Head Start Homework
This Week
Use these activities to learn with your child every day!
Language & Literacy
Bedtime Story Cards
- Work together to create about 20 "story cards" on index cards (or paper). You can make them all at once, or spread it out over several days and weeks.
- Cut out pictures from magazines and glue them onto the cards, or draw your own drawings. Try to include a mixture of pictures of people, animals, places, and objects.
- Once you have several cards, use them nightly to make up stories together!
Math
Counting Coins
- Start with a pile of 10-20 coins (or other small objects) and ask your child to put some in each bag.
- Ask your child to describe which bag they think has more and less, and to estimate how many coins are in each bag.
- Check your child’s answer by drawing a 1-10 number line on a piece of paper. Show your child how to place one coin on each number to count the coins from the first bag.
- Ask your child to place the coins from the second bag on the number line, counting as they go. Compare the amounts from each bag.
Approaches to Learning
Do This Then That!
- Create three-step directions for your child to follow; get silly and have fun with this!
- Preface each command with “do this…then that…then that...” as you model the multi-step directions. Example: Say “do this” while tapping your nose and say “then that” while marching in place and "then that" when spinning in a circle.
- Try not to repeat the directions; instead encourage your child to remember all three steps on their own.
- If your child is successfully remembering 3-step directions, try 4-step directions (do this, then that, then that, then that).
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Child Friendly Yoga
Spotlight on:
P - PAUSE
E - ENGAGE
E - ENCOURAGE
R - REFLECT
This week's focus: