Category: Learning in the Community

  • My Favorite Place

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to explore their environment and learn about a place in their community.

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Take your child to a favorite place in your community. Bring snacks and drawing materials.
    2. Give them a tour
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  • Map A Nature Trail

    Your Child Will Learn

    Use basic geographic knowledge and tools to create a map 

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Visit a closeby nature trail where your child can navigate pathways and experience sightings of different animals, plants, flowers, trees, insects, bodies
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  • Map Our Community

    Your Child Will Learn

    Maps are detailed pictures that explain where things are located

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Before taking your child on a 10-15 minute walk in your neighborhood, discuss what a map is and show them a visual
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  • Explore A Museum

    Your Child Will Learn

    Museums are spaces where people can learn about the things they see and experience

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Plan a trip to a child-friendly museum
    2. While inside the museum, tell your child to point to things
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  • Grocery List Games

    Your Child Will Learn

    Using vocabulary to share ideas

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Invite your child to help make your grocery list.
    2. Talk about the types of food you eat for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. With your child, determine
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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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  • Neighborhood Walk and Talk

    Your Child Will Learn

    Different jobs people have in your community

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Take your child on a walk around your neighborhood or a local shopping center. Stop in one or a few local establishments (post office, grocery
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  • Attend A Community Festival

    Your Child Will Learn

    Communities come together to celebrate many things, like culture and customs

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Plan to attend a local festival in your community that is family-friendly and appropriate for children
    2. Seek festivals with hands-on activities
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