- writing and drawing materials
- apartment
- bedroom
- color
- family
- home
- house
- inside
- kitchen
- living room
- outside
- room
MA Standards:
English Language Arts/Writing/W.PK.MA.2 Use a combination of dictating and drawing to explain information about a topic.
Head Start Outcomes:
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.
My Home
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Skill Focus: Concepts of Print (Print Conveys Meaning, Word Spaces), Dictating Words and Sentences, Fine Motor Skills, Letter Recognition, Vocabulary, Writing Name
Demonstrate the activity by drawing a picture or show a photo of your home. Under the picture, write a short, simple sentence describing your home.
Have children draw pictures of the inside or outside of their homes. Ask questions to encourage children to talk about their pictures. Ask, What color is your house? What is your favorite room in the house (or apartment)? Let children write or dictate a sentence or caption to put under their drawings. Point to each word as you read the caption aloud with each child. Create a wall display with the drawings or bind them together into a class book labeled Our Houses.