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Play Together: “Show Us What Your Instrument Can Do”
Gather children with their rubber-band instruments. Sing the song, “Show Us What Your Instrument Can Do” and have children demonstrate making sounds.
Play Together: Sink or Float Musical Chairs
Stop the music and have children sit on a chair. Have them grab a ball from under their chair and test whether it will sink or float.
Play Together: Sound Detectives
Give children the opportunity to become “sound detectives” by having guess what object makes a sound they hear.
Play Together: “The Cook in the Kitchen”
Sing the song “The Cook in the Kitchen” as children play the game and become ingredients in the bee-bim bop.
Play Together: Train Time
Have groups act out different characters (trains) from The Little Engine That Could. Find a hill or a low ramp to use as the mountain.
Play Together: Volume Control
Play a game with children where they raise and lower the volume of their voices. Use cardboard remote controls to adjust others’ volumes.
Play Together: Who Took the Potato?
Play this adaptation of “Doggie, Doggie, Your Bone is Gone” to help children build listening skills.
Play Together: “X” Marks the Spot
Have children play the letter card game to get to the “X” spot.
Pop-Up Plants
Invite children to make a pop-up flower. Encourage children to tell a story about their plant as it “grows.”
Preparing Dinner
Invite children to make their own version of bee-bim-bop to serve for dinner. Instruct them on how to set a table to serve the meal.
Puppet Play, Unit 2, Week 3
Have children act out the story of Mouse Paint as you introduce concepts such as character and dialogue.
Puppet Talk
Help children make puppets of the characters from Who Sank the Boat
“Quack’s Apples” #2 (PEEP game)
For this game, guide children in helping Quack slant the sticks so apples roll down the hill and into the pond.
“Quack’s Apples” #3 (PEEP game)
Help children slant the sticks with Quack so that the apples roll down the hill and into the pond.
Ramp Drawings
Have children draw a picture of a slide or ramp that they have seen. Then have them identify and include pictures of objects they would like to move down ramps.
Ramp Paintings
Children dip marbles in paint and roll them down ramps to make ramp paintings. Use vocabulary such as roll, slant, and slide to discuss ramps.
Ramp Races!
Have children work with partners to build a ramp, and then “race” objects down it. Encourage cooperation to develop children’s social skills.
Ramps at Home
Build ramps out of everyday objects with your child. Then together explore objects that roll or slide.
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.