Category: Level 4: 3 – 4 years

  • Naming My Feelings

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to identify the emotions they feel

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Ask your child to talk about different kinds of feelings they know about. Examples:
      • Happy
      • Sad
      • Scared
      • Mad
      • Surprised
      • Excited
      • Worried
      • Frustrated
    2. Invite your child
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  • Uh Oh! It Was An Accident!

    Your Child Will Learn

    • How their actions affect others and how to apologize

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Talk with your child about what an accident means, and some examples of recent accidents (like: this morning I spilled the milk on
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  • 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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  • Making Friends

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to make a friend

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Choose two stuffed animals (or dolls or action figures).
    2. Use the animals to play pretend, with your child being the voice for one animal and you being
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  • Belly Breathe

    Your Child Will Learn

    A breathing technique to help calm down before bedtime (or anytime!)

    Here’s What to Do

    1. At the end of your child’s bedtime routine, ask them to take a deep breath while lying down in their bed. 
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  • Our Family Dinner Menu

    Your Child Will Learn

    Use drawings and words to communicate the menu for family dinners

    Here’s What to Do

    1. On a large piece of paper, drawing 5 big circles or squares and label them with the days of the week;
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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 Blend Bingo

    Your Child Will Learn

    Words have letter blends in the beginning, middle, or end of them

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Use the Letter Blend Bingo page and word cards to play this game
    2. Explain to your child that you will
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  • Make-Your-Own Concentration Game

    Your Child Will Learn

    Use working memory to match images that are the same

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Ask your child to create multiple sets of 2 drawings that are the same image on small squares of paper (we suggest
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  • Child Friendly Yoga

    Your Child Will Learn

    A way to calm and stretch their bodies 

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Find an open space with room to move.
    2. Do the Spaghetti Test: wiggle your child’s arms and legs to make sure they’re relaxed, like
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