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One-on-One Reading: Toy Boat

Read aloud Toy Boat to individuals or small groups. Have children close their eyes and visualize what is happening in the story.

One-on-One Reading: Who Sank the Boat?

Read aloud Who Sank the Boat? to individuals or small groups. Review how the added weight of the mouse made the boat sink.

Play Together: Laundry Hat Toss

Have children find hats that go in the laundry and absorb water. Allow them to toss the hats into a laundry basket.

Read Together: A Cool Drink of Water #1

Review how all living things need water and then read the book with children.

Read Together: A Cool Drink of Water #2

Reread the book and have children look for the different objects people use to make water move.

Read Together: Educator’s Choice, Unit 9, Week 1

Choose a book about water to read to children. Ask them to identify how water moves and changes direction in the story.

Read Together: Educator’s Choice, Unit 9, Week 2

Read a story or concept book about water. Make connections between the book and children’s own explorations with water.

Read Together: Educator’s Choice, Unit 9, Week 3

Read aloud a nonfiction or fiction book about floating and sinking.

Read Together: Educator’s Choice, Unit 9, Week 4

Read a favorite story or concept book about water. Make connections to children’s explorations with water.

Read Together: I Get Wet #1

Read about experiments with water. Focus children on the different shapes water takes in the book.

Read Together: I Get Wet #2

Gather children around a faucet and follow the water activity as the text describes.

Read Together: Mrs. McNosh Hangs Up Her Wash #1

Read the story and have children listen to all the silly things Mrs. McNosh washes and hangs up to dry.

Read Together: Mrs. McNosh Hangs Up Her Wash #2

Reread the story. Ask children to recall events and tell what the main idea of the story is.

Read Together: Row, Row, Row Your Boat #1

Read the story, focusing on words children might use in their explorations during the week.

Read Together: Row, Row, Row Your Boat #2

Reread the book. Point out the beavers building a dam.

Read Together: Ten Dirty Pigs/Ten Clean Pigs

Read the story and have children look for all the different ways water moves in the story.

Read Together: Toy Boat #1

Read Toy Boat by Randall de Seve. Help children track the movements of the boat as it floats in the water.

Read Together: Toy Boat #2

Reread Toy Boat by Randal de Seve. Help children visualize the action of the story

Read Together: Toy Boat #3

Reread the story. Focus children on all the things that might make the toy boat sink.

Read Together: Who Sank the Boat? #1

Read the story and have children think about why the boat sinks further into the water each time an animal gets in.

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