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Plan a "TV Blackout" night. Instead of watching TV, read aloud or play games, do a puzzle, or sing songs with your child. |
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Find several boxes of different sizes. Have your child line them up from smallest to largest. See if the child can stack the boxes without having them fall. |
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Read a story to your child. In the middle of the story, have the child pretend to be the author. Ask how he or she would end the story. |
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Columbus Day This is the day we celebrate the discovery of America. Talk with your child about an imaginary voyage the child would like to take. What would your child like to discover? How would your child get there? |
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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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Make a pumpkin face. Color a paper plate orange. Glue a green scrap of paper to the top for a stem. Let your child color a face on the "pumpkin." Print your child's name on the back of the plate. |
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Sing a song! Teach your child the songs or rhymes you loved as a child. Help your child make up a silly song. |
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Play "Peek-a-Boo" hiding behind your child's favorite book. |
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Halloween
Make up your own silly, funny, or scary story. Ask your child to tell how his or her story can end happily-ever-after. |
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Keep a supply of books and other reading materials where children can readh them. Add new books as children's skills and interests change.
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Have fun reading or telling stories with your child. Children love stories! Whether you read a story or tell a story of your own, your child is learning how to imagine, and how words communicate ideas. The most important thing you can do as you share a story with your child is to make it an enjoyable experience for you both. |
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Read or tell the story of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears." Let your child help make the porridge using the recipe below, or one on a hot cereal box.
Three Bears' Breakfast Porridge
Add salt and raisins to water and boil. Add oatmeal. Stir and cook 5 minutes. When the porridge is "just right," serve with milk, brown sugar, and cinnamon.
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Make up hand motions to follow along with the words of the rhyme.
Itsy Bitsy Spider went up the water spout. |
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Visit the local public library with your child. Find a book or tape and a tape player that can be checked out. Plan a special family time to enjoy listening to the tape together. If you have your own tape recorder, you can record yourself reading the library books so your child can enjoy them later. |
