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Talk Together: Sink It!
Continue the conversation about floating and sinking. Discuss what will happen if they fill an empty container with pebbles or water.
Talk Together: Skin Colors
Have children choose a magazine picture and talk about different skin colors.
Talk Together: Sliding Experiences
Talk with children about their experiences going down slides and other inclined planes. Encourage them to talk about how they felt.
Talk Together: Sound and Music
Display the rubber band guitars and tubes from the Discovery Time activities during the week. Review with children what they observed during their explorations.
Talk Together: Sound Explorers
Revisit the book What Is a Scientist? By Barbara Lehn. Help children make connections between their explorations of sound and the skills described in the book.
Talk Together: Sound Scientists
Revisit the book What Is a Scientist? and have children compare their explorations to the descriptions in the book.
Talk Together: Sounds Around Us
Talk about the different sounds children hear inside and outside the room. Encourage children compare the sounds they hear.
Talk Together: Sounds We Hear
Ask children to think about sounds they heard on the way home or at home last night.
Talk Together: Space to Grow
Discuss how plants need a larger area to grow in as they get bigger.
Talk Together: Sprouting Seeds
Have children describe plants around his or her home. Then examine a plant from last week’s exploration that has sprouted.
Talk Together: Squirt and Pump
Introduce a pump and baster and demonstrate how to use them to move water.
Talk Together: Stand High, Crouch Low
Have children stand high or crouch low as the identify high and low pitch sounds.
Talk Together: Steep Stories
Talk with children about their experiences with varying the steepness of any ramps. Discuss how things move faster on steeper inclines.
Talk Together: Structures to Build
Take children outside to choose a structure they would like to build a representation of.
Talk Together: Talk About Explorations
Discuss new ways for children to build their obstacle courses based on their experiences and observations.
Talk Together: Talk About Sound
Introduce “loud” and “quiet” as children listen for sounds and discuss the source of each sound.
Talk Together: Talk About Sounds
Review sounds by playing back recordings of sounds children made while exploring.
Talk Together: Talk about Tracks
Discuss trackways. Show a picture of a real trackway and talk about how tracks help keep things, such as trains, on a straight path.
Talk Together: The Library
Introduce the library by encouraging children to share their experiences at the library.
Talk Together: “Three Little Mice”
Have children use their small motor skills as they recite a finger play about colors.