Learning Goals
STEM
Children will:
- Continue to understand that all living things have basic needs
- Continue to explore plant growth and what plants need to survive and grow
- Continue to explore the parts of plants and identify parts including roots, stems, and leaves
- Compare and contrast parts of plants
- Observe and compare indoor and outdoor plants and their parts
- Create graphs to track plant growth
- Record their observations in their science notebooks and share them in discussion
ELA
Children will:
- Recognize, match, and form uppercase and lowercase “Kk” (Alphabet Awareness)
- Identify the first letter (“Kk”) in context of a word (kitchen) (Alphabet Awareness)
- Identify beginning sounds in words and produce words with the same beginning sound (/k/) (Phonological Awareness)
- Repeat 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)
- Interpret illustrations from a story (Comprehension)
- Make and confirm predictions about a story (Comprehension)
- Identify story sequence (Comprehension)
- Engage in active viewing and listening (Listening and Speaking)
- 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 planting including bulb, environment, flower, leaves, plant, root, seed, sprout, and stem (Vocabulary)
SOCIAL EMOTIONAL
Children will:
- Participate in one-on-one, small-group, and large-group conversations/discussions
- Begin to initiate, organize, and participate in independent activities
- Understand and respect group roles, rules, and expectations
- Begin to understand the importance of helping others