Category: Level 2: 9 – 18 months

  • Balls in Motion

    Your Child Will Learn

    Exploring how balls move

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Choose two different types of balls and sit on the floor with your child.
    2. Roll the ball(s) in several types of ways. Examples:
      1. Roll the ball gently
      2. Roll
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  • Nature Sensory Walk

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to observe living things in nature

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Head outside to a park, backyard, or anywhere in your neighborhood or community there are trees or plants.
    2. Direct your child’s attention to animals and
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  • Position Play

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to follow directions with position words

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Find a toy and a box big enough to fit the toy inside
    2. Ask your child to place the toy in and out of the
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  • Let’s Get Dressed

    Your Child Will Learn

    Clothing vocabulary words

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Put out some of your child’s clothing on their bed, a table, or flat surface.
    2. Pick up each clothing item and say its name as your child gets dressed.
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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.

    Put PEER Into Action

    PAUSE …

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  • Book Exploration

    Your Child Will Learn

    About the important part of books (like the cover, pages, pictures, and words).

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Set out some books that will gain the interest of your child (soft books, books with textures, board books,
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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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  • The Good Morning Song

    Your Child Will Learn

    Listen to and repeat the words of a shared song

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Pick a song to be your family’s “Good Morning Song.” Use one you know, look up “Good Morning Song” on the internet,
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