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Small Group: Estimate Watermelon Seeds

Have children estimate how many seeds are in a slice of watermelon.

Sort Loud, Medium, and Quiet

Place pictures on a table. Have children sort the sounds the things in the pictures make into loud, medium, and quiet sounds.

Sort Loud and Quiet Animal Sounds

Have children work together to sort toy animals or pictures of animals into those that make loud sounds and those that make soft sounds.

Heavy and Light

Set up two boxes: one labeled “Heavy” and one labeled “Light.” Have children sort various objects by weight. 

Talk Together: Building to Size and Purpose

Have children share a structure they built. Discuss their buildings’ different sizes and purposes.

Review the Week Together: Unit 6, Week 3

Revisit the charts, objects, and pictures from the week.  Review measuring tools, size, and bridges, “Xx,” /x/, /ks/, and x-ray.

Adding Houses

Measure the lengths of objects by counting the number of blocks along the objects.

Review the Week Together: Unit 7, Week 4

Revisit the charts, objects, and pictures from the week.  Review plant needs, underground environments, and gardening, “Ww,” /w/, and worms.

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.

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.

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