Category: At Home

  • Community I Spy

    Your Child Will Learn

    To identify the beginning, middle, and end sounds of spoken words with help from adults.

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Plan an outing in your community, like a visit to the park, a pond, or shopping center.
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  • Syllable Movement

    Your Child Will Learn

    Count 1-3 syllables in words with help from adults.

    Here’s What to Do

    1. With your child, choose 3 different movements you’ll do together. (For example, tapping your head, placing hands on your hips, touching your knees).
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  • Waves, Taps, & Claps

    Your Child Will Learn

    To pay attention to rhyming words in songs

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Choose a simple rhyme or rhyming song to say to your child. 
    2. Wave your hands, tap your child’s body, or clap to emphasize the
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  • Identify Photos of Family & Friends

    Your Child Will Learn

    Your child will learn the names of familiar people

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Gather 4-5 photos of family and friends that your child knows and has relationships with; avoid rare or special photos that you wouldn’t
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  • Rhyme Finds

    Your Child Will Learn

    To enjoy repeating rhyming words and knowing words that rhyme

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Gather objects with names that rhyme (like: a toy cat and a hat, a toy car and a jar, a rag and
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  • Do This Then That!

    Your Child Will Learn

    To listen to, remember and follow 3-4 step directions.

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Create three-step directions for your child to follow; get silly and have fun with this!
    2. Preface each command with “do this…then that…then that…”
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  • Talking Turns

    Your Child Will Learn

    Learning to take turns and follow rules of communication when speaking in a group.

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Have your child or children work together to find or create an object to wear or hold when
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  • Self-Talk Tasks

    Your Child Will Learn

    To observe, listen, and learn vocabulary about everyday objects

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Pick a simple task that your child can observe you doing as you hold them or as they sit in a bouncer or
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  • The Good Morning Song

    Your Child Will Learn

    Listen to and repeat the words of a shared song

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Pick a song to be your family’s “Good Morning Song.” Use one you know, look up “Good Morning Song” on the internet,
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