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“Making Things Float and Sink” #2 (PEEP live-action clip)
Play the PEEP and the Big Wide World video “Making Things Float and Sink.” Have each child draw a picture about the discoveries the children in the video made.
Marble Painting
Have children roll marbles that are covered in paint inside a covered box to create a painting and observe how colors mix.
Matching Game
Have children match pictures of baby animals to the animals’ mothers.
Materials Sort
Have children place objects in the correct category: materials that are good for building a house and materials that are not good for building a house.
Math Chefs
Have children measure and cut specified numbers of clay fruit pieces to make a clay fruit salad.
Measure Up
Have children choose a number block card and then measure that many blocks with string so that they can make inclines just the size that they want them.
Measuring Plants
Have children continue to measure their plants. Provide various nonstandard measurement tools.
Measuring Tools
Introduce math tools to toddlers and let them explore measuring, pouring, filling, and emptying one material into another.
More . . . More . . . Too Many
Hand a baby more objects than she can hold to help a baby develop a strong sense of numbers. Play the game as you use lots of math vocabulary—here’s one toy, here’s one more, let’s count how many, and so on.
“Mouse Paint” Puppets
Have children create mouse puppets and other props from the story Mouse Paint.
Moving Watercolors Painting
Have children make watercolor paintings and blow on the picture with a straw to see the paint move.
Mrs. McNosh Role Play
Invite children to act out the story Mrs. McNosh Hangs Up Her Wash with silly items children can pretend to wash and hang up to dry.
Music Patterns
Play a musical pattern on toy instruments and have children say the pattern aloud with you as well as on their own.
Musical Murals
Play different types of music and have children paint to the music. Display the paintings and the names of the artists.
My Family Book
Create a book of favorite people for each baby. Use photos of their families and friends. “Read” the book together by talking about the pictures.
My Favorite Sound
Have children draw a picture that features their favorite sound and then dictate or write a description.
My Favorite Veggies
Have children draw, dictate, or write their own books about their favorite vegetables.
My Garden
Children act out planting and tending a garden. Encourage them to use props as they plant and care for their garden.
My Home
Have children draw pictures of the inside or outside of their homes. Let children draw, write, or dictate a caption to put under their drawings.
My Kind of House
Invite children to draw the house they would like to build. Have them dictate or write labels or captions.