Category: Learning Throughout the Day

  • May I Take Your Order, Please?

    Your Child Will Learn

    To communicate effectively to help others get what they need

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Invite your child to play a restaurant game at the beginning of dinner. They’ll be the server, and they need to take
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  • Let’s Go Shopping

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to find and sort an object that matches an attribute

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Give your child a large bag and invite them to help with a fun cleanup activity.
    2. Pretend you are shopping, and
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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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  • 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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  • Today, Yesterday, & Tomorrow

    Your Child Will Learn

    Sometimes we use the words today, yesterday, and tomorrow to describe days of the week

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Add the words today, yesterday, and tomorrow to the caterpillar drawing from the Days of the Week
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  • Tell Me A Story

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to tell stories.

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Work together to create about 20 “story cards” on index cards (or paper). You can make them all at once, or spread it out over several days and
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  • Family Dinner Counting

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to organize data with a chart

    Here’s What to Do

    1. At the beginning of the week, make a chart. Draw 7 columns and label them with every day of the week across the top. Draw
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  • More or Less?

    Your Child Will Learn

    Comparing the amounts of two groups of objects

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Wherever you are (home, playground, bus, store, etc.), direct your child’s attention to compare groups of objects. Try to find groups with 5 items
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  • Fast and Slow Music

    Your Child Will Learn

    That music has different speeds (tempos)

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Play some music, perhaps while in the car. Hand your child a tissue and tell them to wave the tissue to the speed of the music.
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  • I Know That Story

    Your Child Will Learn

    To enjoy reading familiar books with adults.

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Choose one of your child’s favorite books, ideally one with repeating phrases.
    2. Prompt your child to join you when you read the repetitive phrases on
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