Water

Summer 2014

Opening Song: “The Wheels on the Bus” by Larry Groce (Disney Children’s Favorite Songs Volume 4) [It’s time to get on the bus and go to story time!]

Movement Song: “Can’t Sit Still” by Greg & Steve (Kids in Action)

Announce Theme: Water

Listening Song: “If You Want to Hear a Story”

Book: Over in a River Flowing Out to Sea by Marianne Berkes

Song with Flannel Board: “Five Frogs” by Anna Moo

Experiments: Sink or float (feather, pompom, penny, toothpick, rock, die, eraser, paperclip), Sink the boat (try to sink boat made of aluminum foil & craft sticks with toy dinosaurs)

Additional Books:

All the Water in the World by George Ella Lyon

In the Small, Small Pond by Denise Fleming

PreK & K:

Read Big Bear’s Big Boat by Eve Bunting or Who Sank the Boat? by Pamela Allen

Activity: Build boats with aluminum foil, craft sticks, and tape. Then see if they float with and without passengers (toy dinosaurs)