Category: Learning Throughout the Day

  • Making Connections

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to connect what they read in books to real-life experiences.

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Invite your child to read with you and let them choose the book.
    2. 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

    1. Choose a picture book that tells a story (ideally one your child hasn’t read before or doesn’t know very well).
    2. 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

    1. Gather all of the ingredients you need and set them up together with your child.
    2. 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

    1. 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.)
    2. 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

    1. 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

    1. Select picture examples of words with 3-4 letters from the internet, magazines, or newspapers
    2. 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

    1. 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

    1. 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

    1. Have your child gather 2-3 things that belong to them, like small toys and or things they take to school everyday
    2. 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

    1. 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
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