Learning Goals
STEM
Children will:
- Continue to explore how different materials are used for making different kinds of structures and different parts of structures
- Begin to understand that how you design and build a structure helps determine how strong it will be
- Continue to learn about tools and the ways builders use them
- Begin to understand how an environment or location can determine materials used for building homes
- Continue to compare and categorize materials based on their properties
- Make predictions based on their observations
- Record, share, and discuss their observations
ELA
Children will:
- Recognize, match, and form uppercase and lowercase “Tt” (Alphabet Knowledge)
- Identify the first letter (“Tt”) in the context of a word (tool) (Alphabet Knowledge)
- Identify environmental print (Concepts of Print)
- Engage in active viewing and listening (Listening and Speaking)
- Begin to develop awareness of sounds in language by clapping to words in a sentence (Phonological Awareness)
- Identify beginning sounds in words (/t/) (Phonological Awareness)
- Begin to listen for ending sounds in words (Phonological Awareness)
- Repeat alliterative sentences (Phonological Awareness)
- Build understanding through text-to-self and text-to-text connections (Comprehension)
- Interpret illustrations from a story (Comprehension)
- Make and confirm predictions about a story (Comprehension)
- Practice identifying story sequence (Comprehension)
- Begin to understand the genre folktale (Book Appreciation)
- Be exposed to new concept vocabulary in cross-curricular ways (Vocabulary)
- Listen to, develop an understanding of meaning, and use new concept vocabulary words about building including build, building, carpenter, high, roof, steep, strong, structure, tool, wall, weight, and materials (Vocabulary)
SOCIAL EMOTIONAL
Children will:
- Participate in one-on-one, small-group, and large-group conversations/discussions
- Show some 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
- Express empathy and sympathy to others
- Begin to initiate, organize, and participate in independent activities
- Seek answers to questions
- Continue to sustain attention to personally chosen or routine tasks until they are completed
- Show improvement in taking care of and managing classroom materials