Category: At Home

  • Community History Expert

    Your Child Will Learn

    More about where they live and how it has changed over time

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Together with your child, brainstorm someone you know who has lived in your community for a long time. It could
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  • Make Believe Jobs

    Your Child Will Learn

    About community jobs and money

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Ask your child if they’d like to play bus driver, restaurant, or store.
    2. Set up your props. Examples:
      • Bus: place chairs or pillows in a rectangle for
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  • Piggy Bank

    Your Child Will Learn

    About coins and saving money

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Find an empty container that can be repurposed as a “Piggy Bank.” It could be an empty tissue box, a clean food container, a jar, etc.. Together
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  • Guess My Job

    Your Child Will Learn

    About jobs in the community and dramatic play

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Tell your child you’re going to play a game called ‘Guess my Job.’ Explain how it works: you’ll take turns pretending to do a
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  • Map Our House

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to make a map and visual-spatial skills

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Draw the shape of your home’s perimeter on a piece of paper (if your home has more than one level, pick one floor to
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  • Map My Day

    Your Child Will Learn

    Map making and how to get places they need to go

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Talk with your child about their schedule for tomorrow. Mention the places they need to go, and in what order.
    2. Help
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  • World Dance Party

    Your Child Will Learn

    People around the world enjoy special music from their cultures, and dancing to that music is fun!

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Using the internet, find music from all around the world. Search songs from your family’s
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  • Heritage Tree Leaf

    Your Child Will Learn

    About their family and their family’s culture and traditions

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Talk about your family:
      • People in your family
      • Traditions in your family
      • Language(s) your family speaks
      • Culture(s) your family belongs to
      • Things your
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  • Hand Tracing

    Your Child Will Learn

    The shape of our hands can be used to make creative art

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Use a pencil to trace your child’s hands on paper 
    2. Ask your child what shapes and figures can they create
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