Materials
This list gives you an overview of all the materials you will need throughout this four-week unit, except for the materials used in the Learning Centers. (Those are indicated with each Learning Center.) Note that you will also find a list of specific materials needed for each week at the beginning of that week.
- Between the Lions alphabet chart
- art materials beginning with “Zz” (e.g, letter and zebra stickers, “zero” stamp, zipper stencil, etc.)
- bag
- boxes, building blocks, and other objects for supporting the ramps
- three boxes or baskets for sorting
- butter containers
- large calendar
- camera
- cardboard tubes of different lengths—paper towel, toilet paper, wrapping paper, mailing tubes (cut some of the tubes horizontally to form open troughs)
- chalk
- chart paper
- children’s name cards
- children’s name chart
- clipboard
- collection of nonspherical objects that roll or slide down ramps, for example, a roll of tape, eraser, marker, stuffed animal, blocks
- craft sticks
- large cutout of a ramp
- drawing paper
- flat pieces of cardboard, foam core, and/or wood
- glitter
- glue
- half of an egg carton (one for each child)
- large hoop
- letter cards: “Dd,” “Ee,” “Hh,” “Rr,” “Uu,” “Zz”
- large marbles
- magazines
- markers, pencils, crayons
- masking tape
- multiple sets of the magnetic or plastic letters “D,” “d,” “E,” and “e”
- number cards (1–5)
- number chart (includes the number zero)
- objects for a “predict and test” activity (an orange, a small box, a football, a triangular and a cylindrical wooden building block)
- objects to serve as obstacles (e.g., cardboard tubes, toy cars, blocks, pencils, etc.)
- objects with a zipper (e.g., shoe, boot, jacket, bag, etc.)
- large outlines of uppercase letters “E,” “H,” “U,” “Z” (one per child)
- packaging tape
- paper alphabet letters
- paper with a fold one-third of the way down to represent ramps (short part is ramp support; long part is ramp), one per child
- pictures (demonstrating opposites: e.g., up/down, day/night; of ramps and slides: e.g., roller coasters, playground slides etc.; of things beginning with the /r/ sound)
- picture of a bike rider going down a steep hill
- pictures of a washing machine, a vacuum, and a plane
- pictures of different kinds of buses
- pictures of objects and animals beginning with the /h/ sound (e.g., hand, hammer, hamster, hat, heart, hen, hog, hippopotamus, horse, house, hummingbird, etc.)
- pictures of small objects, some that begin with “Ee” and some that do not
- pictures of things with wheels
- pictures of trackways (cars or trains)
- picture or photograph of a train showing an engine, cars, and the wheels on the tracks
- pictures or stickers of objects that children have sent down ramps
- PVC pipe, pieces of gutter, wooden trim (the ones with a trough in the middle keep balls nicely in the track)
- rug
- scissors
- sentence chart
- sentence strips
- stick
- sticky notes (optional)
- string
- strips of white paper
- tape
- tempera paints
- toy bus
- toy racecar and train tracks (or similar toys with tracks)
- toys with wheels
- tray for paper letters
- variety of balls, different sizes and weights—beachball, kickball, tennis ball, ping pong ball, wiffle ball, golf ball, football, etc.
- white paper
- wide, flexible hoses from shop vacs or sump pumps (look for these in the plumbing section of hardware stores)
- word cards: down, engine, hill, ramp, up, zoom
Books
Roller Coaster by Marla Frazee
Mama Zooms by Jane Cowen-Fletcher
Roll, Slope, and Slide: A Book About Ramps by Michael Dahl
What Do Wheels Do All Day? by April Jones Prince
The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper
Ten on the Sled by Kim Norman
Samantha on a Roll by Linda Ashman
What Is a Scientist? by Barbara Lehn
Videos
“Roller Coaster” (BTL show) (0:06:21)
“Words Beginning with ‘z”’ (BTL clip) (0:00:18)
“Word Morph: zero–zebra–zinnia” (BTL clip) (0:00:29)
“The Whatchamacallit” (PEEP show) (0:08:45)
“Get Your Mouth Moving (u)” (BTL clip) (0:00:21)
“What’s Your Name? (u)” (BTL clip) (0:00:45)
“What Do Wheels Do All Day?” (BTL show) (0:04:56)
“Song: What’s Your Name (e)” (BTL clip) (0:00:49)
“Song: Doo Wop (e)” (BTL clip) (0:00:20)
“Rolling Down a Hill” (PEEP live-action clip) (0:01:28)
“Hung up on ‘h’” (BTL clip) (0:01:57)
“Words Beginning with ‘h’” (BTL clip) (0:00:10)
“Building Ramps” (PEEP live-action clip) (0:01:28)
“Homemade Hills” (PEEP live-action clip) (0:01:28)
Songs
“Alphabet Hokey Pokey”
“Climb On!”
“Good-bye to You”
“I Can Do It”
“If Your Name . . .”
“Keep on Trying”
“She’ll Be Rolling”
“The Grand Old Duke of York”
“The More We Get Together”
“The Wheels on the Bus”
“The Wheels on the Train”
“There Were Ten in the Bed”
“Will You Meet a Friend of Mine?”
“Yes, I Can!”
Poems/Chants
“Down the Ramp”
“Feelings”
“I Have a Good Friend”
“Jack and Jill”
“On the Hill”
“One Ramp, Two Ramps”
“Over, Under, Around, and Through”
“Show Us Something You Can Do”
“The Slide”
“Who’s On the Hill?”
“Zoom, Zoom, Zoom”
Interactive Game
“Quack’s Apples” (PEEP game)
Playlist
Unit 5 Media Assets (BTL and PEEP)
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