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A Windy Day
Go outside on a windy day. Help children become aware of things being moved around by the wind.
Changing Textures
Explore how the texture and consistency of foods can change as you make a snack with children. Expand the exploration to include dry/wet sand or mud.
Different Ways to Play
Help children master new skills, remember new ideas, and investigate the world. Find opportunities to include new concepts, ideas, and words in their play in different ways.
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): Voice Volume
Have children focus on exploring volume and timbre with their voices, and then create patterns of sounds for others to repeat.
Explore Together (outdoors): Measuring Up
Have children check and measure their sprouts. Then observe and measure the plants they repotted outside.
Explore Together (outdoors): Sort the Travelers
Have children sort seeds by how they travel.
How Does It Feel?
Introduce babies to new and different textures as you explore natural and man-made materials and objects together.
Plant Collage
Have children create collages using drawing materials and plant objects they collected from outside.
Play Together: Pig, Pig, Wolf!
Play the game “Duck, Duck, Goose” using words pig and wolf.
Play Together: Volume Control
Play a game with children where they raise and lower the volume of their voices. Use cardboard remote controls to adjust others’ volumes.
Tell Stories
Engage babies with stories during your daily routines. Use interesting words and longer sentences as you create your stories.
Water, Water, Everywhere
Let babies explore water. Join in as they explore and help them build their science vocabulary by giving them words to describe their actions.