking; listening to peers; waiting until someone is finished; asking questions and waiting for an answer; gaining the floor in appropriate ways).
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 12: Listen to, recite, sing, and dramatize a variety of age-appropriate literature.
Recite Together: “Five Fat Peas”
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STEM Key Concepts: Many foods that animals, including humans, eat come from plants; We eat certain leaves, roots, fruits, and seeds; Fruits have seeds; Seeds hold what a plant needs to make more of itself
ELA Focus Skills: Listening and Speaking, Phonological Awareness (Rhythm and Rhyme), Vocabulary
Display the page in A Fruit Is a Suitcase for Seeds that says, “Peas are seeds.” Point out the open pea pod on the vine. Guide children to understand that the pod holds the seeds (peas). Ask, Who do you think opened the pea pod?
- Tell children you are going to read a poem about five fat peas. Draw attention to the open pea pods and explain that if a seed grows too big inside the pea pod, the pod will split open. Say, Let’s hear a poem about pea pods popping!
- Recite the rhyme for children, using the appropriate gestures. Then invite children to join in and recite the rhyme with you.
Five Fat Peas
Five fat peas in a pea pod pressed, (hold hand in a fist)
One grew, two grew, so did all the rest. (put fingers up one by one)
They grew and grew (raise hand in the air very slowly)
And did not stop,
Until one day
The pod went POP! (clap hands together)