*Count the letters in your child’s name and find objects in your house or when driving in the car that start with your child’s name. Your child’s name is the most important word they know at this age. They can quickly make connections between their names and other words.
*Make reading a story at bedtime an every night habit. Children learn to read by reading just as they learn to talk by talking.
*When reading with your child, use your finger to point to the words and ask them where to start or where your finger needs to go so that you can work on the skill of left to right progression. You can also go on a letter or word hunt and find the letters or words we have been working on .
*Review the animated alphabet letters and their actions/sounds.
*Use the Easy Reader poems to help with reading skills. I will begin to send them home more frequently. There are some great ideas that you can when reading other books.
*Build shapes and structures with objects within your home. Example: miniature marshmellows and toothpicks. Encourage discussion about the shapes: Which shape used the most marshmellows? Does each shape have more toothpicks than marshmallows? How many triangles or rectangles did you make?
*Plan and prepare a shape snack together. Cut cheese into triangles, choose crackers that are squares and circles. Have fun with it!!!
*We love patterns! Patterns can be made with food. Some various shaped or colored cereals and crackers work well for making patterns. If the cereal has holes, you can string a cereal pattern on yarn and make an edible necklace or bracelet.
*Sort grocery items into groups. Talk about why you grouped certain items together. Can you think of a different way?
*Setting the table is good practice of one to one correspondence or “matching”. “How many people are eating?” Count the right number of plates, napkins, silverward, and glasses for each one. |
