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Review the Week Together: Unit 9, Week 2
Revisit the charts, objects, and pictures from the week. Review pools, waterways, and dams, “Dd,” “Rr,” /d/, /r/, dam, and river.
Review the Week Together: Unit 9, Week 3
Revisit the charts, objects, and pictures from the week. Review floating, sinking, balance, and boats, “Bb,” /b/, and boat.
Review the Week Together: Unit 9, Week 4
Revisit the charts, objects, and pictures from the week. Review absorb, evaporation, water drops and drips, “Uu,” /u/, and up.
River Dance
Invite children to imagine they are the water in a river. Have children dance to the music, using scarves or paper ribbons to represent flowing water.
River Mural
Have children make a group mural with a variety of art media about the bears’ ride on the river.
Role Play “Row, Row, Row Your Boat”
Provide props for children to recreate scenes from the book Row, Row, Row Your Boat.
Sing Together: “Down by the Bay”
Sing the song and invite children to suggest other silly verses with rhyming words.
Sing Together: “Fish Is Waiting”
Sing the song, naming objects and asking children to predict whether it will float or sink.
Sing Together: “Opposite Song”
Discuss opposites and sing the song. Prompt children to provide the opposite words in the song.
Sing Together: “Row, Row, Row Your Boat”
Divide children into two groups and sing the song as a round.
Sing Together: “This Is the Way We Wash Our Faces”
Sing the song and act out the motions with children. Then invite them to add additional verses.
Small Group: Bag of Objects
Give each child an object to describe and predict if it will float or sink. Test the items and place them in bins labeled “Float” or “Sink.”
Small Group: Change the Flow
Collect materials outside with children to experiment how to change the direction of water flow.
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: Measure the Flow
Have children measure how far the water flowed with nonstandard measuring tools.
Small Group: No Shape of Its Own
Explore the idea that liquids do not have their own shape, but take on the shape of their containers.
Small Group: Sink the Boat
Have children place pennies on their boats and count how many pennies are on the boats before they sink.
Small Group: Water Drop Races
Have children use eyedroppers to squirt and drip water drops on a smooth, vertical surface and compare how the drops flow.
String Pictures
Have children make string paintings that show the movement of water.
Talk Together: Dams
Talk about dams and what happens when they put things in water to block its flow.