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  • Letter Blend Bingo

    Your Child Will Learn

    Words have letter blends in the beginning, middle, or end of them

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Use the Letter Blend Bingo page and word cards to play this game
    2. Explain to your child that you will
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  • Letter Hide & Seek

    Your Child Will Learn

    To identify letter sounds in the middle of words.

    Here’s What to Do

    1.  Think of familiar 3-letter words with a vowel in the middle. Examples: cup, kid, top, nap, bus, pen, fox, get, cat, dog, etc.
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  • My Alphabet Book

    Your Child Will Learn

    To recognize most letters and know the sounds they make.

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Create a 27-page booklet with standard-size paper. Write “My Alphabet Book” on the cover, and write the capital and lowercase letters at
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  • My Voice Playlist

    Your Child Will Learn

    To vary tone and volume when communicating in different contexts.

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Ask your child to think of a song, nursery rhyme, or story they know really well. Tell them you’re going to record
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  • Make-Your-Own Concentration Game

    Your Child Will Learn

    Use working memory to match images that are the same

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Ask your child to create multiple sets of 2 drawings that are the same image on small squares of paper (we suggest
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  • Child Friendly Yoga

    Your Child Will Learn

    A way to calm and stretch their bodies 

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Find an open space with room to move.
    2. Do the Spaghetti Test: wiggle your child’s arms and legs to make sure they’re relaxed, like
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  • Relax My Body

    Your Child Will Learn

    A relaxation technique to prepare for sleep

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Ask your child to make their toes still, and say “Goodnight toes!”
    2. Continue naming body parts in order: toes, feet, legs and all the way
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  • Find the Food Groups

    Your Child Will Learn

    An introduction to food groups

    Here’s What to Do

    1. At the grocery store, talk about healthy food groups as you pass through different parts of the grocery store. Some of the major healthy food groups:
      1. Carbohydrates
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  • Robot Directions

    Your Child Will Learn

    Positional words and spatial awareness

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Choose a goal that you will direct your child, “the robot,” to reach.
    2. Give your child a series of directions to help them get to the goal.
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  • Calm Corner

    Your Child Will Learn

    Strategies to help calm big emotions

    Here’s What to Do

    1. With your child(ren), brainstorm some actions that help them calm down when they’re upset. Some ideas:
      1. Rainbow breath (arms up on the inhale, down on the
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