Week 4: Puddles and Water Drops

Learning Goals

STEM

Children will:

  • Begin to understand that some surfaces absorb water; some don’t
  • Begin to understand that wet things become dry as water evaporates (changes from a liquid to a gas)
  • Observe that when water flows very slowly, it can start to drip
  • Begin to understand that water sticks together by observing water drops and how they behave
  • Use tools such as eyedroppers and toothpicks to move water across a surface
  • Share ideas, make predictions, and record their observations to build on their explorations

ELA

Children will:

  • Recognize, match, and form uppercase and lowercase “Uu” (Alphabet Awareness)
  • Identify the first letter (“Uu”) in context of a word (up) (Alphabet Awareness)
  • Engage in active viewing and listening (Listening and Speaking)
  • Develop awareness of sounds in language by clapping to words in a sentence (Phonological Awareness)
  • Identify beginning sounds in words (short /u/) (Phonological Awareness)
  • Generate 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)
  • Listen to, develop an understanding of meaning, and use new concept vocabulary words about water including absorb, evaporate, drop, drip, and flow (Vocabulary)

SOCIAL EMOTIONAL

Children will:

  • Participate in one-on-one, small-group, and large-group conversations/discussions
  • Appropriately express a range of emotions, such as excitement, happiness, sadness, and fear
  • Show some understanding of group roles, rules, and expectations
  • Begin to initiate, organize, and participate in independent activities
  • Seek answers to questions
  • Continue to sustain attention to personally chosen or routine tasks until they are completed
  • Take care of and manage classroom materials
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