- “Fruits, Vegetables, Seeds” chart
- marker
- seed
- travel
MA Standards:
Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.1: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners during daily routines and play.
Language/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: Outdoor Seeds
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STEM Key Concepts: Seeds hold what a plant needs to make more of itself
ELA Focus Skills: Listening and Speaking, Vocabulary
Ask children if they brought in any seeds they found on their way home from school yesterday or on their way in today. Invite children to describe the seeds, and introduce the idea that seeds travel from one place to another. Help children think about how seeds from one plant might move to many different places by asking questions like:
- Have you ever seen plants growing in a place with no other plants around? Ask, How do you think the plant got there? How do you think the seed got there?
- Have you ever seen seeds blow in the wind (dandelion fluff for example)? Where do you think the seeds came from? What do you think happened to those seeds?
- If you have a pet, have you ever noticed any seeds stuck to your pet’s fur? What do you think might happen to those seeds if your pet stayed outside?
Tell children they are going to explore the seed collections they gathered yesterday and learn more about how seeds travel, or how they move from one place (the parent plant they came from) to another.