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Feed My Letter Monsters Sounds!

They're sooo..... Hungry!

HOW DOES WIND MOVE?

Make a pinwheel & explore!

How does wind move objects? How can my body move objects? This fitness and science exploration asks open-ended questions to help preschoolers discover answers on their own. Preschoolers will run, jump and twirl to stay active as they use simple science tools to investigate wind and movement.

To explain one reason wind changes direction, have each child put a piece of paper in front of his mouth. Blow like the wind and watch the paper move. Did the wind go through the paper? No. It went up over the paper or out to the side around the paper.

Imagine the paper is a mountain. Will the mountain move like the paper did? No. The wind can’t go through it so it has to go up and over the mountain.

FEATHER GAME

Pair you children off and give them a feather. Tell them to try to keep the feather in the air by blowing it. Explain that the air they are blowing out of their mouth is like the wind outside.

WINDY BOOKS!

When the Wind Stops

by Charlotte Zolotow

Feel the Wind

by Arthur Dorros

The Life of a Leaf

You are a tiny leaf bud on a tree. In the spring you grow into a small leaf. When the rain falls down you grow into a big leaf. You twist and turn all summer to find the sun. With all your leaf friends you make an umbrella of shade (kids can clump together) to keep people cool. Now slide away to your own space.

One day it gets cool and you tremble slowly. You better hold on to your branch tightly. Because it’s so cold, you turn into a bright orange leaf. The wind lifts you up and down. The wind rocks you side to side. It gets colder every day so you shake. You shake faster and faster. You twist and spin and hold on to the branch with all your strength.

Suddenly you can’t hold on, so you fly around the yard. You love being free so you dance. Now bounce up as high as you can. Slide low under a bush. Now hop as fast as you can. Stop and reach to the sky. A gust of wind pushes you into a whirl.

You land in the stream, and float slowly down the hill. You’re getting tired so you hug a giant rock. The water is pushing against you. Climb up to the top of the rock. Balance on one part of you. You wave to your friends on the tree. You want to get back so you leap as far as you can. You fall into the stream and dive deep. You swim then pop up for some air. At last you rest on the shore. You pick up your head when you hear your friend Doug. You laugh out loud to see all your friends come together again.

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