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One-on-One Reading: A Cool Drink of Water
Read aloud A Cool Drink of Water to individuals or small groups. Have children point out how people are using water.
One-on-One Reading: Ten Dirty Pigs/Ten Clean Pigs
Read aloud Ten Dirty Pigs/Ten Clean Pigs to individuals or small groups. Count the pigs on each page with children.
One-on-One Reading: Toy Boat
Read aloud Toy Boat to individuals or small groups. Have children close their eyes and visualize what is happening in the story.
One-on-One Reading: Who Sank the Boat?
Read aloud Who Sank the Boat? to individuals or small groups. Review how the added weight of the mouse made the boat sink.
Play Together: Bear, Bear, Fish!
Play a game of Duck, Duck Goose, but change the words to Bear, Bear, Fish.
Play Together: “Fish Swish” #1 (PEEP game)
Children play the Peep and the Big Wide World interactive game “Fish Swish” and count how many balloons Quack needs for his friends.
Play Together: Laundry Hat Toss
Have children find hats that go in the laundry and absorb water. Allow them to toss the hats into a laundry basket.
Play Together: Over, Under, Around, and Through
Play the game to build children’s vocabulary to discuss moving water.
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.
Puppet Talk
Help children make puppets of the characters from Who Sank the Boat
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.
Read Together: Educator’s Choice, Unit 9, Week 1
Choose a book about water to read to children. Ask them to identify how water moves and changes direction in the story.
Read Together: Educator’s Choice, Unit 9, Week 2
Read a story or concept book about water. Make connections between the book and children’s own explorations with water.
Read Together: Educator’s Choice, Unit 9, Week 3
Read aloud a nonfiction or fiction book about floating and sinking.
Read Together: Educator’s Choice, Unit 9, Week 4
Read a favorite story or concept book about water. Make connections to children’s explorations with water.
Read Together: I Get Wet #1
Read about experiments with water. Focus children on the different shapes water takes in the book.
Read Together: I Get Wet #2
Gather children around a faucet and follow the water activity as the text describes.
Read Together: Mrs. McNosh Hangs Up Her Wash #1
Read the story and have children listen to all the silly things Mrs. McNosh washes and hangs up to dry.
Read Together: Mrs. McNosh Hangs Up Her Wash #2
Reread the story. Ask children to recall events and tell what the main idea of the story is.