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Animal Homes

Explore the different types of homes animals live in. Then help your child plan and build a house for a favorite animal.

Building Site

Visit a construction site and talk with your child about the tools and machines used by construction workers.

Explore Together (outdoors): Building Shapes

Go outdoors and look for shapes in neighborhood houses and buildings. Have children draw shapes they find and dictate or write what part of the building the shape was found.  

Explore Together (outdoors): Hunt for Materials

Review materials used in building houses in the book Houses and Homes. Go outside and look at different materials used in neighborhood buildings.

Learn About Letters Together: Tiptoe on “T”

Have children tiptoe along a large uppercase “T” on the floor.

Neighborhood Houses and Buildings

Take a walk with your child and talk about different shapes, textures, and materials you notice on the houses and buildings.

Play Together: Huff and Puff Tag

Play this game of tag and have “the wolf” chase after the little pigs. The game ends when all the little pigs have been tagged.

Play Together: Pig, Pig, Wolf!

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

Sing Together: “Here We Go Round the Alphabet”

Write the uppercase alphabet letters on the ground in a circle going clockwise. Sing the song and have children walk around the circle.

Talk Together: Structures to Build

Take children outside to choose a structure they would like to build a representation of.

Word Play: Letter (“Bb”) Bounce

Make the letter “Bb” on the floor with chalk or tape. Have children follow the letter shape and bounce along the letter “Bb.”   

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