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MA Standards:
Speaking and Listening: SL.PK.MA.2 Recall information for short periods of time and retell, act out, or represent information from a text read aloud, a recording, or a video (e.g., watch a video about birds and their habitats and make drawings or constructions of birds and their nests).
Head Start Outcomes:
Language Development/Expressive Language Engages in storytelling.
Language Development/Receptive Language Attends to language during conversations, songs, stories, or other learning experiences.
Language Development/Expressive Language Engages in communication and conversation with others.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Language 2 Participate actively in discussions, listen to the ideas of others, and ask and answer relevant questions.
Mathematics/Number Sense 3 Use positional language and ordinal numbers (first, second, third) in everyday activities.
Watch Together: “Huff and Puff” #2 (BTL show)
STEM Key Concepts: How you design and build a structure helps determine how strong it will be; Different materials are useful for making different structures and different parts of structures
ELA Focus Skills: Active Viewing, Listening and Speaking, Recall and Retell, Sequencing, Vocabulary
Before You Watch
Tell children they are going to watch the Between the Lions video “Huff and Puff” again. Set a viewing focus for children by having them notice what events happen first, next, and last in the story because noticing what happens first, next, and last helps them to understand and remember what they see and listen to.
As You Watch
- Encourage children to read as many words as possible as they are highlighted on the screen.
- Invite the group to chime in on the pigs’ and the wolf’s repeating lines.
After You Watch
Invite children to recall or act out the main story events in order. You may need to replay parts of the video to help children recall the events. Ask,
- What happens first in the story? (the pigs build houses)
- What happens next? (the wolf blows in the straw house and the stick house)
- What happens next? (the wolf climbs down the chimney of the brick house)
- What happens last? (the pigs live happily ever after)
Have volunteers act out each event in order.
Adaptation: For younger children or those struggling with the concepts of first, next, and last have three children line up one behind the other. Explain that the “first” child (or event) is the one that comes before all the others; have the first child take two steps forward. Then explain that the “next” child (or event) is the one that comes right after the “first” one; have the next child in line take two steps forward. Then explain that the “last” child (or event) is the one that has no one (or nothing) following it; have the last child take two steps forward. Then have children turn around and repeat.
