Mom, Dad, play with your child.
Take out some paints, some paper and help your child discover
colors. Mix colors as you name them. Paint shapes, paint animals
with the shapes.
Take your child to the park. Talk about what you see. Show them
boats in the bay or on the river, lake or creek. Go feed the
ducks.
Go visit a farm and introduce your child to the cows, pigs,
horses,kitties...whatever. Buy some farm produce and go home and
make a salad or cook some veggies.
Bake with your child. Talk about measurement… 1 cup of this or
that, ½ cup of that… 1 tbsp. of brown sugar, 1 tsp. of vanilla.
Make something with cloth. Measure it first…perhaps a little
pocket purse or pouch. Talk about which is heavier…a pencil or a
toothpick, which is more…a drop of water or a cup of water.
Take them to the zoo and come home and make a book of all the
animals you saw together. Find pics of them on the net and print
to place in his/her book.
http://www.cpinternet.com/~sarah/rdr012.html
Make letter cards…practice them with your child. Practice the
sounds as well as the names of the letters. Make number cards
and do the same.
Have library day…go to the library and pick a book to read with
your child. Go to a second hand bookstore and buy some books for
your child. Read the books over and over again. Ask questions
about the story. Have your child retell the story. Have your
child draw the story.
Buy some play money. Talk about pennies, nickels, dimes and
quarters. A penny is 1 cent, a nickel is 5 cents (etc.) Ask how
many pennies are in a nickel. How many in a dime? How many coins
make 12 cents, 13 cents (etc.)?
Review shapes with your child …have a shape of the week,
number/letter of the day, color of the day, shape of the day.
Get a children's magazine and read the stories, do the
activities with your child. Help your child direct a play with
neighborhood friends.
http://www.parentinginformation.org/booksboxes.htm
Hug your child, pray with your child at night, go on walks in
the woods with your child. Go to the pool with your child. Love
them and take time for them. They grow up quickly. My youngest
is going into 10th grade!
Get Your Child Ready for School, From U.S. Dept. of Education:
http://readyweb.crc.uiuc.edu/library/1992/getready/getready.html
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