Category: Other

  • Caring and Helping

    Your Child Will Learn

    Ways to show kindness to others

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Play a game of pretend to practice showing kindness. First, ask your child to pretend they have a hurt foot, and show ways you can help
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  • Label Your Home

    Your Child Will Learn

    To identify letters and their sounds

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Before you begin, use post-it notes or small sheets of paper to write labels for 10 objects in your home. Make sure some of the names
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  • Letter Hide & Seek

    Your Child Will Learn

    To identify letter sounds in the middle of words.

    Here’s What to Do

    1.  Think of familiar 3-letter words with a vowel in the middle. Examples: cup, kid, top, nap, bus, pen, fox, get, cat, dog, etc.
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  • Robot Directions

    Your Child Will Learn

    Positional words and spatial awareness

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Choose a goal that you will direct your child, “the robot,” to reach.
    2. Give your child a series of directions to help them get to the goal.
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  • Fresh Air Feelings

    Your Child Will Learn

    A strategy for calming down 

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Notice how your body and mind feel.
    2. Head outside, to an area with trees or plants if possible (or open a window and look outside).
    3. Take 5
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  • People Parts

    Your Child Will Learn

    Names of body parts

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Tell your child you’re going to play a game called People Parts!
    2. One at a time, ask your child to point to different body parts on their body.
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  • Counting Mix Up

    Your Child Will Learn

    Counting up to 10 with one-to-one correspondence, even when the items being counted look different

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Gather 10 small household objects to count (examples: hair clips, blocks, toothpicks). Place them on a surface
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  • Waves, Taps, & Claps

    Your Child Will Learn

    To pay attention to rhyming words in songs

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Choose a simple rhyme or rhyming song to say to your child. 
    2. Wave your hands, tap your child’s body, or clap to emphasize the
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  • Identify Photos of Family & Friends

    Your Child Will Learn

    Your child will learn the names of familiar people

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Gather 4-5 photos of family and friends that your child knows and has relationships with; avoid rare or special photos that you wouldn’t
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  • Rhyme Finds

    Your Child Will Learn

    To enjoy repeating rhyming words and knowing words that rhyme

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Gather objects with names that rhyme (like: a toy cat and a hat, a toy car and a jar, a rag and
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