Activities

After the children have had some experience with sink and float activities, set up the following experiment. Fill a clear container halfway with water, another with vegetable oil and a third with corn syrup.

After the children have had some experience with sink and float activities, set up the following experiment. Fill three clear containers about 1/2 full – one with water, one with vegetable oil and one with corn syrup.

Read Do You Know Which Ones Will Grow? by Tom Slaughter. Take a walk and have them point out living and nonliving things. Discuss what it will take for living things to grow. This could be done in large group.

Have the children experiment with dropping cold water and warm water on to ice cubes and observing the results. Ask them to summarize what happens in each case. Then encourage them to predict what will happen if they use ice water.

Have the children experiment with dropping cold water and warm water onto ice cubes and observe the results. Ask them to summarize what happens in each case. Then encourage them to predict what will happen if they use ice water.

During outdoor time, fill a plastic bucket about three-fourths full of water. Provide a selection of rocks for the children to drop into the water. As they drop them in one by one, encourage them to notice what is happening to the water level.

During outdoor time, fill a plastic bucket about 3/4 full of water. Provide a selection of rocks for the children to drop into the water. As they drop them in one-by-one, encourage them to notice what is happening to the water level.

Have the children experiment with a variety of objects, noticing if they sink or float and comparing their characteristics. Make charts showing which sink and which float.

In front of the child, place a container with an opening in it, such as a cup with a lid that has a hole in it. Provide a variety of objects to put in the container.

Willaby, Wallaby, Woo

An elephant sat on you

Willaby Wallaby Wes

An elephant sat on Les
(Or Willaby WalIaby Wyelashes

An Elephant sat on my eyelashes)

Sing “Willaby, Wallaby, Woo” with the children. Pause before saying a child's name to give the other children a chance to guess.
Willaby, Wallaby, Woo.

An elephant sat on you.

On a windy day, have the children spray water into the air to see the direction and speed that the wind is blowing. Assist the children by having them stand in different places on the playground.

Have the children decorate recycled materials such as cans, plastic bottles, yogurt containers, old CDs or metal lids. Tie them together with yarn to create wind chimes to hang up around the playground.  This could be done in small group.

Take the infant outside and place him/her on a blanket. Use yarn to securely tie wind chimes to a structure so the chimes are suspended about 6 inches from the ground. Encourage the infant to stretch to reach the wind chimes.

Give each child ten straws. Lay tape on the table sticky side up and encourage the children to place straws next to each other evenly. Pull tape around all straws securely but allowing straws to lay flat on table.

Give each child a piece of colored construction paper to decorate with crayons, colored pencils or markers. Have the children roll the paper up and tape to secure. Attach crepe paper as streamers to the bottom.

Take wind socks outside on a breezy day and have the children run, move or dance with the wind sock during outdoor time. You can suggest how you want the children to move, such as move like you are happy or move like you are angry.

Take wind socks outside on a breezy day and have the children run, move or dance with the wind sock, during outdoor time. You can suggest how you want the children to move, such as move like you are happy or move like you are angry.

Place wind-up water toys in a tub of water for the children to explore. Show them how to turn the knob or key on the toy to wind it up. Place it in the water and watch it move. Encourage comments about speed. “The duck is going fast.

Take the infant to a window and discuss what he/she sees in the sky. Point out the clouds, for example. Say, "It's daytime. The sun is shining." Another time say, "It's starting to get dark. The sky is dark blue.