- marker
- photos taken during the week
- “We Use Tools” chart
- build
- building
- materials
- roof
- shape
- wall
MA Standards:
English Language Arts/Reading for Informational Text/RI.P.MA.7 With prompting and support, describe important details from an illustration or photograph.
Mathematics/Geometry/PK.G.MA.2 Identify various two-dimensional shapes using appropriate language.
MA Draft STE Standards:
Physical Sciences/Matter and Its Interactions/PS1.A Describe, compare, sort and classify objects based on observable physical characteristics, uses, and whether it is manufactured as part of their classroom play and investigations of the natural and human-made world.
Head Start Outcomes:
Logic and Reasoning/Reasoning and Problem Solving Classifies, compares, and contrasts objects, events, and experiences.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
Mathematics/Patterns and Relations 8 Sort, categorize, or classify objects by more than one attribute.
Mathematics/Shapes and Spatial Sense 10 Investigate and identify materials of various shapes, using appropriate language.
Talk Together: Inside a Building
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ELA Focus Skills: Concepts of Print, Listening and Speaking, Vocabulary
Display the materials, along with photos, drawings, and recordings children made this week. Review with children what they have learned this week.
- Have children look around the room and name parts of the room. (walls, floor, window)
- Now have them name some of the materials used in building parts of the room. (wood, brick)
- Have children describe the materials and why they think the builder chose those materials.
- Finally, look for shapes in different parts of the room. (rectangle/door, square/window, rectangle/ceiling, etc.)