Would You Rather?Source: Vroom #8
Ask your child questions like, "Would you rather be a bird or a fish? Why?" Have them give you a few reasons from real-life experience like, "I love the water so I want to be a fish!" Then you take a turn answering their questions. Recommended Age: 3-5 year olds Kind: Offline Activity Key Concepts: Scientific Inquiry, Scientific Reasoning Standards: P-SCI 1, P-SCI 2, P-SCI 3, P-SCI-4, P-SCI 6 Bye-Bye Bubbles!Source: Vroom #410
While cleaning up, give your child a soapy sponge and a large container with a little water so they can help wash safe kitchen items. Scrub up lots of bubbles together. When you're ready say, "Bye-bye bubbles!" and show them how to rinse the bubbles away. Encourage them to try it. Recommended Age: 2-3 year olds Kind: Offline Activity Key Concepts: Cause and Effect, Self-Confidence, Independence Standards: IT-C 2, IT-SE 12, IT-ATL 6 Blow, Baby, Blow!Source: Vroom #164
Gently blow on your child's face and hair. Ask them, "Do you feel the wind?" Notice if they seem to like the sensation. If so, blow with long and short breaths. Make your pauses in between long and short, too. How long can you and your baby play? Recommended Age: Birth-2 year olds Kind: Offline Activity Key Concepts: Attention, Focus, Self-Control Standard: IT-ATL 3, IT-ATL 4, IT-ATL 5 Rhyme ZoneSource: Vroom #7 You can play this rhyming game anywhere, anytime. Think of a fun word, then let your child come up with another word that rhymes with it. Take turns and keep going back and forth as long as you can! Plan? Fan? Ran? Recommended Age: 3-5 year olds Kind: Offline Activity Key Concepts: Rhyme Standards: P-LIT 1 I Ain't Gonna Paint No More! Karen Beaumont
Shh What's That?Source: Vroom #232
Do you hear a sound in the waiting room? Pause. Ask your child, "What's that sound?" Take turns guessing. Are you hearing a slamming door or papers rustling? The squeak of a sliding chair or someone clearing his or her throat? Name them all together! Recommended Age: 2-3 year olds Kind: Offline Activity Key Concepts: Vocabulary, Exploration and Discovery Standards: IT-LC 7, IT-LC 8, IT-C 1, IT-C 2 Soothing RhymesSource: Vroom #84
When your child seems fussy, try singing a rhyme or a song. Do they calm down when your voice is quiet, or do they respond to big facial expressions and an enthusiastic voice? Try different rhymes and songs to find their favorites. Recommended Age: Birth-2 year olds Kind: Offline Activity Key Concepts: Familiar Rhyme, Relationships with Familiar Adults Standard: IT-LC 9, IT-SE 1, IT-SE 2, IT-SE 3
Big Hug, Little HugSource: Vroom #143
When it’s time for a hug, ask your child if they want a big hug or a little hug and then do what they ask. Then you take a turn and say whether you want a big or little hug. You can add other words, like a “wiggly hug” or a “quiet hug.” Recommended Age: 2-3 year olds Kind: Offline Activity Key Concepts: Vocabulary, Emergent Mathematical Thinking Standards: IT-C 10, IT-C 8, IT-C 9, IT-LC 7, IT-LC 8 Using Rhymes and SongsSource: Scholastic
Rhythmic songs help infants and toddlers enjoy group time. Seated together on the floor in infant seats, 8- to 10-month-olds bounce up and down as a teacher pounds out the familiar and strongly emphatic rhythms of a nursery rhyme. Mounted on the nursery rocking horse, a high-energy toddler vigorously and happily "rides" as his teacher recites the rhythms of the nursery rhyme "Ride a Cock Horse to Bambury Cross." Hearing rhymes adds to the pleasure of babies' vigorous body bouncing. Children with high energy levels can especially profit from adults reciting a rhyme in time to bouncing, running, or jumping. Recommended Age: Birth-2 year olds Kind: Offline Activity Key Concepts: Familiar Rhyme, Communication, Creativity Standard: IT-LC 9, IT-ATL 8, IT-ATL 9
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