Unit Learning Goals
STEM
Children will:
- Understand that there are many different types of plants and seeds
- Understand that some plants grow from seeds, and others grow from bulbs
- Begin to recognize, identify, and compare parts of plants including roots, stems, and leaves
- Observe that plants grow in different places and in different types of soil
- Observe, describe, sort, draw, and compare seeds and plants
- Understand that plants get their needs met from the environment (their habitat)
- Recognize that plants, and animals, including humans, have basic needs in common
- Observe and describe plants in their natural habitats
- Observe and describe cultivated plants
- Predict, measure, and record changes in plant growth using nonstandard and standard measurement tools
- Create graphs to display and compare growth
- Record their observations by drawing, dictating, and “writing”
- Share and discuss their observations
ELA
Children will:
- Recognize, match, and form upper and lowercase “Ss,” “Gg,” “Kk” and “Ww” (Alphabet Awareness)
- Understands sentences are made up of words (Concepts of Print)
- Recognize that text is read from left to right (Concepts of Print)
- Understand and follow steps in a process (Listening and Speaking)
- Identify beginning sounds (/s/, /g/, /k/ and /w/) (Phonological Awareness)
- Listen to and produce rhyming words (Phonological Awareness)
- Recite and produce alliterative sentences (Phonological Awareness)
- Engage in active viewing and listening (Listening and Speaking)
- Build understanding through text-to-self and text-to-text connections (Comprehension)
- Make and confirm predictions using background knowledge and context clues (Comprehension)
- Recall and retell details in the order they happen in a text (Comprehension)
- Predict cause and effect (Comprehension)
- Ask questions about unfamiliar words in a story or text (Comprehension)
- Make connections (Comprehension)
- Listen to, develop an understanding of meaning, and use new concept vocabulary words about building structures, such as: bulb, soil, environment, ground, grow, leaves, plant, root, seed, sunlight, sprout, and stem. (Vocabulary)
SOCIAL EMOTIONAL
Children will:
- Show self confidence in their abilities as they share ideas with others
- Initiate and participate in multi-exchange discussions
- Express own needs, wants, feelings, thoughts, ideas, opinions
- Begin to initiate, organize, and participate in independent activities
- Seeks answers to questions
- Continue to sustain attention to personally chosen or routine tasks until they are completed
- Continue to understand character traits such as honesty, kindness, fairness, trustworthiness, and personal responsibility
- Shows improvement in taking care of and managing classroom materials
- Understand and respect group roles, rules, and expectations
- Begin to understand the importance of helping others