Learning Goals
Children will:
STEM
- Begin to understand that plants provide an important food source for many animals, including humans
- Begin to understand that we eat certain leaves and roots
- Begin to understand that families eat food from plants, but they may eat food from different plants or prepare it in different ways
- Begin 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 above ground
- Compare and contrast indoor and outdoor plants
- 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 “Vv” (Alphabet Awareness)
- Identify the first letter (“Vv”) in context of a word (vegetable) (Alphabet Awareness)
- Identify parts of a book (Concepts of Print)
- Identify beginning sounds in words and produce words with the same beginning sound (/v/) (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)
- 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 flower, leaf, plant, root, stem, and vegetable (Vocabulary)
SOCIAL EMOTIONAL
Children will:
- Begin to understand that many people and families eat food from plants, but they may eat food from different plants or prepare it in different ways
- 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