Get Ready for School

Activities for infants and toddlers

These activities turn everyday play into school-ready learning. Children can build listening and language skills, and develop a love of learning that will help them feel confident as they try new things.

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Color Cards Match

Age Group: 24-36 months, 3 years old, 4 years old

Learning Area: Language and Communication, Math

Learning Objective: Toddlers will practice recognizing, naming, and matching colors using colored cards.

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Counting Scavenger Hunt

Age Group: 24-36 months, 3 years old, 4 years old

Learning Area: Math, Science

Learning Objective: Children will go on an outside scavenger hunt to collect sets of items for each number 1-5.

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Family Fitness

Age Group: 24-36 months, 3 years old, 4 years old, 5 years old

Learning Area: Math, Physical Development

Learning Objective: Children will do exercises with their parents by choosing number and movement cards out of a pile.

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Make a Match

Age Group: 24-36 months, 3 years old

Learning Area: Language and Communication, Math

Learning Objective: Your child will play a matching game with pairs of objects.

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My Amazing Body

Age Group: 24-36 months, 3 years old, 4 years old

Learning Area: Reading and Writing, Social and Emotional

Learning Objective: Your child will increase self-awareness and learn about parts of the human body, as well as how they work, by reading a book and reciting a chant...

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Post Office

Age Group: 24-36 months, 3 years old, 4 years old, 5 years old

Learning Area: Language and Communication, Reading and Writing

Learning Objective: Introduce your child to letter writing and early literacy concepts by playing Post Office. Your child will compose or dictate mail, talk about who...

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Snack Sorting

Age Group: 24-36 months

Learning Area: Math, Physical Development

Learning Objective: Your child will sort colored cereal or snack food into groups based on color.

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Snacktime Counting

Age Group: 24-36 months, 3 years old, 4 years old

Learning Area: Math, Physical Development

Learning Objective: Using cereal or another snack food, your toddler can practice early math skills like counting and one-to-one correspondence, and he can improve fine...

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Stir, Scoop, and Bake

Age Group: 18-24 months, 24-36 months, 3 years old

Learning Area: Math, Physical Development

Learning Objective: You and your child will pretend to measure ingredients and bake using water and simple kitchen tools.

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Trace and Erase

Age Group: 24-36 months, 3 years old

Learning Area: Reading and Writing, Physical Development

Learning Objective: The child will use a dry erase board and a cotton swab (or a chalkboard and a wet paintbrush) to trace and erase letters and drawings.

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