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MA Standards:
English Language Arts/Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.2 Recall information for short periods of time and retell, act out, or represent information from a text read aloud, a recording, or a video (e.g., watch a video about birds and their habitats and make drawings or constructions of birds and their nests).
Head Start Outcomes:
Language Development/Receptive Language Attends to language during conversations, songs, stories, or other learning experiences.
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.
Watch Together: “My House” #1 (BTL show)
STEM Key Concepts: Understand that people and animals live in many different kinds of homes; Appreciate that different materials are useful for making different structures and different parts of structures
ELA Focus Skills: Active Viewing, Compare and Contrast, Make Connections, Vocabulary
Before You Watch
Tell children that they are going to watch the Between the Lions video “My House.” Ask children to watch and listen for the names of different kinds of houses.
As You Watch
Play the video through so children can hear the rhythm of the song. Then replay it and pause the video to talk about the various houses.
- Make clear to children that some people, like the singer, call the place where they live a pad or a crib.
- Clarify the meaning of mansion by pointing out how big the house is. Say, Many people call a mansion a “great house” because it is so big.
- Point out the meaning of dome by tracing its shape. Say, A dome is curved.
- Clarify that a yurt is a special kind of tent used by travelers. It can easily be taken down and moved.
- Guide children to understand that the houseboat floats on the water; the house is built on stilts to keep it above the water.
- Point out that the thatched roof is covered with straw.
After You Watch
Talk about the video. Ask questions such as,
- Which of the houses in the book would you like to live in? Why?
- Which kinds of houses in the book have you been in? How was it the same as the one in the book and how was it different?
English Language Learners: Point out the pronunciation similarities between the English and Spanish words apartment/apartamento and cabin/cabina to help bridge understanding of new vocabulary.
