Category: Mess Level

  • Big and Small World

    Your Child Will Learn

    Using size vocabulary words to compare two different objects

    Here’s What to Do

    1. On a walk, choose an object to focus on. It should be something there are a lot of (buildings, trees, cars, etc.). Ask
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  • Daily Routine Poster

    Your Child Will Learn

    Vocabulary to talk about different times of the day

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Ask your child to give examples of things that happen every day. Make a list of their answers. (Examples: teeth brushing, getting dressed,
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  • Playground Hide and Seek

    Your Child Will Learn

    Using positional words to understand the location of an object

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Bring a small toy to the playground.
    2. Ask your child to cover their eyes. Hide the toy somewhere on the playground. 
    3. Help
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  • Position Play

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to follow directions with position words

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Find a toy and a box big enough to fit the toy inside
    2. Ask your child to place the toy in and out of the
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  • Let’s Get Dressed

    Your Child Will Learn

    Clothing vocabulary words

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Put out some of your child’s clothing on their bed, a table, or flat surface.
    2. Pick up each clothing item and say its name as your child gets dressed.
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  • Match and Model Letters

    Your Child Will Learn

    To notice how letters are written and re-create letters with clay.

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Select a place with a flat surface. Set out modeling clay, play dough, or air-dry clay (see below for homemade play
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  • Words in Books

    Your Child Will Learn

    Written words in books have meanings that correspond with the pictures

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Choose a book with short sentences and lots of pictures.
    2. While reading the book to your child, ask them questions about
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  • Toy Talk

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to focus attention on someone talking to them

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Select one of your child’s favorite toys, like a stuffed animal or doll.
    2. Move the toy around and narrate what the toy’s doing.
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  • Draw a Memory

    Your Child Will Learn

    To communicate their ideas with pictures and words.

    Here’s What to Do

    1. At the end of the week, ask your child to remember one fun thing that happened that week.
    2. Ask them to draw or paint
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  • Our Word Wall

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to learn new vocabulary words and sort these words into groups

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Choose a place in your home where you can display a collection of words with your child or children; make
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