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MA Standards:
English Language Arts/Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.1: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners during daily routines and play.
English Language Arts/Language/L.PK.MA.1: Demonstrate use of oral language in informal everyday activities.
Head Start Outcomes:
Science Knowledge/Scientific Skills and Method: Collects, describes, and records information through discussions, drawings, maps, and charts.
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.
Talk Together: I Can Do It!
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ELA Focus Skills: Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary
Display page 38 of The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper. Have children share what they remember of the story with you. When they get to the part where the engine hitched herself up to the train and started to climb the hill, ask children if they can remember what the Little Blue Engine said as she climbed the hill.
If children do not remember, say, I think I can! I think I can! I think I can! Discuss how the Little Blue Engine kept pulling up the hill even when it was hard to do. She did not give up.
Have children share a time they were afraid to go down an inclined plane, for example, sledding down a hill, going down the slide, rolling down a hill, etc. You may want to initiate by sharing a time you were afraid. Then ask,
- What do you think made you afraid to go down the hill? What happens when you roll down a really steep hill? Encourage children to talk about the steepness of the hill.
- Talk about how many things are easier to do after you try them over and over again. Then sing “I Can Do It” with children.
I Can Do It
(sung to the tune of “London Bridge is Falling Down”)
I can do it, yes I can,
Yes I can,
Yes I can.
I can do it, yes I can,
All by myself!
At first I was a little afraid,
A little afraid,
A little afraid.
At first I was a little afraid,
But I tried it any way!
I had to try it over and over,
Over and over,
Over and over.
I had to try it over and over,
And then I did it!
I can do it, yes I can,
Yes I can,
Yes I can.
I can do it, yes I can,
All by myself!