Category: No Mess

  • Picture Walk

    Your Child Will Learn

    To look at pictures and words in a book, and that reading is fun!

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Choose a board book to read that has only pictures or just a few words. 
    2. Read the title
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  • Wait and Count

    Your Child Will Learn

    A strategy to use when they need to wait

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Invite your child to practice waiting.
    2. Give them a simple counting task to complete when you leave the room (like: counting red things
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  • May I Take Your Order, Please?

    Your Child Will Learn

    To communicate effectively to help others get what they need

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Invite your child to play a restaurant game at the beginning of dinner. They’ll be the server, and they need to take
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  • Let’s Go Shopping

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to find and sort an object that matches an attribute

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Give your child a large bag and invite them to help with a fun cleanup activity.
    2. Pretend you are shopping, and
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  • Grocery List Games

    Your Child Will Learn

    Using vocabulary to share ideas

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Invite your child to help make your grocery list.
    2. Talk about the types of food you eat for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. With your child, determine
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  • Music All Around Us

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to recognize music in the world around us

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Begin in a relatively quiet environment indoors or outside.
    2. Walk around and notice the sounds that you hear (birds chirping, horns honking, faucet
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  • Stop, Breathe, Focus, Hop

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to remember and follow a 4-step sequence

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Tell your child(ren) you’re going to pretend to be a choo-choo train. You’ll be the engine and they’ll be the caboose. 
    2. Practice the moves
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  • Neighborhood Walk and Talk

    Your Child Will Learn

    Different jobs people have in your community

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Take your child on a walk around your neighborhood or a local shopping center. Stop in one or a few local establishments (post office, grocery
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  • Counting Coins

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to estimate amounts and compare “more” and “less”

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Start with a pile of 10-20 coins (or other small objects) and ask your child to put some in two clear bags.
    2. Ask
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  • Build A Community

    Your Child Will Learn

    Communities have a variety of places and spaces for different purposes

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Talk to your child about the community you live in by listing and describing different places and spaces you frequent together
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