Category: Level 5: 4 – 5 years

  • Eat the Rainbow

    Your Child Will Learn

    Food vocabulary, colors, and where different foods come from

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Draw a rainbow (include red, yellow, orange, green, blue, and purple stripes). 
    2. Challenge your child to find a food in your kitchen that
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  • Fresh Air Feelings

    Your Child Will Learn

    A strategy for calming down 

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Notice how your body and mind feel.
    2. Head outside, to an area with trees or plants if possible (or open a window and look outside).
    3. 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

    1. 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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  • Inside Our Bodies

    Your Child Will Learn

    Names of internal body parts and how they function

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Cut out the body part pictures (optional: your child can color them first). 
    2. Put a piece of tape on each of the pictures.
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  • Build-A-Track

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to build a simple machine that changes the speed and direction of objects

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Gather a bunch of materials to build a toy race track (examples: cardboard boxes, toilet paper/paper towel rolls,
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  • Creature Scavenger Hunt

    Your Child Will Learn

    Observing the characteristics of animals and considering how they are similar/different

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Head outside to a park, backyard, or other green space. Bring a camera or smartphone if possible.
    2. Search for these (hint:
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  • Silly Running

    Your Child Will Learn

    Fun ways to run and move their body

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Find a space where you can run. Mark a ‘start’ and a ‘finish’ line. Before you begin, notice how you’re breathing. 
    2. Run a race
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  • Dance Your Heart Out

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to increase their heart rate and move their bodies in a fun way

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Help your child find their pulse (two fingers on the inside of their wrist) and notice how fast
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  • Simon Says Stretch

    Your Child Will Learn

    That stretching their muscles is a fun way to care for their body 

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Gather a few family members or friends together and choose a family member to be the first leader (aka
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  • Move Like an Animal

    Your Child Will Learn

    A fun way to move their body and build physical endurance

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Gather everyone in the family who wants to play. Ask a child to choose an animal whose movement you could copy.
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