Category: Creativity and Movement

  • Fast and Slow Music

    Your Child Will Learn

    Exploring movement and music

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Place your baby on a blanket on the floor. Play some music or sing to your baby.
    2. Hand your baby a scarf, tissue, or handkerchief, and hold one
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  • Water Color

    Your Child Will Learn

    Making predictions and conducting a simple experiment

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Invite your child to draw with markers or chalk on a piece of paper.
    2. Fill a spray bottle with water, and ask your child to
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  • Music All Around Us

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to recognize music in the world around us

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Begin in a relatively quiet environment indoors or outside.
    2. Walk around and notice the sounds that you hear (birds chirping, horns honking, faucet
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  • Build A Community

    Your Child Will Learn

    Communities have a variety of places and spaces for different purposes

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Talk to your child about the community you live in by listing and describing different places and spaces you frequent together
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  • All My Can-Dos

    Your Child Will Learn

    They can do important things with different parts of their body

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Trace an outline of your child’s body on large poster paper with a pencil or maker
    2. Ask your child, “what are
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  • Build A Model

    Your Child Will Learn

    You can use small materials to make models of real-life structures

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Read a non-fiction book about well-known structures such as bridges, towers, tall buildings, walls, and etc.
    2. Ask your child to draw
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  • Change of Seasons

    Your Child Will Learn

    Weather, temperature, and landscapes change from season to season

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Ask your child to describe the weather, temperature, and landscape for fall, winter, spring, and summer in your region
    2. Discuss what clothes your
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  • Create A How-To Book

    Your Child Will Learn

    I know how to do tasks in a specific order and I can teach this to others

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Ask your child to think of a daily task they know how to do well,
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  • Days of the Week

    Your Child Will Learn

    Each day has a name and the days of the week have a specific order

    Here’s What to Do

    1. On a large sheet of paper, draw a caterpillar with eight connected circles 
    2. Draw a smiley face
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  • Explore A Local Monument

    Your Child Will Learn

    Monuments are natural or manmade structures that celebrates a special person or historical moment 

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Visit a local monument that your child can physically interact with through sight, sound, or touch 
    2. Explain who
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