- Between the Lions library cards
- "Taking Care of Books" chart
- borrow
- library
MA Standards:
Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.1: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners during daily routines and play.
Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.1a: Observe and use appropriate ways of interacting in a group.
Language/L.PK: MA.1: Demonstrate use of oral language in informal everyday activities.
Foundational Skills/RF.PK.MA.1.a: Handle books respectfully and appropriately, holding them right-side-up and turning pages one at a time from front to back.
Social Emotional/Interpersonal Relationships 7.3: Describe the concept of friendship and contrast qualities that strengthen or weaken a friendship, including the importance of sound character in interacting with others.
Head Start Outcomes:
Social Emotional Development/Social Relationships: Cooperates with others.
Approaches to Learning/Initiative & Curiosity: Demonstrates flexibility, imagination, and inventiveness in approaching tasks and activities.
Approaches to Learning/Cooperation: Helps, shares, and cooperates in a group.
Logic & Reasoning/Problem Solving: Uses past knowledge to build new knowledge.
Logic & Reasoning/Symbolic Representation: Engages in pretend play and acts out roles.
Language Development/Expressive Language: Engages in communication and conversation with others.
Language Development/Expressive Language: Uses language to express ideas and needs.
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/Language 4: Engage in play experiences that involve naming and sorting common words into various classifications using general and specific language.
English Language Arts/Language 5: Listen to and use formal and informal language.
Health Education 18: Talk about how people can be helpful/hurtful to one another.
Small Group: Off to the Library
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Gather a small group of children to play “Off to the Library” (Pretend and Play Center activity).
Encourage children to work as a group. Talk about ways children can work together and use some of the qualities they are learning about taking turns, listening to other children’s ideas, and helping one another when a child does not know how to do something.
Make sure that children have their library cards that they made in the Art Center. Remind them to bring their card with them if they want to borrow any books from the library. Review the “Taking Care of Books” chart displayed in the Library Center.