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Small Group: Color Categories
Have children sort and group shades of color.
Small Group: Create an Underground Environment
Discuss how worms help plants meet their needs. Then set up a worm habitat with children.
Small Group: Different Materials
Encourage children to explore a variety of building materials. Have them record their observations and ideas in their “Building Materials” journals.
Small Group: Drops on a Penny
Have children continue to explore how water drops stick together, and how water drops behave on different surfaces.
Small Group: Enough Room?
Have children explore the idea of fitting objects in a limited space.
Small Group: Estimate Watermelon Seeds
Have children estimate how many seeds are in a slice of watermelon.
Small Group: Explore Trees
Discuss parts of a tree. Go outside and have children compare and explore trees.
Small Group: Find the Sound
Play a listening game with children to have them practice using their sense of hearing to find the source of sounds.
Small Group: Foam Ball Houses
Explore making walls and roofs with foam craft balls and toothpicks.
Small Group: Growing Sprouts #1
Prepare sprout seeds for planting with children.
Small Group: Growing Sprouts #2
Have children rinse the sprout seeds and record any changes they observe in the plant.
Small Group: High and Low Material Sounds
Have children use various materials instead of their voices to continue exploring high and low sounds. Encourage children to work in pairs and to take turns.
Small Group: High or Low?
Play recordings of high and low sounds. Ask children to identify the sounds by pitch.
Small Group: “Kid Rulers”
Have children work in pairs to make “kid rulers.” Have them use their tools to measure big things.
Small Group: Making Group Music
In preparation for Music Day, have children listen to music and perform it in a group. Encourage small groups to try different volumes, pitches, and instruments.
Small Group: Making Music
Continue sharing and exploring making music in small groups. Invite the class as a group to give a concert of the sounds they made.
Small Group: Measure the Flow
Have children measure how far the water flowed with nonstandard measuring tools.
Small Group: More Shake and Listen Indoors
Have children continue to explore making sounds with the shakers and use concept vocabulary to describe the sounds.
Small Group: More Tap and Scrape
Have children continue to explore sounds with the tap and scrape materials.
Small Group: More Tube Talk
Join small groups of children as they continue to explore listening and talking with tubes at the Math and Science Center. Help them explore vibrations as well.