Head Start Homework
This Week
Use these activities to learn with your child every day!
Language & Literacy
May I Take Your Order, Please?
- Invite your child to play a restaurant game at the beginning of dinner. They'll be the server, and they need to take everyone's drink orders.
- In a notebook, help your child draw pictures of two drink choices (like: water and milk).
- Have your child ask what each person wants to drink, and mark an X on their pad next to the drink.
- See if your child can report everyone's orders back to you. Let your child help serve the drinks if possible.
Math
Adding Up Snacks
- Put 5 small pieces of food (like cereal) on a plate. Count with your child.
- Ask your child: "How many more do you need to add up to 10?"
- Check their answer. Add [amount child answered] to the plate and count again. Are there 10 total?
- Repeat, starting with different amounts of food between 1-9. When you're done playing, eat your snack!
Health & Wellness
Silly Salad Face
- Invite your child to make a Silly Salad Face. Ask them what fruits and vegetables they'd like to use to make a face. Choose from the examples below or whatever else you have on hand:
- Fruits: Oranges, bananas, blueberries, apple sticks, raisins, grape halves, mango slices
- Vegetables: Cucumber, shredded carrot, lettuce leaves, cherry tomato halves, bell pepper strips
- Wash the fruits and veggies. Show your child how you cut them into smaller pieces they can use to make a face.
- Ask your child to use the ingredients to make a funny face on a plate. Let them rearrange the face as many times as they'd like.
- Eat your silly salad snack! If you'd like, serve salad dressing or yogurt as a dip on the side.
Looking for more?
Try out this Science activity.
Build-A-Track
Try out this Approaches to Learning activity.
Stop, Breathe, Focus, Hop
Spotlight on:
P - PAUSE
E - ENGAGE
E - ENCOURAGE
R - REFLECT
This week's focus: