- children's structures from the week
- photos of children’s structures
- pictures of houses
- toy houses
- piece of cardboard
- builder
- materials
- roof
- strong
- wall
MA Standards:
Speaking and Listening: SL.PK.MA.1a Observe and use appropriate ways of interacting in a group (e.g., taking turns in talking, listening to peers, waiting to speak until another person is finished talking, asking questions and waiting for an answer, gaining the floor in appropriate ways).
Head Start Outcomes:
Logic and Reasoning/Reasoning and Problem Solving Classifies, compares, and contrasts objects, events, and experiences.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Language 1 Observe and use appropriate ways of interacting in a group (taking turns in talking; listening to peers; waiting until someone is finished; asking questions and waiting for an answer; gaining the floor in appropriate ways).
Mathematics/Patterns and Relations 8 Sort, categorize, or classify objects by more than one attribute.
Talk Together: Walls of a House
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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: Comparing and Contrasting, Listening and Speaking, Predicting, Vocabulary
Continue to discuss houses and parts of a house. Display the toy house, children’s structures from yesterday, photos of houses and buildings children have built. Have children point to and identify parts of a house. Ask,
- Why is it important to build roofs and walls out of strong materials?
- What do you think would happen if a builder used cardboard to build a roof? Walls?