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New Year's Day |
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Draw a face on both of your child's index fingers with a washable marker. Let your child retell a favorite story with the "puppet fingers" as the characters. |
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Use an egg carton to teach your child how to sort. Give your child a variety of buttons, candy, or coins and let him or her sort them by color, size, or item. |
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Plan an indoor picnic for dinner. Let your child bring some favorite books to read. |
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Plan a "TV Blackout" night. Instead of watching TV, read aloud or play games with your child. |
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Trace your child's hand on a piece of paper. Ask your child to think of different ways people can be kind to others. Write his or her ideas on each finger of the hand drawing. |
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Martin Luther King, Jr's. Birthday |
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Benjamin Franklin's Birthday Help your child learn to write his or her own name. Print it for your child to trace. Let him or her pretend to write a sign and a very important message. |
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Martin Luther King, Jr's. Birthday Celebrated |
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Help your child name letters of the alphabet in the newspaper headlines or a magazine cover. Cut out and give new letters for your child to keep and learn. |
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Have your child point out all the round-shaped things nearby. Have a round snack of banana slices, crackers, cookies, or tortillas. |
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Mozart's Birthday |
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Print the alphabet on a piece of paper. Point to each letter as you sing the Alphabet Song together. Let your child trace the letters. Pick out the letters used to spell your child's names. |
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Read with your children at a regular time each day and whenever they ask you.
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Place small, safe objects that all start with the same letter (e.g., spoon, soap, straw, sock) in a paper bag. Let your child read into the bag. Without your child peeking, let his or her guess what it is. Talk about what letter all the objects start with. |
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Have fun reading or telling stories with you child. Children love to hear the human voice. Even babies find great comfort in listening to voices. What better way for them to hear you speak than through reading to them! In fact, one of the best ways to encourage a love of reading is to have a regular time for sharing books with your child each day. |
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Follow the motions with your child.
Hands on shoulders, hand on knees,
Touch your shoulders, now your noise.
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Visit the local public library with your child. If you don't already have a library card, apply for one so that you can check out books and magazines (some libraries will even let you check out toys, videos, and tapes). January is a great month to look at books on weather. |
