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Learning Development Tools to Practice With Your Child

Give Me a Chance To....

Literacy & Language Development

Give me a chance to...

Identify and Name Some Letters

  • Sing the ABC song
  • Play with letter magnets or puzzles
  • Look for letters in children's books

Start to Write

  • Recognize and write my name
  • Pretend to write a list, note, card, etc.

Rhyme

  • Learn a rhyming song i.e. Jack and Jill, Hickory Dickory
    Dock, Itsy Bitsy Spider
  • Listen to rhyming books i.e. Dr. Seuss, Brown Bear,
    Pete the Cat

Treat and Use Books Correctly

  • Hold a book and turn pages from left to right
  • Pretend to read the book and/or read the pictures
  • Talk about and ask questions about a book
  • Visit the library (school or public library, story time
    sessions

Communicate with Others

  • Greet others appropriately
  • Have a back and forth conversation
  • Follow verbal directions with two or three steps
  • Express

Mathematics Development

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1-1 Correspondence up to 10

  • Count out loud
  • Touch and count objects

Basic Shapes and Colors Identification

  • Name a circle, square, triangle and rectangle
  • Find a circle, square, triangle and rectangle
  • Name the colors: red, orange, yellow, blue, green, purple, black, white, brown
  • Find the colors: red, orange, yellow, blue, green, purple, black, white, brown

Sorting Collections by Attributes (Color, Shape, Size Purpose) and Number Attributes

  • Sort familiar objects (toys, balls, blocks, Legos, dishes, etc.) by color and size
  • Show you small groups of up to six items
  • Roll a dice and hand you that number of items

Physical Development

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Daily Living Skills

  • Dress myself
  • Open snacks and serve myself
  • Use the bathroom independently
  • Blow my nose and wash my hands

Fine Motor and Hand Strength

  • Use school tools like pencils, crayons, scissors, glue and tape
  • Pull, push, grab, kneed, pound, stretch, pinch, and squish

Gross Motor/Body Strength and Balance

  • Climb, run, jump, crawl, swing, throw, kick and bounce
  • Build and dig

Social Emotional Development

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Display Independence

  • Follow daily routines and expectations
  • Try new and challenging things
  • Ask for help
  • Make mistakes and get messy

Express Feelings

  • Feel and name my feelings
  • Struggle
  • Talk about feelings (yours, mine, and others
  • Break, take a break and move forward when I have strong feelings

Build Relationships

  • Meet people my own age
  • Trust other adults
  • Solve problems with others (with support as needed)

Build Flexible Thinking

  • Hear "no" and not get what I want
  • Problem solve
  • Share my ideas

Cognitive
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Sustain Focus and Interest in Lessons and Activities

  • Listen to a story and ask questions
  • Clean up my own messes
  • Complete a task from start to finish
  • Talk about how the world works

Try More Thank One Way to Solve a Problem

  • Make mistakes and fix them
  • Express what I need
  • Share my ideas, and accept others' ideas
  • Wait and take turns

Role Play Live Experiences Through Dramatic Play, Art and Construction Projects

  • Dress up and pretend to be something/someone else
  • Build my own creations
  • Draw, color, cut and create