Learning Goals
STEM
Children will:
- Learn that different materials are often used for making different kinds of structures and different parts of structures
- Begin to understand that different materials and/or different sizes, shapes, and textures of materials may work better in different parts of a structure
- Identify and name two-dimensional shapes in buildings
- Understand that how you design and build a structure helps determine how strong it will be
- Recognize that walls, roofs, and bridges need to be supported in special ways
- Recognize that objects can be sorted by properties such as size, shape, color, weight, and texture
- Recognize two-dimensional shapes
- Understand and identify cause and effect
ELA
Children will:
- Recognize, match, and form uppercase and lowercase letters (Alphabet Knowledge)
- Ask questions about unfamiliar words in a story or text (Comprehension)
- Make connections between their lives and stories (Comprehension)
- Predict events using context clues and confirm predictions (Comprehension)
- Recall and retell details in sequence (Comprehension)
- Identify main ideas and events in a text (Comprehension)
- Understands sentences are made up of words and word spaces (Concepts of Print)
- Recognize differences between fantasy and reality in a story (Genre)
- Compare different versions of a folktale (Genre)
- Begin to understand and follow steps in a process (Listening and Speaking)
- Identify some beginning sounds and ending sounds (Phonological Awareness)
- Listen and produce rhyming words (Phonological Awareness)
- Identify and produce alliterative sentences (Phonological Awareness)
- Listen to, develop an understanding of meaning, and use new concept vocabulary words about ramps and rolling including blueprint, build, building, material, roof, strong, stronger, surface, tools, wall structure (Vocabulary)
SOCIAL EMOTIONAL
Children will:
- Participate in one-on-one, small-group, and large-group conversations and discussions (listen to the ideas of others; work together to problem-solve; engage in taking turns)
- Continue to show an understanding of group roles, rules, and expectations
- Begin to understand how one’s actions affect others
- Express their own needs, wants, feelings, thoughts, ideas, and opinions
- Begin to initiate, organize, and participate in independent activities
- Seek answers to questions
- Continue learning how to take care of and manage classroom materials