Week 1: Move It!

Children do a hands-on exploration and then sing a song about what happens to an object when it is dropped and when it is placed at the top of a ramp.

Children participate in this read-aloud using motions, words, and song. They make connections to their own explorations of how objects can be made to move.

Children discuss experiences with playground slides, then learn the fingerplay “The Slide.” They discuss how the force of gravity makes things move down the slide.

Children make a part of their body into a ramp that a cardboard tube will roll down. They draw a picture of themselves as a ramp and dictate a caption.

Children draw pictures and dictate captions about watching things fall, slide, or roll. They then share and discuss their pictures during Circle Time: Wrap-Up.

Children play a tabletop “shuffleboard” game, using little and big pushes to land plastic lids in close and far zones.

Children build ramps and then send small toys or objects down the ramps.

Children try to make a coconut land on a star while exploring how the amount of force, the steepness of a ramp, and the surface texture of the pathway affect how far a coconut will roll.

Children find out which force makes a ball go farthest: rolling, throwing, or kicking.

Children draw pictures and dictate captions about watching things fall, slide, or roll. They then share and discuss their pictures during Circle Time: Wrap-Up.

Children discuss experiences with playground slides, then learn the fingerplay “The Slide.” They discuss how the force of gravity makes things move down the slide.