Category: No Mess
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More or Less?
Your Child Will Learn
Comparing the amounts of two groups of objects
Here’s What to Do
- Wherever you are (home, playground, bus, store, etc.), direct your child’s attention to compare groups of objects. Try to find groups with 5 items
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Fast and Slow Music
Your Child Will Learn
That music has different speeds (tempos)
Here’s What to Do
- Play some music, perhaps while in the car. Hand your child a tissue and tell them to wave the tissue to the speed of the music.
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I Know That Story
Your Child Will Learn
To enjoy reading familiar books with adults.
Here’s What to Do
- Choose one of your child’s favorite books, ideally one with repeating phrases.
- Prompt your child to join you when you read the repetitive phrases on
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Making Connections
Your Child Will Learn
How to connect what they read in books to real-life experiences.
Here’s What to Do
- Invite your child to read with you and let them choose the book.
- While reading, connect this story to your own
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Picture Walk Read-Aloud
Your Child Will Learn
How to use a book’s pictures to tell a story.
Here’s What to Do
- Choose a picture book that tells a story (ideally one your child hasn’t read before or doesn’t know very well).
- Point to
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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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Letters on the Road
Your Child Will Learn
To identify uppercase and lowercase letters
Here’s What to Do
- While on a long drive or bus ride, ask your child to identify uppercase and lowercase letters on road and traffic signs throughout your journey. (Or,
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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