Category: Level 4: 3 – 4 years

  • Map Our Community

    Your Child Will Learn

    Maps are detailed pictures that explain where things are located

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Before taking your child on a 10-15 minute walk in your neighborhood, discuss what a map is and show them a visual
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  • Explore A Museum

    Your Child Will Learn

    Museums are spaces where people can learn about the things they see and experience

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Plan a trip to a child-friendly museum
    2. While inside the museum, tell your child to point to things
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  • Colors of the Seasons

    Your Child Will Learn

    Certain colors are associated with the different seasons

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Discuss the four seasons according to the regional climate you live in
    2. Ask your child to describe the colors of the sky and land
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  • The Clothes We Wear

    Your Child Will Learn

    Clothing is a creative form of expression

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Cut up some fabric scraps or old clothes with bright and interesting colors and designs
    2. Ask your child to draw a self-portrait and have them
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  • Water Color

    Your Child Will Learn

    Making predictions and conducting a simple experiment

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Invite your child to draw with markers or chalk on a piece of paper.
    2. Fill a spray bottle with water, and ask your child to
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  • Wait and Count

    Your Child Will Learn

    A strategy to use when they need to wait

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Invite your child to practice waiting.
    2. Give them a simple counting task to complete when you leave the room (like: counting red things
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  • Grocery List Games

    Your Child Will Learn

    Using vocabulary to share ideas

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Invite your child to help make your grocery list.
    2. Talk about the types of food you eat for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. With your child, determine
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  • Music All Around Us

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to recognize music in the world around us

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Begin in a relatively quiet environment indoors or outside.
    2. Walk around and notice the sounds that you hear (birds chirping, horns honking, faucet
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  • Neighborhood Walk and Talk

    Your Child Will Learn

    Different jobs people have in your community

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Take your child on a walk around your neighborhood or a local shopping center. Stop in one or a few local establishments (post office, grocery
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  • 3Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle)

    Your Child Will Learn

    People can reduce, reuse, and recycle certain items to prevent waste 

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Create a chart on poster paper with 3 columns labeled reduce, reuse, and recycle 
    2. Explain the definitions of reduce, reuse, and
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