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Explore Together (indoors): Shake and Listen
Have children choose materials and containers to explore making sounds. Challenge children to make loud and soft sounds with the shakers.
Explore Together (indoors): Steeper and Steeper
Have children explore how the steepness of a ramp will affect how far a ball travels. Use two ramps with one being steeper than the other.
Explore Together (indoors): Tap and Scrape Sounds
Invite children to select from a set of materials to make and describe tap and scrape sounds.
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): Vary the Obstacles
Children continue to explore ramps and objects that can be obstacles. Have children experiment with using different objects to use as obstacles.
Explore Together (indoors): Vary the Steepness
Have children figure out what they need to do to the steepness of a ramp to make a ball knock over an obstacle.
Explore Together (indoors): Voice Pitch
Children explore the concept of pitch using their voices. Have them say and listen to high and low sounds, and record them on a chart.
Explore Together (indoors): Water Tools: Introduce Tubing
Have children continue to explore moving water. Add plastic tubing to the set of materials that children can use to move water.
Read Together: Oscar and the Bat: A Book About Sound #2
Read aloud Oscar and the Bat: A Book About Sound by Geoff Waring. Focus on why animals and people make sounds to communicate.
Small Group: Build a Shape House
Have children glue shapes on paper to build shape houses.
Watch Together: “Cat Categories” (PEEP live-action clip)
Watch a video about cats and learn about categorizing.
Watch Together: "Mixing Paint" (PEEP live-action)
Watch a live-action Peep and Big Wide World video about children mixing paints for landmarks on a map.