Category: At Home
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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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Bath Time Book
Your Child Will Learn
A way to make bath time more fun
Here’s What to Do
- Choose a book to be your “bath time book.” Bring it into the bathroom during bath time.
- Read a page or two, and then
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Doll Routines
Your Child Will Learn
A game to help make them excited about personal hygiene routines
Here’s What to Do
- Ask your child to choose a favorite doll or stuffed animal
- As you go through your morning or evening routine, ask
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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
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Eat the Rainbow
Your Child Will Learn
Food vocabulary, colors, and where different foods come from
Here’s What to Do
- Draw a rainbow (include red, yellow, orange, green, blue, and purple stripes).
- 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
- Notice how your body and mind feel.
- Head outside, to an area with trees or plants if possible (or open a window and look outside).
- 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
- 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
- Cut out the body part pictures (optional: your child can color them first).
- Put a piece of tape on each of the pictures.
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People Parts
Your Child Will Learn
Names of body parts
Here’s What to Do
- Tell your child you’re going to play a game called People Parts!
- One at a time, ask your child to point to different body parts on their body.