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Set a red, a yellow, and a green apple on the table. Ask your child to name the colors. Cut the apples open and talk about how they have different colors on the outside, but are the same on the inside. Just like people. Enjoy your snack! |
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Different people celebrate different holidays. Talk about your child's favorite holiday. What does the holiday celebrate? |
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Plan "TV Blackout" night. Instead of watching TV, read aloud, play games, do a puzzle or sing songs with your child. |
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Play the "colored food" game. How many foods can your child think of that are red? green? yellow? orange? What "color" foods did your child eat today? |
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Make a Family Collage. Let your child cut pictures out of a magazine of things the child does with your family. Glue them on a piece of paper with "My Family" written on top. |
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Beethoven's Birthday Play music and dance with your child. Let the child use pots, pans, and spoons to create sounds. |
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Help your child memorize his or her full name and address. Talk about where the name came from and where your child was born. If you have a map, find the city you live in now and the places different people in your family were born. |
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First Day of Winter |
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Hanukkah begins at sundown |
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Watch a children's movie as a family. Talk about what makes the characters in the movie different from each other.
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Christmas
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Give your child an assortment of beans, buttons, or small stones to be sorted by color, size, or shape. When the sorting is finished, the child can glue the objects onto a card and give it to someone special. |
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Draw a picture of a clock. Point to the numbers and let your child tell you what the number is. Talk about what the child does at different times of the day or night. |
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Show children how you read and write every day to have fun and to get things done.
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Have fun reading or telling stories with your child. The best way for your child to learn to love reading and books is to have a reading experience each day. Reading can be done anywhere -- in a car, a fast-food restaurant, a bus, an office, in the park, or at home. Keep books or other reading material handy, so it's always an easy activity to choose. |
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Make up hand motions to go with the words.
Over the river and through the woods, to Grandmother's house we go |
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Visit the local public library with your child. Try to find books about a variety of holidays and traditions that are written for children. Find out if there are any special displays of activities planned for children this month that you could attend with your child. |
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Materials:
Measure around the top of your child's head. Cut a piece of paper to fit. Cut the bottom straight and the top in points to look like a crown. Let you child decorate the crown with craft items. Have the child trace or print his or her name on the back of the crown and then attach the ends. Let the child wear the crown for the day. What would he/she do as King/Queen?
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