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Read Together: Educator’s Choice, Unit 5, Week 3
Read aloud a favorite book about ramps or wheels.
Read Together: Educator’s Choice, Unit 5, Week 4
Read aloud Samantha on a Roll, Ten on the Sled, or another book about rolling or sliding.
Read Together: Roll, Slope, Slide: A Book About Ramps #1
Read the book and have children listen actively as they use hand and body motions to act out action words and phrases.
Read Together: Roller Coaster #1
Read a story about a girl who goes on her first roller coaster ride. Have children notice what happens when the roller coaster goes up and down the hills.
Read Together: Roller Coaster #2
Read the book Roller Coaster and encourage children to act out all the motion words.
Read Together: Ten on the Sled #1
Read Ten on the Sled by Kim Norman. Discuss the animals on the sled and predict what will happen as they go down the hill.
Read Together: Ten on the Sled, #2
Make connections to ramps, steepness, and how different move slide down hills as you read Ten on the Sled. Talk about the “main idea” of a story.
Read Together: What Do Wheels Do all Day?
Read aloud What Do Wheels Do All Day? Discuss how each character uses wheels to move around and do different things.
Recite Together: “Feelings”
Recite the rhyme “Feelings” with children and ask them to act out the feeling words as you read them the rhyme.
Recite Together: “Over, Under, Around, and Through”
Have work with a buddy to go over, under, around, and through a hoop as you recite “Over, Under, Around, and Through.”
Recite Together: “The Grand Old Duke of York”
Discuss opposite words up and down as you recite “The Grand Old Duke of York” with children.
Recite Together: “The Slide”
Use the rhyme, “The Slide” to reinforce the concept of moving down a slide. Have children act out the motions.
Review the Week Together: Unit 5, Week 1
Display the read-aloud books, children’s artwork, writing, and charts. Talk about what children learned this week, including their work in the Centers.
Review the Week Together: Unit 5, Week 2
Revisit the charts, objects, and pictures from the week as you review ramps, slides, and trackways, “Uu,” /u/, and up.
Sing Together: “The Wheels on the Bus” #3
Discuss how a bus moves from place to place on wheels and then sing a song about a bus and act out the motions.
Talk Together: Building Ramps
Review with children their experiences building ramps and rolling and sliding objects down the ramps.
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: 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: 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: How Does It Feel?
Have children take turns feeling a variety of textures of different materials and compare the textures.