The Age 5-7 Materials Kit - S, SS, LA provides materials used in hands-on activities across the full year. These activities help students make rain in a jar, track a growing bean plant, measure changes in height, and create sound patterns as they explore weather, plant growth, communities, change over time, and patterns.

Engage Your Child with a Hands-on Curriculum

This kit provides over 50 materials used in activities throughout these units. Here are a few examples your child will complete.

• Discover How Rain Forms: Your child predicts what will happen when ice is placed above warm water, then observes droplets forming inside a jar. The activity connects cooling and condensation to the formation of rain.
• Explore How Plants Change as They Grow: Your child plants a bean seed, cares for it, and records its growth with drawings. Repeated observations help your child recognize plant growth as a pattern and connect sunlight, water, and soil with plant needs.
• Measure Change Over Time: Your child creates a growth chart, records heights from different ages, and compares the results. Measuring and organizing this information shows how personal history can be documented with evidence and how growth occurs over time.
• Explore How Patterns Are Built: Your child creates and labels color, shape, object, and number patterns on a poster. Building examples such as ABAB, ABC, and AABB helps your child recognize how repeated parts create different pattern structures.

Making Hands-on activities Easier to Implement

Hands-on learning across science, social studies, and language arts can involve many different supplies. The Age 5-7 Materials Kit - S, SS, LA brings together materials used across these activities, reducing preparation and helping families focus on observing, questioning, creating, comparing, and discussing what their child learns

The following items are included in this kit. This list is subject to change.

• clay
• green bag
• index cards
• instruction page
• ruler
• sunflower seeds
• tape measure
• yarn
• "Summer Fun" page
• construction paper
• feather
• glitter
• matches
• paint
• paintbrush
• pencil
• push pin
• seasons and clothing pages
• seeds
• handwriting paper
• magnets
• nail
• paper clip
• thumbtack
• food coloring
• plastic cups
• home puzzles
• A and B die-cuts
• beads
• Caterpillar Patterns game
• circle and square die-cuts
• colored strips die-cuts
• dot stickers
• bean seeds
• cotton ball
• dry-erase marker
• fabric pieces
• manila folder
• metal brads
• small rocks
• soil
• sponge
• Styrofoam cup
• bar magnets
• cotton balls
• Earth, Sun, Moon model pages
• hanger
• heart pattern
• paper clips
• paper cups
• paper plate
• paper sack
• potting soil
• craft sticks