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Draw and Write Together: Wheel Web

Make a chart of things that move on wheels. Encourage children to draw pictures or cut out photos of one of the items.    

Explore Together (indoors): Indoor Ramp Rolling

Allow children to freely explore ramps materials and building ramps. Encourage them to record their observations.

Explore Together (indoors): Move Along

Discuss how things with and without wheels move down ramps. Have children work in groups to construct ramps.

Explore Together (outdoors): Free Ramp Exploration

Have children continue to explore ramps and how objects move down a ramp. Encourage children predict how an object will behave on a ramp.

Explore Together (outdoors): Steeper and Steeper Outside

Have children continue to observe rolling objects down ramps as they adjust the steepness of the incline.

Read Together: Mama Zooms #1

Read the book Mama Zooms. Discuss with children how some people cannot walk and that a wheelchair helps them move around and go places.

Read Together: Mama Zooms #2

Reread Mama Zooms with lots of expression and have children act out the motions in the book. 

Read Together: Roll, Slope, Slide: A Book About Ramps #2

Read Roll, Slope, Slide: A Book About Ramps and have children point out how ramps make some things easier to do.

Read Together: Samantha on a Roll #1

Read slowly and with expressions so children can enjoy the rhythm of the words as Samantha rolls in and out of different situations.

Read Together: Samantha on a Roll #2

Have children focus on the obstacles Samantha hits as she rolls down Hawthorn Hill.

Read Together: The Little Engine That Could #1

Read about a little engine that pulled toys over a large mountain. Discuss how the different trains moved up and down the mountain.

Read Together: The Little Engine That Could #2

Reread The Little Engine That Could. Discuss how some of the cars have wheels but cannot move on their own. Act out pushing and pulling.

Review the Week Together: Unit 5, Week 4

Review ramps, trackways, and obstacles explrations and the letter “Hh,” letter sound /h/, and the word hill

Watch Together: “The Whatchamacallit” #1 (PEEP show)

Play a Peep and the Big Wide World video about ramps and model active viewing as you discuss the ramp and how things move down it.

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