Category: Level 5: 4 – 5 years

  • Explore A Local Monument

    Your Child Will Learn

    Monuments are natural or manmade structures that celebrates a special person or historical moment 

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Visit a local monument that your child can physically interact with through sight, sound, or touch 
    2. Explain who
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  • Explore A Local Landmark

    Your Child Will Learn

    Landmarks are large structures that represent ideas and tell stories about surrounding environments

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Visit a local landmark that your child can physically interact with through sight, sound, or touch 
    2. Explain what the
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  • Family Treasures

    Your Child Will Learn

    Family histories are remembered by looking at heirlooms and special objects passed down from generation to generation 

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Select a family heirloom or special object that was passed down to you from an
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  • Family Schedule

    Your Child Will Learn

    People remember what to do throughout the day by using a schedule

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Create a family schedule on large paper with the days of the week and times so your children understand when
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  • Family Recipes

    Your Child Will Learn

    Families pass down recipes for memories and special occasions

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Think of a family recipe that is connected to a memory or special occasion
    2. Share how you learned the recipe, who taught it
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  • Family Safety Plan

    Your Child Will Learn

    During an emergency, there a things we should do and places we should go to be safe

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Discuss potential emergency situations that are specific to your regional location, like fires, floods, tornadoes,
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  • Family Yard Sale

    Your Child Will Learn

    People earn money by selling goods 

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Work together as a family to plan and gather household items to sell at a family yard sale
    2. Have your children create price tags and design
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  • Shadow Puppets

    Your Child Will Learn

    Exploring light and shadow with puppets

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Turn a flashlight on and turn the lights out. Use your hands to make a shadow on the wall, and talk about what’s happening. (You can
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  • Family Dinner Counting

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to organize data with a chart

    Here’s What to Do

    1. At the beginning of the week, make a chart. Draw 7 columns and label them with every day of the week across the top. Draw
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  • Dramatic Play

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to express themselves and apply learning through play

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Invite your child(ren) to play pretend with you. Decide what you’d like to play together. Some ideas:
      • Use your kitchen table to play
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