Category: Level 4: 3 – 4 years
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Rose, Thorn, Bud
Your Child Will Learn
How to tell an adult about their emotions
Here’s What to Do
- Choose a time when you can do your Rose, Thorn, Bud reflections at the end of every day (like: commute home from school, dinner
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Clean Up Claps
Your Child Will Learn
To put away their things where they belong
Here’s What to Do
- Show your child where their things should go when they come home from school.
- Together, decide on a clapping rhythm that can be a
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Bath Time Story Time
Your Child Will Learn
A way to make bath time more fun
Here’s What to Do
- Tell your child that tonight’s bath time is going to be a story time. Ask what character they’d like the story to be about.
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Musical Tooth Brushing
Your Child Will Learn
A fun way to brush their teeth
Here’s What to Do
- Pick a tooth brushing song. It can be any song 1-2 minutes in length, or search “tooth brushing song” on the internet.
- Play the song
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Rainbow Food
Your Child Will Learn
Names and colors of fruits and vegetables
Here’s What to Do
- Draw a rainbow (include red, yellow, orange, green, blue, and purple stripes).
- Bring your rainbow drawing to the grocery store. Head to the produce section.
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Fresh Air Feelings
Your Child Will Learn
A strategy for calming down
Here’s What to Do
- Notice how your body and mind feel.
- Head outside, to an area with trees or plants if possible (or open a window and look outside).
- Take 5
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Family Challenge Races
Your Child Will Learn
A fun way to move their body and build physical endurance
Here’s What to Do
- Choose which races you want to try. Gather your supplies. Find a long space to be your race course, and mark
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Three Little Pigs Building Challenge
Your Child Will Learn
Investigating characteristics of Earth’s materials
Here’s What to Do
- Read or tell your child the story of the Three Little Pigs.
- Head outside to a park, backyard, or other green space. Bring a small figurine or
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Plant Scavenger Hunt
Your Child Will Learn
About the features of plants and trees
Here’s What to Do
- Head outside to a park, backyard, trail or other green space.
- Search for these parts of trees and plants:
- Leaf
- Flower
- Trunk/Bark
- Seed/Nut
- Stem
- Fruit/Berry
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Silly Running
Your Child Will Learn
Fun ways to run and move their body
Here’s What to Do
- Find a space where you can run. Mark a ‘start’ and a ‘finish’ line. Before you begin, notice how you’re breathing.
- Run a race