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Explore Together (indoors): Mystery Shakers

Have children make shakers with different materials. Then have them listening to the shaker sounds and guess what object is inside making the sound.

Explore Together (indoors): Our Growing Seeds and Bulbs

Have children observe their growing plants. Instruct them to use their science notebooks to draw their plants.

Explore Together (indoors): Pitch and Volume

Review various sounds with children. Have them listen to, identify, and sort pictures of sounds.

Explore Together (indoors): Plant and Soil Changes

Determine two groups to have children explore the worm habitat or their plants with magnifying lenses.

Explore Together (indoors): Pour & Squirt

Set up three stations at the water table to allow groups to explore different ways of moving water.

Explore Together (indoors): Pour, Squirt, & Pump

Divide children into four groups to explore moving water with their hands, plastic cups, funnels, basters, and water pumps.

Explore Together (indoors): Ramp Obstacles

Have children place obstacles in the pathway of rolling objects and explore what happens when the objects hit the obstacles as they are moving down a ramp.

Explore Together (indoors): Record Plant Changes

Explore the seeds and bulbs children planted last week. Have them record changes they see in the growing plants.

Explore Together (indoors): Responding to Sound

Invite children to create their own music by responding to the sounds they hear indoors. Provide various materials and help children identify and imitate sounds.

Explore Together (indoors): Revisit Our Bean Plants

Have children return to their bean plants to explore and record changes in the plants.

Explore Together (indoors): Rolling Around

Challenge children to build a tube trackway and send a marble down the entire length of the trackway. Encourage children to draw or write to record their observations.

Explore Together (indoors): Rolling on Different Surfaces

Explore how different floor surfaces affect how far a ball travels after leaving a ramp. Divide the group onto different surfaces to see on which the ball will go farthest.

Explore Together (indoors): Rubber Band Guitars

Help children place a rubber band around boxes, bread pans, etc. to make “rubber band guitars.” Have them explore making sounds with rubber bands.

Explore Together (indoors): Rubber Band Music

Encourage children to continue their exploration of sound by plucking on rubber bands and changing the pitch by stretching the rubber band.

Explore Together (indoors): Rubber Band Sounds

Have children continue exploring making sounds with rubber bands. Ask children to describe what they see when they pluck the rubber band. Introduce the word vibrate.