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Kitchen

Invite children to pretend cook and bake a favorite recipe or a recipe from the book Chicks and Salsa. Then serve it to friends and teach them how to make the recipe.

Learn About Letter Sounds Together: Bag of Sounds (/l/)

Play a sound game to help children listen for and recognize the /l/ sound in the beginning of familiar words.

Let the Show Begin!

Encourage small groups of children to put on their own play of a scene from Oscar and the Bat

Let’s Make Soup

Talk about the soup in The Ugly Vegetable. Have children create a make believe vegetable soup, set a table, and invite friends to taste their “soup.”

My Garden

Children act out planting and tending a garden. Encourage them to use props as they plant and care for their garden.

Off to the Library!

Role-play with children taking a trip to the library.

Play Together: “ABCD Watermelon” (BTL game)

Play a game matching letters of the alphabet.

Play Together: “Hide and Peep” #1 (PEEP game)

Play the game Peep and the Big Wide World “Hide and Peep” and have children remember where the characters hid.

Play Together: Laundry Hat Toss

Have children find hats that go in the laundry and absorb water. Allow them to toss the hats into a laundry basket.

Play Together: Musical Alphabet Chairs

Stop the music to signal children to sit on a chair. Ask each child to identify the letter on his or her chair.

Play Together: Pig, Pig, Wolf!

Play the game “Duck, Duck, Goose” using words pig and wolf.  

Play Together: Sound Detectives

Give children the opportunity to become “sound detectives” by having guess what object makes a sound they hear.

Play Together: Train Time

Have groups act out different characters (trains) from The Little Engine That Could. Find a hill or a low ramp to use as the mountain.

Play Together: Volume Control

Play a game with children where they raise and lower the volume of their voices. Use cardboard remote controls to adjust others’ volumes.

Preparing Dinner

Invite children to make their own version of bee-bim-bop to serve for dinner. Instruct them on how to set a table to serve the meal.

Read Together: A Fruit Is a Suitcase for Seeds #2

Reread the story and focus children on different ways a seed can travel from one place to another.

Recite Together: “Ten Little Monkeys”

Together recite the familiar chant “Ten Little Monkeys” using finger actions to help the children count down from ten.

Retelling: Who Sank the Boat?

Encourage children to use the puppets they made in the Art Center to retell the story.

Road Tunnels

Invite children to build a road and tunnels structure. Explain that some roads go through tunnels sometimes so the roads can go underwater.

Sound Box

Explore and create sounds with your child while using everyday objects.

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