- various paired toys: dolls and dollhouses, plastic people and toy cars, etc.
- fit
- size
MA Standards:
English Language Arts/Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.1a Observe and use appropriate ways of interacting in a group (e.g., taking turns in talking, listening to peers, waiting to speak until another person is finished talking, asking questions and waiting for an answer, gaining the floor in appropriate ways).
Mathematics/Measurement and Data/PK.MD.MA.1 Recognize the attributes of length, area, weight, and capacity of everyday objects using appropriate vocabulary (e.g., long, short, tall heavy, lights, big, small, wide, narrow).
Mathematics/Measurement and Data/PK.MD.MA.2 Compare the attributes of length and weight for two objects, including longer/shorter, same length; heavier/lighter, same weight; holds more/less, holds the same amount.
MA Draft STE Standards:
Physical Sciences/Matter and Its Interactions: Structure and Properties of Matter/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:
Language Development/Receptive Language Attends to language during conversations, songs, stories, or other learning experiences.
Language Development/Expressive Language Uses language to express ideas and needs.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Language 1 Observe and use appropriate ways of interacting in a group (taking turns in talking; listening to peers; waiting until someone is finished; asking questions and waiting for an answer; gaining the floor in appropriate ways).
Mathematics/Patterns and Relations 7 Explore and describe a wide variety of concrete objects by their attributes.
Mathematics/Patterns and Relations 8 Sort, categorize, or classify objects by more than one attribute.
Talk Together: Building to Fit
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ELA Focus Skills: Listening and Speaking, Measuring, Vocabulary
Ask children to look at the toys. Say, Some of these toys fit together. Show how the dolls fit in the dollhouses, the people fit in the cars, etc. Then pair two toys that don’t fit together -- For example, a large doll in a smaller plastic car. Say, What happens when I try to put this doll in the car? Talk with children about how things are built to size. Explain that the people who made the doll didn’t design, or make, the doll for that car. Talk with children about times they haven’t fit into something, such as a piece of clothing. Explain that many things are made to fit specific objects (for example, the doll crib in the classroom is made for dolls and not for human babies).
English Language Learners: If English Language Learners have trouble putting their ideas into words, let them pantomime; then you can explain what words to use.