Learning Goals
STEM
Children will:
- Begin to understand that water flows downhill
- Explore how to change the direction of water flow
- Begin to understand that you can change the direction water flows by digging paths or building walls and dams
- Use tools to move water from one container to another
- Share ideas, make predictions, and record their observations to build on their explorations
ELA
Children will:
- Recognize, match, and form uppercase and lowercase “Rr” and “Dd” (Alphabet Awareness)
- Identify the first letter (“Rr,” “Dd”) in context of a word (river, dam) (Alphabet Awareness)
- Develop awareness of sounds in language by clapping to words in a sentence (Phonological Awareness)
- Identify beginning sounds in words (/d/ and /r/) (Phonological Awareness)
- Generate rhyming words (Phonological Awareness)
- Engage in active viewing and listening (Listening and Speaking)
- Build understanding through text-to-self and text-to-text connections (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 water including stream, river, flow, and pump (Vocabulary)
SOCIAL EMOTIONAL
Children will:
- Participate in one-on-one, small-group, and large-group conversations/discussions
- Show some understanding of group roles, rules, and expectations
- Express their own needs, wants, feelings, thoughts, ideas, and opinions
- 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
- Show improvement in taking care of and managing classroom materials
- Participate in one-on-one, small-group, and large-group