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Learn About Letters Together: Target Letter (“Zz”) and Word (zoom)
Use the Target Letter and Word Routine to introduce children to the letter “Zz” and the word zoom.
Learn About Letters Together: Target Letters (“Dd,” “Ee”) and Words (down, engine)
Reinforce recognition of the letters “Dd” and “Ee” and the words down and engine by having children hunt for them in the room.
Learn About Sounds Together: Letter Sound (/e/)
Have children listen for words that begin with the letter sound /e/. Encourage children to generate words.
Letter Shape (“Uu”)
Shape pipe cleaners or roll “snakes” from strips of clay to form the letter “Uu.” Have children use the materials to form the letter “Uu.”
Letter Shaping (“Dd” and “Ee”)
Trace over both the lowercase and uppercase “Dd” and “Ee” to show children how to form the letters. Then have children form their own letters.
Letter Shaping (“Hh”)
Shape pipe cleaners or roll “snakes” from strips of clay to form the letter “Hh.” Have children use the materials to form the letter “Hh.”
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.
My Own Ramp
Have children create a portable and decorative ramp out of various materials. Discuss the explorations children have done with ramps.
One-on-One Reading: Mama Zooms #3
Read aloud Mama Zooms to individuals or small groups. Name some of the actions in the story and have children repeat and pantomime the actions.
One-on-One Reading: Roller Coaster #3
Read aloud Roller Coaster to individuals or small groups. Ask children to point out things in the illustrations that are important in the story (characters, setting, etc.).
One-on-One Reading: The Little Engine That Could #3
Read aloud to individuals or small groups and encourage active listening by allowing children to share things they see in the illustrations.
Our Ramp Stories
Have children dictate or write a ramp story about an observation they made while exploring ramps. Children illustrate their stories with magazine pictures.
Our Rolling and Sliding
Invite children to watch videos of themselves rolling and sliding objects down ramps with different surfaces.
Pass Through the Obstacles
Have children set up an obstacle course and construct a game in which players need to find a way to pass the obstacles to get through the course.
Pasta-Wheel Pictures
Invite children to draw something that has wheels and have them use wheel-shaped pasta to represent the wheels.
Play Together: “Quack’s Apples” #1 (PEEP game)
Join small groups of children at the Technology Center to have them take turns in helping Quack roll apples down the hill and into the pond.
Play Together: Roll, Roll, Slide!
Have children follow directions as they play the game “Roll, Roll, Slide!” using a block and a ramp.
Play Together: Samantha Says (“Hh”)
Play “Simon Says.” as children repeat an action only when they hear a word beginning with the letter /h/ sound.
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.
“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.