Learning Goals
STEM
Children will:
- Begin to understand that plants and plant parts are an important food source for many animals, including humans
- Begin to understand that many of the foods people eat come from plants, and that we eat certain leaves and roots
- Continue to identify plant parts, including roots, stems, and leaves
- Talk about how plants that grow in soil have some parts that are underground and some that are aboveground
- Sort and classify plants and plant parts
- Identify their favorite plants to eat and graph the results
- Share, discuss, and record their observations
ELA
Children will:
- Recognize, match, and form uppercase and lowercase “Ff” (Alphabet Awareness)
- Identify parts of a book (Concepts of Print)
- Identify the first letter (“Ff”) in context of a word (farm) (Alphabet Awareness)
- Generate words with the same beginning sound in words (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)
- Use sensory descriptive words to describe story events (Comprehension)
- Interpret illustrations from a story (Comprehension)
- 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 plant, root, flower, stem, and leaves (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
- Begin to understand that it is important to respect the environment and not to harm plants and other living things