- drawing materials
- paper (one sheet per child)
- loud
- low
- sound
MA Standards:
Writing: W.PK.MA.2 Use a combination of dictating and drawing to explain information about a topic.
Head Start Outcomes:
Social Emotional Development/Social Relationships Recognizes and labels others’ emotions.
Social Emotional Development/Self-Regulation Recognizes and labels emotions.
Literacy Knowledge/Early Writing Uses scribbles, shapes, pictures, and letters to represent objects, stories, experiences, or ideas.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
Health Education 16 Recognize and describe or represent emotions such as happiness, surprise, anger, fear, sadness.
Draw and Write Together: Abiyoyo the Giant
© Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Early Education and Care (Jennifer Waddell photographer). All rights reserved.
ELA Focus Skills: Listening and Speaking, Vocabulary
Give each child a sheet of paper. Write “Abiyoyo the Giant” on the top. Tell children you want them to dictate or write a word that describes how they think the giant sounds when he sings, talks, or walks.
Help children recall the story. Say, Abiyoyo is a big, huge, scary giant. What do you think his voice would sound like? Why? You may want to give an example such as, I think Abiyoyo’s voice would be a loud, booming sound like an elephant’s sound. I think he would have a low voice like a growl. Mimic the sounds.
Have children dictate as you write their description on their page. Then have them draw a picture of Abiyoyo. Hang the pictures in the Writing Center for children to share through the week.