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Explore Together (indoors): Build-a-House
Provide the different materials children have used while exploring buildings this week. Allow free exploration and have children use the materials to build a house.
Explore Together (indoors): Build a House for a Toy
Have children make houses for toys. Focus them on the size of the house so the toys fit inside.
Explore Together (indoors): Build a Representation
Have children build a representation of the building they saw.
Explore Together (indoors): Build a Tower
Have children build towers out of blocks. Have them draw a picture to record their tower.
Explore Together (indoors): Build with Different Materials
Challenge children to recreate their houses, bridges, and 3-D representations using different materials.
Explore Together (indoors): Building More Towers
Have children continue to explore using different materials to build towers.
Explore Together (indoors): Free Building
Have children continue building towers. Encourage them to explore using the materials in new ways.
Explore Together (indoors): Measuring to Build
Measure the length of the Block Center using a child’s length.
Explore Together (indoors): The Huff and Puff Test
Build straw, stick, and brick houses and try to blow them over. Encourage children to document their observations by drawing, writing, or dictating to you.
Explore Together (indoors): Using Building Materials
Allow children to freely explore the building materials. Invite them to make different structures they have learned about.
Explore Together (indoors): Walls and Roofs
Have children work in small groups to freely explore materials as they build different parts of a house.
Family Connection: Unit 6, Week 2, #2
Have children practice shaping the letter "T" with their family members.
Hardware Store
Set up a pretend hardware store with tools and building materials. Talk with children about what tools are needed to build certain things.
I’ll Huff and I’ll Puff!
Have children act out the story of The Three Little Pigs. Encourage them to act out the events in the order in which they happened.
Independent and Partner Reading, Unit 6, Week 1
Encourage children to select books that interest them and to look at the words and pictures on their own or with other children.
Independent and Partner Reading, Unit 6, Week 2
Ask children to select a version of The Three Little Pigs that interests them and to look at the words and pictures on their own or with other children.
Javelina Tale
Encourage children to make up a story about one of the pigs from The Three Little Javelinas. Ask them to draw the animal(s) and write or dictate the stories.
Learn About Letters Together: Cross Your Fingers
Challenge children to make the letter "X" with different parts of their bodies.
Learn About Letters Together: Guess My Word (/t/)
Create riddles with words that start with the /t/ sound and relate to the week’s theme (tool words, construction words).
Learn About Letters Together: Letters Make Words
Spread out word cards and magnetic letters. Have children work in pairs to match letters to a word card.