Learning Goals
STEM
Children will:
- Observe and describe plants in their natural habitat
- Observe and describe cultivated plants
- Understand that plants in soil have some parts below ground and some above
- Observe that plants grow in different places and in different types of soil
- Understand that plants get their needs met from the environment (their habitat)
- Begin to understand that plants can depend on animals (such as earthworms) to grow
- Identify earthworms as tiny animals that live in the soil, underground
- Recognize that living things have needs
- Measure, record, and display plant growth on graphs
- Predict and compare and record changes in plants
- Do simple experiments, record, and share ideas
ELA
Children will:
- Recognize, match, and form uppercase and lowercase “Ww” (Alphabet Awareness)
- Identify the letter (“Ww”) in context of a word (worm) (Alphabet Awareness)
- Recognize and produce beginning sounds in words (/w/) (Phonological Awareness)
- Repeat and generate alliterative sentences (Phonological Awareness)
- Build understanding through text-to-self and text-to-text connections (Comprehension)
- Interpret illustrations from a story (Comprehension)
- Make and confirm predictions about a story (Comprehension)
- Engage in active viewing and listening (Listening and Speaking)
- 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 planting including soil, environment, leaves, plant, root, and stem (Vocabulary)
SOCIAL EMOTIONAL
Children will:
- Work cooperatively in a small group or with a partner
- Begin to show self confidence in their abilities as they share ideas
- Begin to initiate, organize, and participate in independent activities
- Understand and respect group roles, rules, and expectations
- Begin to understand the importance of helping others