Early Head Start Homework

Physical

Sliding and Rolling Toys

1. Find a toy with wheels that I can slide back and forth, like a toy car or a push toy. I might especially like toys that make sounds when they move.
   
2. Sit with me on the floor. Show me how to push and slide a toy back and forth, and see if I'll copy your movements.
   
• At this age, I'll probably make a motion that's more like "wiping" back and forth, rather than pushing a car to make it go across the floor.
  
3. Help me slide my toys on different surfaces to see and hear the differences. For example:
   
• Roll my car on the bumpy carpet
  
• Roll my car on the smooth tile
  

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Language & Literacy

My First Conversations

1. At quiet times throughout the day (feeding, dressing, playing, or bathing), help me learn how to have a conversation!
   
2. When I make a sound or babble, imitate my sound. Then pause and wait for me to make another sound in the 'conversation.'
   
3. You can also respond to my sounds or babbling with sentences.
   
4. Keep the conversation going- continue a few rounds of taking turns making sounds back-and-forth.

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Language & Literacy

Noticing Details in Pictures

1. Choose a familiar picture book with large pictures and not too many details in the illustrations.
   
2. On each page, help me find interesting or funny details like apples on an apple tree or sunglasses on a cow. If there is a character or object that repeats throughout the book, ask me to find it on each page.
   
3. Ask me questions about the pictures as we read.
   
4. Repeat whenever we read together!

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Approaches to Learning

Snacks in a Bottle

1. Let me watch you put a piece of cereal or other small snack into a small clear container with a narrow opening (like a spice bottle).
   
2. Hand me the bottle to let me try to get the snack out.
   
3. If I try lots of experiments but can’t get the snack, show me how to turn the container over. Then let me try again.
   
4. Let me practice turning over containers in other play- like using water in a trial-size shampoo bottle to wash a doll’s hair, or putting sand in a spice shaker during sand play.

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