Category: Learning Throughout the Day

  • Toy Patterns

    Your Child Will Learn

    Introduction to patterns

    Here’s What to Do

    1. With your child, gather two different types of small toys (like blocks and toy cars, or balls and stuffed animals). Sort them into 2 piles based on their types.
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  • Step Counting

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    Step Counting with the Espinoza‘s

    Malikk’s Great Step Adventure

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to count 5 objects with one-to-one correspondence (counting each object in a set …

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  • Count on Me

    Your Child Will Learn

    Introduction to counting with one-to-one correspondence

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Count your baby’s fingers and toes, touching them one at a time while counting out loud.
    2. Kiss or tickle your baby’s ears, nose, bellybutton, elbows, etc.
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  • Clean Up Countdown

    Your Child Will Learn

    Counting backwards from 10-0

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Pick something in your house that needs to be put away (like clothes into a drawer, crayons into a box, dishes into the dishwasher). Try to choose something
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  • Pattern Play

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to complete a complex pattern

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Gather around 15 small objects in 3 different colors or sizes  (like 3 colors of blocks, 3 sizes of paper clips, 3 types of coins)
    2. Arrange
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  • Kitchen Patterns

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to extend a 3-object pattern

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Gather a bunch of kitchen utensils (fork, spoon, butter knife). Ask your child to sort them.
    2. Place them in a simple pattern of 3 objects, repeating
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  • Number Names

    Your Child Will Learn

    Words we use to describe the number of things

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Throughout the day, use as many number words as possible.
    2. Ask your baby “how many” things there are.

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  • Snack Subtraction

    Your Child Will Learn

    Solving subtraction problems with 10 items or fewer.

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Put 10 small pieces of food (like cereal) on a plate and ask your child to count them.
    2. Ask your child how many pieces
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  • Snack Subtraction

    Your Child Will Learn

    Introductory subtraction

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Put 5 small pieces of food (like cereal) on a plate and count them for your child (point as you count).
    2. Ask your child to remove 1 piece. Count how
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  • Snack Addition

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    Snack Addition with Malikk

    Snack Addition with the Holloways

    Your Child Will Learn

    Solving addition problems that add up to 10

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Put 5 small pieces
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