Category: Learning Throughout the Day

  • Does it Float?

    Your Child Will Learn

    The scientific process: making a hypothesis, experimenting, and determining results

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Gather objects from around the house. If possible, find a mix of things that you know will sink (coins, marbles, rocks), float
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  • Position Play

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to follow directions with position words

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Find a toy and a box big enough to fit the toy inside
    2. Ask your child to place the toy in and out of the
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  • Let’s Get Dressed

    Your Child Will Learn

    Clothing vocabulary words

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Put out some of your child’s clothing on their bed, a table, or flat surface.
    2. Pick up each clothing item and say its name as your child gets dressed.
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  • Words in Books

    Your Child Will Learn

    Written words in books have meanings that correspond with the pictures

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Choose a book with short sentences and lots of pictures.
    2. While reading the book to your child, ask them questions about
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  • Toy Talk

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to focus attention on someone talking to them

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Select one of your child’s favorite toys, like a stuffed animal or doll.
    2. Move the toy around and narrate what the toy’s doing.
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  • Our Word Wall

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to learn new vocabulary words and sort these words into groups

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Choose a place in your home where you can display a collection of words with your child or children; make
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  • All the Parts of Books

    Your Child Will Learn

    Learn about the parts of books and where to find them

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Use a book that your child is very familiar with as an example to explore. As you read, explain the parts
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  • Position Practice

    Your Child Will Learn

    Positional Words

    Here’s What to Do

    1. As you go through your day,  try to focus on using positional words when talking to your baby.
    2. Examples of positional words: above/below, in front/behind, between, next to, inside/outside, over/under,
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  • Kitchen Sorting

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to sort objects into different categories and describe characteristics of objects

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Ask your child for help putting away kitchen items like dishes, utensils, pots. (Before you begin, you can put away
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  • Grocery Grouping

    Your Child Will Learn

    Sorting objects into two groups that have shared characteristics

    Here’s What to Do

    1. When you are unpacking groceries (or other items from shopping bags), ask your child to help sort the items.
    2. Choose two categories and
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