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Flowing Water
Encourage children to explore filling and pouring water into and out of containers.
Everyday Objects Are Fun Toys
Plan and build with boxes, tubes, containers, and other everyday objects together to help children develop language, art, math, and engineering skills.
Use Your Hands
Play hand and finger games with babies during regular routines to help them strengthen small motor muscle and learn to use their hands.
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.
Letter Sort
Help children sort letters with straight lines and letters with curved lines.
Loud, Medium, Quiet Sounds
Have children continue exploring making sounds with their shakers. Have children make loud, medium, and quiet sounds and have them explain how they made those sounds.
Talk Together: Plants and Roots
Continue to discuss plants, including trees and roots.
Water Tools
Leave the water table set up with the water tools throughout the week so children can continue their explorations with the tools.
Recite Together: “Big and Small”
Recite the poem and have children act out the motions.
Wet and Dry Clothes
Children wash doll clothes—some hang wet clothes on the clothesline and others place their doll clothes in plastic bags. Revisit the cloths to see which cloths are still wet and which ones are dry.
Different Material—Different Drying Time
Children choose items of different materials and determine which absorbs more water and which dries faster.
Small Group: Plant Leaves
Have children observe and compare the leaves of their bean, grass, and onion bulb plants.
Explore Together (outdoors): More Soil Exploration
Have children work in groups as they continue to explore outdoor plants and soil.
Small Group: One, Few, Many
Have children describe some fruits and vegetables and make a chart showing which ones have one, few, or many seeds.
Explore Together (indoors): Pitch and Volume
Review various sounds with children. Have them listen to, identify, and sort pictures of sounds.
Letter Sort (“Ii”)
Use the Letter Sort Routine to help children recognize the uppercase and lowercase letter “Ii.”
Talk Together: Making Obstacles
Discuss the weight and texture of different materials. Help children think about how they might use them in their obstacle course explorations.
Small Group: Tools for Building
Discuss tools for building. Have children use tools to make a key holder for a family member.
Explore Together (indoors): Free Building
Have children continue building towers. Encourage them to explore using the materials in new ways.
Read Together: Alphabet Under Construction #1
Comment on the different tools used to construct the letters of the alphabet in the story.