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Children will identify properties of sand.

Science Focus: properties of Earth materials

Simple, spectacular ideas to boost your lessons.

• In this sandy take on "The House That Jack Built," Lola’s day at the beach leads her to make new friends.
• When they all work together, they build a giant sandcastle!

• The words can and yes are decodable words that are also sight words.
• Together, circle every can in the mini book. Then use a different color to circle every yes.

Skill: engineering design

Materials: sand or paper and crayons

• If you have a sand table or sandbox, let kids take turns working in pairs to build something with damp sand. It can be a sandcastle or any structure or sculpture they like! You can take pictures of each creation and post them on a bulletin board.
• If you don’t have access to sand, have children draw something they would like to create with sand and write a sentence describing it.