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Recite Together: “Feelings”
Recite the rhyme “Feelings” with children and ask them to act out the feeling words as you read them the rhyme.
Recite Together: “Over, Under, Around, and Through”
Have work with a buddy to go over, under, around, and through a hoop as you recite “Over, Under, Around, and Through.”
Recite Together: “The Grand Old Duke of York”
Discuss opposite words up and down as you recite “The Grand Old Duke of York” with children.
Recite Together: “The Slide”
Use the rhyme, “The Slide” to reinforce the concept of moving down a slide. Have children act out the motions.
Review the Week Together: Unit 5, Week 1
Display the read-aloud books, children’s artwork, writing, and charts. Talk about what children learned this week, including their work in the Centers.
Review the Week Together: Unit 5, Week 2
Revisit the charts, objects, and pictures from the week as you review ramps, slides, and trackways, “Uu,” /u/, and up.
Sing Together: “The Wheels on the Bus” #3
Discuss how a bus moves from place to place on wheels and then sing a song about a bus and act out the motions.
Small Group: Body Ramps
Have children make body ramps with their legs, arms, and different body parts. Then have them objects down their ramps.
Small Group: Ramp Drawings
Have children illustrate the ramp constructions they built. Encourage them to represent the movement of the objects on the ramps in their drawings.
Small Group: Ramp Races
Have children work with partners to build a ramp and “race” objects down the ramp and describe how the objects move differently down the ramp.
Small Group: Ramp Track Paintings
Have children create ramp paintings using balls dipped in paint and ramps.
Small Group: Sort Roll, Slide, or Stay Put
Sort objects based on how they move down ramps.
Talk Together: Building Ramps
Review with children their experiences building ramps and rolling and sliding objects down the ramps.
Talk Together: Building Trackways
Talk with children about their experiences building ramps and trackways and rolling a ball so it travels the entire distance of the track.
Talk Together: Down the Ramp
Introduce the concept of inclined planes by constructing a ramp. Have children predict how objects will move down the ramp.
Talk Together: Even Steeper
Review with children what happens when they increase the steepness of a ramp. Guide the discussion with photographs or videos taken during the week.
Talk Together: How Does It Feel?
Have children take turns feeling a variety of textures of different materials and compare the textures.
Talk Together: I Can Do It!
Review the story The Little Engine That Could. Have children share a time they were afraid to go down an inclined plane.
Talk Together: In Order
Explore ordinal numbers. Have children pick a number card 1–5 and stand on the matching number on a number line.
Talk Together: Introduce Ramps
Introduce ramps by having children move a block without touching it. Demonstrate how things move down a slanted plane.