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Learn About Letters Together: Target Letter (“Ss”) and Word (sound) #1
Use the “Target Letter and Word” routine to introduce the letter “Ss” and the word sound.
Learn About Letters Together: Target Letter (“Ss”) and Word (sound) #2
Review the letter “Ss” and the word sound. Have children make an “S” shape with their body.
Learn About Letters Together: Target Letter (“Uu”) and Word (up) #1
Use the Target Letter and Word Routine to introduce children to the letter “Uu” and the word up.
Learn About Letters Together: Target Letter (“Uu”) and Word (up) #2
Use the Target Letter and Word Routine to introduce children to the letter “Uu” and the word up.
Learn About Letters Together: Target Letter (“Ww”) and Word (water)
Use the Target Letter and Word Routine to introduce children to the letter “Ww” and the word water.
Learn About Letters Together: Target Letter (“Zz”) and Word (zoom)
Use the Target Letter and Word Routine to introduce children to the letter “Zz” and the word zoom.
Learn About Letters Together: Target Letters (“Dd,” “Ee”) and Words (down, engine)
Reinforce recognition of the letters “Dd” and “Ee” and the words down and engine by having children hunt for them in the room.
Learn About Sounds Together: Letter Sound (/e/)
Have children listen for words that begin with the letter sound /e/. Encourage children to generate words.
Let’s Laugh
Ask family members to share what makes their baby laugh. Make a book of “laughing baby” ideas and share it with families and colleagues.
Make Your Mark
Have babies explore different materials with their hands, feet, fingers, and toes to help them exercise their pre-writing muscles.
Measuring Tools
Introduce math tools to toddlers and let them explore measuring, pouring, filling, and emptying one material into another.
More . . . More . . . Too Many
Hand a baby more objects than she can hold to help a baby develop a strong sense of numbers. Play the game as you use lots of math vocabulary—here’s one toy, here’s one more, let’s count how many, and so on.
Play and Explore
Guide a baby’s exploration—or just follow her lead—as she learns about her world with her eyes, ears, hands, mouths, and actions.
Play Pretend
Offer a collection of used clothes and props so children can pretend to be a family member, a favorite story character, and more.
Play Together: Say It with Dance
Show children pictures of faces showing different emotions. Ask children to move in a way that shows that emotion.
Play Together: “Show Us What Your Instrument Can Do”
Gather children with their rubber-band instruments. Sing the song, “Show Us What Your Instrument Can Do” and have children demonstrate making sounds.
Read Together: Educator’s Choice, Unit 9, Week 3
Read aloud a nonfiction or fiction book about floating and sinking.
Read Together: Houses and Homes
Read Houses and Homes by Ann Morris. Focus on the materials used to build houses and how the materials vary because of where people live in the world.
Read Together: Max Found Two Sticks #2
Reread Max Found Two Sticks by Jerry Pinkney, and have children tap out some of the rhythms Max makes on their thighs.
Read Together: Who Sank the Boat? #2
Reread the book. Focus children on how the animals balance the boat.