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Cut out a food pyramid from the side of a cereal box or other food. Talk about the different food groups. Ask your child to name a favorite food and what food group it belongs to. |
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Print the letters in your child's name. Ask him or her to name three words that begin with each letter of the name. |
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Play "Peek-a-Boo" with your child, hiding behind a favorite book. Finish your game by reading the story. |
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Help your child cut pictures of healthy foods out of a magazine. Have the child glue the pictures on paper plates. Make a mobile by hanging the plates with yarn to a clothes hanger. |
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Flag Day
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Father's Day |
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Help your child make a book for someone special, drawing pictures showing what your child likes about this person. Write down what the pictures are about. Share it with the special person. |
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Have your child look in a mirror and name the features on his or her face. Ask your child what each part does, and whether the child has one or two of each part named. |
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First Day of Summer |
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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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Have a pretend phone conversation with your child, asking what your child did yesterday, is doing today, and wants to do tomorrow. |
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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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Encourage children to do things for themselves when they are ready. Let them feed and dress themselves, and cleanup after themselves even if these tasks take more time and are not done perfectly.
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Have fun reading or telling stories with your child. Ask other friends or family members to share favorite stories with your child. Stories about the child's own history or culture are especially exciting. Ask the librarian to help you pick out books that have pictures and stories about people with the same ethnic backgrounds as your child. |
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Visit the local public library with your child. Be a role model by checking out books that you would enjoy reading. When you get home, set aside a special time to read with your child. |
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Help your child make a colorful watermelon fan to keep cool all summer!
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Color or paint a one inch circle of green around the edge of a paper plate. Leaving a small ring of white next to the green, color the inside of the plate red. When the paint is dry, draw black seeds in the red center, or glue on real watermelon seeds. Glue a popsicle stick on the back of the plate and use as a fan.
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Touch the body parts named as you sing the words. Repeat the rhyme over and over, going faster each time.
Head, shoulders,
Eyes and nose and ears and mouth |
