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A Windy Day
Go outside on a windy day. Help children become aware of things being moved around by the wind.
Act Out a Ramp Story
Read a book about ramps and help your child make connections to ramps found in your neighborhood.
Animal Colors
Have children sort pictures of animals by their colors and talk about how some animals blend into their environment.
Animal Homes
Explore the different types of homes animals live in. Then help your child plan and build a house for a favorite animal.
Animal Tools: "Chirp Builds a Nest" #3 (PEEP show)
Have children watch the video PEEP and the Big Wide World “Chirp Builds a Nest.” Encourage children to browse through books from the Library Center to find out more about how animals build their homes.
Bathtub Science
Have your child explore water at bath time with plastic containers of different shapes and sizes.
Blueprints
Show the blueprint in Building a House by Byron Barton. Have children draw a blueprint for a building they would like to build.
Building from Blueprints
Use blueprints to build the structure out of blocks. Encourage children to discuss how to make the parts of the house strong.
Building Site
Visit a construction site and talk with your child about the tools and machines used by construction workers.
Changing Textures
Explore how the texture and consistency of foods can change as you make a snack with children. Expand the exploration to include dry/wet sand or mud.
Color Art
Have children make a collage of colored transparent materials and observe how light shines through the colors.
Color Break-Up
Help children break up colors using a simple form of chromatography to show what colors were combined to make another color.
Connecting Cube Train Races
Have children build connecting-cube trains to send down ramps, and use nonstandard measuring tools to mark how far the trains travel.
Different Material—Different Drying Time
Children choose items of different materials and determine which absorbs more water and which dries faster.
Divvy Up!
Show children how to divvy up or divide food as a character in their read-aloud.
Does It Float?
Have children test objects to see if they will float or sink. Instruct children to place the objects in the “sink” or “float” half of a poster board based on what happened.
Down the Slide
Test how different materials can make your child move down a slide faster, slower, or not at all.
Draw and Write Together: “Our Bean Seeds” Chart
Have children dictate or write to record observations as children’s plants grow.
Draw and Write Together: What Did We See?
Have children draw to record an observation they made outside.
Explore Together (indoors): Balls: Float or Sink?
Test children’s predictions and have them record which balls float and which ones sink.