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Help your child write a poem about your family. Be creative. Start each line with a letter from the word "family." Encourage the child to draw a picture to go with it. |
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Election Day Have a "Family Election." Read two books together. Have each person vote for his or her favorite book. Count up the votes. Which book wins? |
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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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Help your child make a puzzle. Cut up a pretty card or magazine cover in large pieces. Encourage your child to put the picture back together. |
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Veterans' Day |
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Cut straws into different lengths. Let your child line them up from shortest to longest. |
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Have a Recycling Day. Set aside everything that your family uses today that can be recycled. Talk about why recycling is a good idea. Take the things to a recycling bin. |
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Put on a family play. Dress up in costumes and act out a simple story. Pop popcorn for a snack afterwards. |
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Every time your child has to climb up or down stairs today, count out loud with the child each step he or she takes. |
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Print out two sets of alphabet letters: one upper case (capitals), one lower case (small letters). Cut the letters out, mix them up and play a match-up game with your child (A-a, B-b, C-c).
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Thanksgiving Day At dinner, have each person mention one thing he or she is thankful for. |
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Point out to children the printed words at home, child care, and in the community.
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Visit the local public library with your child. Pick out books that have lots of colorful pictures or photographs and few words. Let your child look at the pictures and tell you what he or she thinks is happening in the story. |
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Have fun reading or telling stories with your child. A child who looks at books and hears stories read, learns that words and ideas can be written down, and that marks on paper have meaning. Show your child that there are things to read everywhere. Make a game of finding things with words on them (like soup cans, cereal boxes, comics). This will help your child to see how important it is to be able to read. |
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Make up hand movements to go with the words. Let your child follow along.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
Star light, star bright. |
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Materials:
Trace your child's hand on the paper. Help your child make a "turkey" by coloring the fingers different colors for features. Add feet, eyes, and a beak. Print your child's name in the center of the turkey. Let the child decorate around the outside edge of the paper. Each time you make a new "turkey" the child can print another name of family or friends, until there are enough turkeys to use at your Thanksgiving meal.
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