- pictures of a produce aisle at the grocery store
- farm stand
- fruit
- grocery
- plant
- produce
- vegetable
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: What’s at the Grocery Store?
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STEM Key Concepts: There are many different types of plants and seeds
ELA Focus Skills: Compare and Contrast, Follow Directions, Listening and Speaking, Vocabulary
Review what children know about fruits and vegetables. Talk about the outdoor explorations they had, the visit to the farm, and the growth of their indoor plants. Ask children, Where does your family get most of the plant foods they eat? Do they get them from a farm or garden or do they go to a grocery store to buy the plants you eat?
Hold up a photo of the produce section of a grocery store and discuss with children. Explain that this is the produce section of a grocery store. Ask,
- What do you notice as you look at this part of the store? What do they have in the “produce section”?
- Where do you think all of the fruits and vegetables come from?
Discuss how most of the fruits and vegetables have been cultivated at many different farms, gardens, and companies around the world. Tell children they will have a chance to see fruits and vegetables and other foods when they visit a grocery store.