- pool
- puddle
- stream
- water
MA Standards:
Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.1: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners during daily routines and play.
Language/L.PK.MA.6: Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, listening to books read aloud, activities, and play.
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.
Logic and Reasoning/Reasoning and Problem Solving: Classifies, compares, and contrasts objects, events, and experiences.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Language 2: Participate actively in discussions, listen to the ideas of others, and ask and answer relevant questions.
Talk Together: Pools of Water
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STEM Key Concepts: Water flows downhill; Water can flow quickly or slowly
ELA Focus Skills: Listening and Speaking, Vocabulary
Tell children that today they are going outdoors to make streams and puddles. Introduce the activity by asking children, Who has seen a puddle outside before? What is it like? Talk with children about what happens when it rains and water collects in a puddle, or pool. Say, The word pool can mean a swimming pool or a puddle, or it can describe what happens when water collects into a puddle. Talk about all of the various instances of pools and pooling children have seen, and ask them to describe what happens to the water. Does it keep moving? What does it look like? Help children think about and describe how the water moves.