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Talk Together: Building to Size and Purpose
Have children share a structure they built. Discuss their buildings’ different sizes and purposes.
Talk Together: Building Trackways
Talk with children about their experiences building ramps and trackways and rolling a ball so it travels the entire distance of the track.
Talk Together: Changing Our Voices
Discuss how everyone's voice has a different sound. Have children record their names and listen to the voice differences.
Talk Together: Color Detective (green)
Introduce the color green and have children find green objects around the room.
Talk Together: Color Words
Discuss shades of yellow and words used to name shades of yellow.
Talk Together: Dams
Talk about dams and what happens when they put things in water to block its flow.
Talk Together: Different Materials
Review the materials the three pigs used to build their house. Discuss that materials people use to build things depend on where they live in the world.
Talk Together: Down the Ramp
Introduce the concept of inclined planes by constructing a ramp. Have children predict how objects will move down the ramp.
Talk Together: Drip Drop
Gather children around the faucet and have them describe how the drops form as water drips from the faucet.
Talk Together: Even Steeper
Review with children what happens when they increase the steepness of a ramp. Guide the discussion with photographs or videos taken during the week.
Talk Together: Favorite Colors
Have children choose and describe a favorite color and graph them on a chart.
Talk Together: Feeling the Music
Talk about how different music can make you feel happy, sad, or even silly. Play a piece of music and ask children how they feel.
Talk Together: Flowers, Stems, and Roots
Talk about plant parts and how each part helps the plant grow.
Talk Together: Flowing Downhill
Remind children of their ramp explorations. Have children predict what will happen when they pour water down a ramp.
Talk Together: Garden Soil
Discuss how vegetables have been picked from the soil of the garden or farm that they were grown in.
Talk Together: Get the Soil Ready
Review how worms help gardens. Create a tunnel and have children “worm” their way through the tunnel.
Talk Together: High and Low
Recite a poem to demonstrate and talk about the concepts of volume and pitch. Facilitate a discussion on sounds with high and low pitches.
Talk Together: House Shapes
Identify the two-dimensional shapes found in parts of a house (roof, walls, etc.). Revisit the book Building a House.
Talk Together: How Does It Feel?
Have children take turns feeling a variety of textures of different materials and compare the textures.
Talk Together: I Can Do It!
Review the story The Little Engine That Could. Have children share a time they were afraid to go down an inclined plane.