- Knuffle Bunny (book)
- wet sponge
- bowl
- absorb
- dawn
- dry
- evaporate
- laundry
- wet
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).
MA STE Draft Standards
Earth and Space Sciences/Earth’s Place in the Universe/ESS1.A: Observe and describe objects in the day and (if possible) the night sky
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.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Language 2: Participate actively in discussions, listen to the ideas of others, and ask and answer relevant questions.
English Language Arts/Language 3: Communicate personal experiences or interests.
Watch Together: “Mrs. McNosh Hangs Up Her Wash” (BTL show) #1
STEM Key Concepts: Wet things become dry as water evaporates (changes from a liquid to a gas)
ELA Focus Skills: Active Viewing, Listening and Speaking, Making Connections, Story Comprehension, Vocabulary
Before You Watch
Hold up the book Knuffle Bunny and ask children if they remember the story. Talk with children about how Trixie and her dad washed their laundry in a washing machine. Ask, Have you ever helped do the laundry at home? Invite children to describe what the word laundry means. Help them understand that clothes needing to be washed or clothes that have been newly washed are called laundry. Then ask, What happens when the laundry is put in the washing machine to be washed? What happens to the clothes? Guide children to note that as clothes are washed, they absorb water and get wet.
Talk about different ways families wash and dry their clothing. Ask, How are your clothes washed and dried? Does your family put your clothes in washing machine? Do they put them in a dryer? Tell children that the Lion family is going to read a story about a woman named Mrs. McNosh who washes her clothes in a barrel and then hangs the wet clothes on a clothesline to dry in the fresh air. Ask, Where do you think the water in the clothes go as they dry?
As You Watch
Model active viewing—name the characters, describe the action, and repeat the featured words.
- Encourage children to repeat the rhyming words with Leona.
- Pause after the first page. Say, Mrs. McNosh does her wash at dawn. Ask if children know what time of day dawn is. Help children grasp understanding by explaining that dawn is very early in the morning when the sun just starts to come up in the sky. Say, There is just a little bit of light in the sky at dawn.
- Pause after Cleo reads “It takes her all morning, and when the sun’s high, she hangs what she’s washed on the clothesline to dry.” Say, Mrs. McNosh washes things all morning. She hangs them up to dry when the sun is high in the sky (point directly overhead). Why do you think Mrs. McNosh wants to hang her wash up before noontime, when the sun is high in the sky? Help children understand that Mrs. McNosh hangs her wash early so that they get plenty of sun to dry. You may want to round out the cycle of the sun by mentioning that the time of day that the sun sets, or goes down, is called dusk.
After You Watch
Talk about the show with children. Ask,
- Did you like the show? Why or why not? What was your favorite part?
- Does your family hang clothes on a clothesline to dry like Mrs. McNosh?
- Where do you think the water in Mrs. McNosh’s clothes goes as they dry? Guide children to make connections to their explorations earlier in the day. Discuss how the water in the clothes evaporates, so the wet clothes become dry.
Take it Further: Each day for a week, bring children outside a few times during the day––in the mornings when children come in, at lunch time, and again before they leave at the end of the day— to help them understand how the sun moves through the sky. Point out the direction the sun rises in the morning, where it is at midday, and where it sets at night. Encourage children to have their family members watch for the sun setting in the evening.
