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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.
Learn About Letters Together: Letter (“Ss”) Skip
Make multiple “S” letters on the floor or playground with tape or chalk. Have children skip around each letter “S.”
Learn About Letters Together: Letter Walk “Oo”
Have children walk along a letter “Oo”, and make the “Oo” shape with their fingers and mouth as they walk.
Learn About Letters Together: Letter Walk (“Ww”)
Have children walk along a large uppercase “W” on the floor.
Learn About Letters Together: Shape and Decorate Letter (“Aa”)
Have children trace an uppercase “A” and decorate the page. Then have them march along a large “A” on the floor.
Learn About Letters Together: Tiptoe on “T”
Have children tiptoe along a large uppercase “T” on the floor.
Plant Collage
Have children create collages using drawing materials and plant objects they collected from outside.
Play Together: Huff and Puff Tag
Play this game of tag and have “the wolf” chase after the little pigs. The game ends when all the little pigs have been tagged.
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.
Sing Together: “Here We Go Round the Alphabet”
Write the uppercase alphabet letters on the ground in a circle going clockwise. Sing the song and have children walk around the circle.
Tell Stories
Engage babies with stories during your daily routines. Use interesting words and longer sentences as you create your stories.
Traveling Seeds
Have children explore how seeds travel by covering a sheet of paper with paint and glue and blowing the dandelion seeds onto their papers to see how seeds travel and spread out.