Gentle reminder to complete Daily Attendance and Parent Activity Review

Baby Unit Week 1

Essential Question: What are babies?

Focus Question: What do human babies need?

Story Time: Scroll down for the Books of the Week

Choose one book each day to focus on

Scroll down for the Books of the Week. Pause during the book reading to discuss what you see and ask your child to identify items either by labeling or pointing. Keep a list of what they were able to identify and share it with us!

After reading the books/watching the videos, talk with your child about what you read/ saw/ heard. Model sounds and actions that you both learned about. You may read the same stories over again and pay attention to parts your child enjoyed.

Literacy Activity:

Vocabulary words to target this week: baby, bib, bottle, cry, sleep, small

EXAGGERATE the target letters below and pair those sounds with the vocabulary words

(Focus Letters: B, C, S)

*Feel free to add your own words, the key is consistency. KEEP LANGUAGE GOING ALL DAY*

Choose an activity to work on over a couple of days or choose one activity per day

Check out some activities below. Have your child identify items by point or label; try to have your child identify by function of object OR matching (ie find what baby drinks/ if baby is hungry, what do they need?). Experiment with what your child shows the most interest in. Target fine motor skills, following directions and communication.

Try setting up a play area where you and your child can explore play with dolls. Feed and change the doll, sing the baby a lullaby until baby is asleep. Maybe you're beginning to potty train? Have your child let the baby doll use the potty and refer to "Resources" link at the bottom of the page for more information.

CLICK HERE for printout

CLICK HERE for pretend play set up

TIP: Try to use items and babies that your child is familiar with and will identify most with.

REMEMBER: KEEP ON TALKING, CONSTANT LANGUAGE

STEAM:

Science/ Technology/ Engineering/ Art/ Math/ Science

Choose an activity to work on over a couple of days or choose one activity per day

The goal here is to have your child explore and HAVE FUN! Messes are part of the learning process!

Examples of questions to ask:

What happens when ___? How do you think that works? How could you change that?

What does that remind you of? What would happen if ___? Tell me more.

*Remember to narrate play and ask questions; label objects, body parts, baby accessories (ie bottle, blanket, diaper), be creative!

SENSORY BIN variety: Invite your child to play with the materials and practice washing and changing baby. Talk about body parts, clean/ dirty, wet/ dry, big/ little. *Practice: scooping/ pouring, turn taking, following directions and labeling.
Bottle Painting: *BE SURE THEY DO NOT DRINK FROM THE BOTTLE*

Add some paint to water and pour into a baby bottle. Assist your child to apply the paint to paper. Fade assistance BUT monitor your child during the activity to be sure they engage with materials appropriately.

Toy Baby Rattles: Provide recycled materials and beans or seeds for our child to use when creating their own baby rattles. Use the word rattle frequently throughout this activity to help your child learn the word and model shaking the rattle and giving it to the doll during pretend play. Allow your child to experiment with how they structure the rattle as well as how to decorate the rattle, allow them to be creative! This will help with fine motor, attending and problem solving. You can also count the items and label colors.
Make Baby Food: Talk with your child about what types of food they think babies eat and why. Engage your child in preparing a variety of baby food (check out the link below). Once the foods are done, assist your child to use forks, spoons, straws, open cups to feed themselves. Work on having them hold their utensils the right way, scoop and bring to their mouth without spilling. *Remember to narrate foods and actions throughout the activity, and reinforce when successful
Crawling Obstacle Course: * Ensure that the ground under the obstacle course is safe and clear of objects.*

Create an obstacle course for your child and encourage them to crawl through the course as a baby might. After crawling throughout the course, have them experiment with different ways to move through (ie jumping, running). Try giving them directions/ actions to follow. Which did they like better? Why?

Lullabies: After listening to some lullabies with the your child, encourage them to sing along and engage in a calming art activity. Accept all attempts children make at singing in their own words.

**Make a video OR audio recording** You can share with us or hold onto it as a keepsake for you and your family

C91 Remote Learning - Resources

CLICK HERE for Sensory Bin ideas

4. 11 Simple Baby Food Recipes

2. CLICK HERE for Bottle Painting

5. 8 DIY Crawling Obstacle Courses

3. How to make a Toy Baby Rattle

6. Spotify Popular Lullabies

Books of the Week

Once finished with the book, go through it again and PAUSE video to get a better look at pictures; assist your child to identify pictures (focus on body parts, verbs, colors, quantity and actions). You can even perform or model actions and ask your child to imitate. When counting, assist your child (if needed) to form a point and touch each item they're counting, then ask "how many".

Invite your child to think of other words that start with the /C/ sound. Also, model other things babies might say such as /Dah/ Mah/ Gah/. Don't be afraid to sound silly and REMEMBER TO KEEP ON TALKING. CONSISTENCY IS KEY!

Ten Tiny Tickles - Ten Tiny Babies

My "c" Book by Jane Belk Moncure

Baby at the Farm

Videos of the Week and Music/ Movement

When exploring these videos, use this as an opportunity to talk with your child about babies and what they need. You can also model labels and actions (ie show me hugging/ I see baby hugging). See if your child can point to OR label actions or items using one or more words (ie I see baby). See if your child can imitate your actions or what they see in the video.

I added a musical/ dance video where your child can use the rattles they made or the maracas from last week- Check out the tutorials to make your own instruments. Look at the "Resources" page to listen to some of C91's favorite songs, or make your own up!

When learning about babies, it's important we can identify body parts and function of body parts. Engage in some music and movement activities below and see if your child can identify body parts on themselves, you and their toys. As a challenge, have them label body parts and their functions (ie see with eyes, hear with ears).

Play it Right: Use the RATTLES you made