Category: Mess Level

  • Animal Face Shapes

    Your Child Will Learn

    Drawing shapes and noticing how objects can be broken down into smaller shapes

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Ask your child to choose an animal’s face to draw (some ideas: dog, cat, pig, rabbit, koala).
    2. Have your
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  • Shape Bingo

    Your Child Will Learn

    Recognizing simple shapes in the real world

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Print out the bingo card PDF or draw the bingo card on a piece of paper. If playing with an older sibling, either make them
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  • Shape Hunt

    Your Child Will Learn

    Drawing and recognizing complex shapes

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Before you head outside, print out or draw a shape chart that looks like the example chart. Ask your child to practice drawing each of the shapes
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  • Shape Walk

    Your Child Will Learn

    Shape names and characteristics

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Head outside with your child for a walk.
    2. Point out some objects and ask your child to name what shape they are. Start with things that are squares,
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  • Navigation Numbers

    Your Child Will Learn

    Recognizing written numerals 0-9

    Here’s What to Do

    1. As you go about your day, point out numbers that help you travel from place to place (like: bus or train numbers, building numbers, or street names).
    2. Ask
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  • Counting Mix Up

    Your Child Will Learn

    Counting up to 10 with one-to-one correspondence, even when the items being counted look different

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Gather 10 small household objects to count (examples: hair clips, blocks, toothpicks). Place them on a surface
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  • Step Counting

    Check out Acelero Learning families trying this PEER activity at home!

    Step Counting with the Espinoza‘s

    Malikk’s Great Step Adventure

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to count 5 objects with one-to-one correspondence (counting each object in a set …

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  • Count on Me

    Your Child Will Learn

    Introduction to counting with one-to-one correspondence

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Count your baby’s fingers and toes, touching them one at a time while counting out loud.
    2. Kiss or tickle your baby’s ears, nose, bellybutton, elbows, etc.
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  • Clean Up Countdown

    Your Child Will Learn

    Counting backwards from 10-0

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Pick something in your house that needs to be put away (like clothes into a drawer, crayons into a box, dishes into the dishwasher). Try to choose something
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  • Pattern Play

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to complete a complex pattern

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Gather around 15 small objects in 3 different colors or sizes  (like 3 colors of blocks, 3 sizes of paper clips, 3 types of coins)
    2. Arrange
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