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

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, animals, parts of things (i.e. wheel on car), colors, sizes, patterns, quantity.

*This is where you can use the items gathered during your park trip or neighborhood walk.

1. Painting with Cars: Present your child with a variety of cars, paint, and paper or a cardboard box. Allow your child to explore the parts of the vehicles and paint with the various parts of the vehicle, mainly the wheels. Assist your child to pick up and use pincer grasp dip the cars, roll them and tilt the board so the cars go down a "hill". Remember to label colors, count and ask questions.

2. Transportation Sorting Graph: Use vehicle toys or images from air, land, and water, paper and marker/ crayon- create a simple chart for your child to sort items and count. Focus and receptive/ expressive identification, parts of vehicles that are similar or different and counting with 1:1 correspondence. Ask questions throughout the activity, including immediate recall/ retell (i.e. where did you just put the boat?); model language as needed using 1-2 words at a time.

3. Ramp Races: Using cardboard or a recycled box, paint, tape and vehicle toys, engage your child in an art activity where they can explore the movement of vehicles and colors. Allow your child to experiment with placing the ramp in various areas of the house, with differing heights. Request your child to use specific vehicles or colors- make note if they are able to label and correctly identify colors and vehicle (i.e ambulance, yellow bus, taxi) and remember to narrate their actions and ask questions!

4. Name/ Letter Garage: Create a letter "garage" for your child to park their vehicles with corresponding letters of their name; remember to label letters with your child and have them point to and label the letters for you. Consider adding a photo of your child's face and talk about the beginning letter of their name. Model labels for colors and letters as needed, ask questions such as "What letter comes first/ next?"

5. Shape Vehicles: Using a variety of paper shape cut outs and templates below, assist your child to create vehicles. During the activity, have your child identify colors, shapes and vehicles; model vehicle sounds, compare sizes, similarities and differences.

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 labels, body parts, sounds, shapes, verbs, colors, quantity).

Use this as an opportunity to talk about vehicles, where we see them in the neighborhood, how and when we use vehicles. Discuss colors, shapes, quantity, and patterns. Pause the books at any time to answer questions, ASK questions, and point out important information. At the end of the book, talk about it some more. Ask WH questions (ie WHAT did we just read?/ WHAT did you see?)

Interested in reading some more? Check this out: Joan Snow PreK Library

Videos of the Week/ Music and Movement

When exploring these videos, use this as an opportunity to talk with your child about parts of their bodies and the function of body parts (ie touch/ feel with hands/ feet), EMOTIONS and following directions and imitations.

I've included some videos that target daily living skills; review these videos and talk about your daily routines, allow your child to practice and remember to narrate and model.

It's important to engage with your child, narrate videos and PAUSE video if you need to. Have your child perform emotions and movements with their bodies. Write down any reactions or words and share with us!

The goal here is to HAVE FUN! Making mistake and having a do-over is OKAY, it's all part of the learning process!

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