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Play music and dance with your child. Let your child use pots, pans, and spoons to create sounds. |
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Independence Day Find a place to safely watch a fireworks display with your child. Talk about why you are proud to be an American. |
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Take a "counting" walk. Pick something to count (cars, signs, flowers, birds, bikes) and as you walk, keep track of how many you see. |
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Play "Pat-a-Cake" with your child. Help your child count how many fingers there are on each hand. |
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Go for a reading picnic under the stars. Take a flashlight, a snack, and a few favorite books to read outside. Look for pictures that stars make in the sky. |
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Sing "Old McDonald Had a Farm" with your child. Take turns making the animal sounds. |
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Watch a musical on TV with your child. Talk about what your child's favorite part was. Try to talk by singing. |
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Let your child help with a household chore today, setting the table, emptying the trash, putting away the toys, or feeding a pet. When the work is done, thank your child for helping. |
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Take your child outside with a bucket of water and a paint brush to "paint" his or her name, and to draw shapes and letters on the sidewalk with the water. |
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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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Go somewhere you can play in the water today -- a pool, a lake, the ocean, or under a sprinkler. |
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Sing a simple song with your child. Count the words that rhyme. Make up a new song of your own using words that rhyme. |
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Teach children songs, poems, and rhymes.
Encourage them to dance, sing, and clap their hands to the music or words.
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Let your child dance while you sing together.
Here we go 'round the mulberry bush,
Repeat using.
This is the way we wash our clothes. |
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Have fun reading or telling stories with your child. Each time you open a book with your child, you take the child on an exciting journey. Open a world of new ideas in books and give your child a great start to learning. Remember, one of the best ways to encourage a love of reading is to have a regular time for sharing books with your child. |
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Read or tell a story. Ask your child to pick out a favorite character and to explain the choice. Using a paper bag, crayons, magic markers, glue, construction paper or other materials, make a puppet of that character. Help your child retell the story using the puppet. Each week a new "character" can be created. By the end of the month you will have a collection of puppets your child can use to make up his or her own stories!
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Visit the local public library with your child, take him or her to the children's section, and let your child pick out books to take home, read, and return during the next visit. |
