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 use standard and nonstandard measuring tools and begin to estimate to build to size
- Raise questions by building and making representations of structures
- Continue to compare and categorize materials based on their characteristics
- Make predictions based on their observations
- Record, share, and discuss their observations
ELA
Children will:
- Identify the first letter (“Xx”) in context of a word (x-ray) (Alphabet Knowledge)
- Identify environmental print (Concepts of Print)
- Begin to clap to words in a sentence (Phonological Awareness)
- Repeat and generate 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)
- Retell story sequence (Comprehension)
- 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:
- Initiate and participate in multi-exchange conversations/discussions
- Learn group roles, rules, and expectations
- Talk about fairness, forgiveness, and personal responsibility in their own experiences and in stories read to them
- Begin to understand character traits such as honesty, kindness, fairness, trustworthiness, and personal responsibility
- Express needs, wants, feelings, thoughts, ideas, and opinions
- Begin to initiate, organize, and participate in independent activities
- Continue to sustain attention to personally chosen or routine tasks until they are completed
- Show improvement in taking care of and managing classroom materials