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Moving Watercolors Painting
Have children make watercolor paintings and blow on the picture with a straw to see the paint move.
Mrs. McNosh Role Play
Invite children to act out the story Mrs. McNosh Hangs Up Her Wash with silly items children can pretend to wash and hang up to dry.
My River Story
Help children draw, dictate, or write their own books about a river.
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.