Category: Level 5: 4 – 5 years
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Super Smoothie
Your Child Will Learn
How to prepare and enjoy a healthy snack
Here’s What to Do
- Gather smoothie ingredients and a blender or food processor. Try to include one ingredient from each category:
- Something frozen (frozen fruit, or ice cubes)
- Gather smoothie ingredients and a blender or food processor. Try to include one ingredient from each category:
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Soup Chef
Your Child Will Learn
Food groups and cooking skills
Here’s What to Do
- Gather ingredients for your soup. Try to include one ingredient from each of these categories:
- Liquid (water, stock, broth, etc.)
- Soup starter aromatics (garlic, onion, ginger, peppers,
- Gather ingredients for your soup. Try to include one ingredient from each of these categories:
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Explore-a-veggie
Your Child Will Learn
That the same food can taste differently depending on how it’s prepared
Here’s What to Do
- Ask your child to pick a vegetable to explore.
- Choose a few different ways to prepare the veggie. Examples:
- Raw
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Robot Directions
Your Child Will Learn
Positional words and spatial awareness
Here’s What to Do
- Choose a goal that you will direct your child, “the robot,” to reach.
- Give your child a series of directions to help them get to the goal.
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Draw your Feelings
Your Child Will Learn
How to communicate their feelings to an adult
Here’s What to Do
- Ask your child to close their eyes and notice how their body and mind are feeling.
- Invite your child to sit down and draw
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Calm Corner
Your Child Will Learn
Strategies to help calm big emotions
Here’s What to Do
- With your child(ren), brainstorm some actions that help them calm down when they’re upset. Some ideas:
- Rainbow breath (arms up on the inhale, down on the
- With your child(ren), brainstorm some actions that help them calm down when they’re upset. Some ideas:
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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