- crayons and markers
- magazine pictures of objects with wheels
- paper
- wheel-shaped pasta
- wheel
MA Standards:
Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.5: Create representations of experiences or stories (e.g., drawings, constructions with blocks or other materials, clay models) and explain them to others.
Head Start Outcomes:
Approaches to Learning/Initiative and Curiosity: Demonstrates flexibility, imagination, and inventiveness in approaching tasks and activities.
Literacy Knowledge/Early Writing: Uses scribbles, shapes, pictures, and letters to represent objects, stories, experiences, or ideas.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Composition 16: Use their own words or illustrations to describe their experiences, tell imaginative stories, or communicate information about a topic of interest.
Pasta-Wheel Pictures
© Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Early Education and Care (Jennifer Waddell photographer). All rights reserved.
Skill Focus: Creative Expression, Small Motor Skills, Vocabulary
Display pictures of objects that have wheels. Then invite children to draw an object they know or that they have used that has wheels.
Once children have completed their drawings have them glue on the wheel-shaped pasta to represent the wheels in their picture.
Encourage children to share their pictures with a buddy when they are done.
- Have them talk about how the wheels help the object move.
Allow children to take their pictures home or add them to your wall display.