Category: At Home
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Bilingual Word Chart
Your Child Will Learn
Communication of words in different languages
Here’s What to Do
- Cut-out 4-5 pictures from magazines and newspapers or print pictures from the internet (picture examples: water, foods, facial expressions, body parts, animals, etc.)
- Glue the pictures
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Picture Rhymes
Your Child Will Learn
How to identify two words that rhyme
Here’s What to Do
- Cut out 4-8 picture examples of words that will rhyme from magazines, newspapers, and junk mail ads (or, find rhyming objects from around your home,
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Picture This!
Your Child Will Learn
Using pictures to spell words by sequencing the sounds of letters
Here’s What to Do
- Select picture examples of words with 3-4 letters from the internet, magazines, or newspapers
- Hold up the pictures, slowly saying the
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Sentence Hunter
Your Child Will Learn
Use simple words to form sentences with words in the proper order
Here’s What to Do
- Create a variety of word strips by writing simple nouns, pronouns, verbs, and adjectives on small strips of paper that
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Say and Make Drawings
Your Child Will Learn
To participate in shared storytelling.
Here’s What to Do
- Gather drawing and coloring materials and a large sheet of paper.
- Remember something that you did with your child recently. You’ll create a drawing about the event
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Writing About My Things
Your Child Will Learn
Write simple words to describe my things
Here’s What to Do
- Have your child gather 2-3 things that belong to them, like small toys and or things they take to school everyday
- Work with your child
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I Spy a Clean Floor
Your Child Will Learn
How to help clean up after mealtimes
Here’s What to Do
- Ask your child for help cleaning up the floor after a meal. Give your child a dustpan and brush, a child-sized broom, or a small
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I Can Serve Myself
Your Child Will Learn
How to serve themselves food during mealtime
Here’s What to Do
- Talk about the food choices that are on the table.
- Show your child how you put food on your own plate, and talk about it
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Silly Salad Face
Your Child Will Learn
How to enjoy a fun and healthy snack
Here’s What to Do
- Invite your child to make a Silly Salad Face. Ask them what fruits and vegetables they’d like to use to make a face. Choose
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Calm Your Body
Your Child Will Learn
A way to calm their body before falling asleep
Here’s What to Do
- Find a space where you can move. Invite your child to notice how their body feels.
- With your child, wiggle your arms and