Learning Goals
STEM
Children will:
- Begin to understand that objects behave differently in water
- Begin to understand that some objects float and some sink
- Understand that if you add enough weight to a floating object, it will sink
- Explore how size, weight, shape, type of material and other characteristics determine whether an object sinks or floats
- Record, share, and discuss their observations and ideas
ELA
Children will:
- Recognize, match, and form uppercase and lowercase “Bb” letters (Alphabet Awareness)
- Identify letters in their names (Alphabet Awareness)
- Locate the title of a book (Concepts of Print)
- Identify number of words in a sentence (Phonological Awareness)
- Produce rhyming words (Phonological Awareness)
- Generate alliterative sentences (Phonological Awareness)
- Identify the initial sound in a word (Phonological Awareness)
- Listen for and identify the number of syllables in a word (Phonological Awareness)
- Engage in active viewing and listening (Listening and Speaking)
- Follow directions (Listening and Speaking)
- Build understanding through text-to-self and text-to-text connections (Comprehension)
- Develop comprehension by recalling and retelling details about a story (Comprehension)
- Listen to, develop an understanding of meaning, and use new concept vocabulary words about water and floating and sinking including boat, float, flow, and sink (Vocabulary)
SOCIAL EMOTIONAL
Children will:
- Continue to participate in and initiate one-on-one, small-group, and large-group conversations/discussion
- Understand group roles, rules and expectations
- Express their own needs, wants, feelings, thoughts, ideas, opinions
- Begin to initiate, organize, and participate in independent activities
- Seek answers to questions
- Sustain attention to personally chosen or routine tasks until they are completed
- Continue to take care of and manage classroom materials