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Colors and Clothes
As your child gets dressed in the morning, talk about the colors in his clothes and let him choose a color to wear.
Community Helpers
Discuss community helpers and vehicles they use to do their job. Focus on people who take care of parks and community gardens. Have children build a neighborhood park or community garden with roads for vehicles used to maintain the area.
Comparing Weight
Demonstrate how to use the balance or homemade scale. Let children compare objects and guess which one is heavier.
Connecting Cube Train Races
Have children build connecting-cube trains to send down ramps, and use nonstandard measuring tools to mark how far the trains travel.
Construction Site
Have children work in small groups to pretend that they are builders at a construction site. Remind them the importance of safety as they work together to build a structure.
Construction Zone
Let children role-play construction workers remodeling the Pretend and Play Center.
Count the Veggies
Have children write a shopping list. Have them count the number of objects they “buy” at the grocery store in the Block Center.
Countdown to Zero
Display the number chart that includes the number zero. Using your fingers and objects, explain what zero represents in relation to other numbers like one and two.
Dance Studio
Have children to pretend they are taking dancing lessons. Encourage them to experiment with different kinds of dance movement.
Different Material—Different Drying Time
Children choose items of different materials and determine which absorbs more water and which dries faster.
Disappearing Objects Show
Invite children to put on their own magic show. Help them make connections to the book Abiyoyo.
Divvy Up!
Show children how to divvy up or divide food as a character in their read-aloud.
Does It Float?
Have children test objects to see if they will float or sink. Instruct children to place the objects in the “sink” or “float” half of a poster board based on what happened.
Down the Slide
Test how different materials can make your child move down a slide faster, slower, or not at all.
Draw and Write Together: A Story Map
Create a story map to tell the sequence of the story Samantha on a Roll by Linda Ashman.
Draw and Write Together: Abiyoyo the Giant
Have children dictate or write words that describe how they think the giant Abiyoyo sounds when he sings, talks, or walks.
Draw and Write Together: About My Family
Make a list with children of different things they like to do with their families.
Draw and Write Together: Animal Sound Parade
Show magazine pictures of animals to children. Ask them to name the animals, then sort the sounds each make on a two-column chart titled “Loud/Soft.”
Draw and Write Together: Boat Characters
Have each child choose a boat character in Toy Boat and continue the story.
Draw and Write Together: Building Riddles
Invite children to create riddles that describe materials and tools.