Category: Learning Throughout the Day
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Making Connections
Your Child Will Learn
How to connect what they read in books to real-life experiences.
Here’s What to Do
- Invite your child to read with you and let them choose the book.
- While reading, connect this story to your own
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Picture Walk Read-Aloud
Your Child Will Learn
How to use a book’s pictures to tell a story.
Here’s What to Do
- Choose a picture book that tells a story (ideally one your child hasn’t read before or doesn’t know very well).
- Point to
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Let’s Make Pizza!
Your Child Will Learn
How to prepare a meal and talk about food they like or don’t like
Here’s What to Do
- Gather all of the ingredients you need and set them up together with your child.
- Let your child
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Bilingual Word Chart
Your Child Will Learn
Communication of words in different languages
Here’s What to Do
- Cut-out 4-5 pictures from magazines and newspapers or print pictures from the internet (picture examples: water, foods, facial expressions, body parts, animals, etc.)
- Glue the pictures
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Letters on the Road
Your Child Will Learn
To identify uppercase and lowercase letters
Here’s What to Do
- While on a long drive or bus ride, ask your child to identify uppercase and lowercase letters on road and traffic signs throughout your journey. (Or,
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Picture This!
Your Child Will Learn
Using pictures to spell words by sequencing the sounds of letters
Here’s What to Do
- Select picture examples of words with 3-4 letters from the internet, magazines, or newspapers
- Hold up the pictures, slowly saying the
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Sentence Hunter
Your Child Will Learn
Use simple words to form sentences with words in the proper order
Here’s What to Do
- Create a variety of word strips by writing simple nouns, pronouns, verbs, and adjectives on small strips of paper that
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Seeing Sight Words
Your Child Will Learn
How to recognize, say, and spell sight words
Here’s What to Do
- Create a list of simple sight words that your child can learn to recognize without sounding them out and write them on poster paper.
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Writing About My Things
Your Child Will Learn
Write simple words to describe my things
Here’s What to Do
- Have your child gather 2-3 things that belong to them, like small toys and or things they take to school everyday
- Work with your child
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I Spy a Clean Floor
Your Child Will Learn
How to help clean up after mealtimes
Here’s What to Do
- Ask your child for help cleaning up the floor after a meal. Give your child a dustpan and brush, a child-sized broom, or a small