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Find fun, simple activities you can do with your child to support learning and school readiness.

 

Spending time together through play, reading, and everyday moments helps build your child’s language, confidence, and curiosity. These activities are designed to be easy to follow and enjoyable for both you and your child.


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AB Patterns

Learning Area(s): Math  |  Age Group: 3 years old4 years old5 years old
Learning Objective: The child will recognize and extend AB patterns. (A login is required for your child to complete this online activity.)

Animal Sizes

Learning Area(s): MathScience  |  Age Group: 3 years old4 years old5 years old
Learning Objective: The child will compare the weight and size of animals. (A login is required for your child to complete this online activity.)

Animal Sort

Learning Area(s): MathScience  |  Age Group: 3 years old4 years old5 years old
Learning Objective: The child will sort pictures of animals based on their body coverings. (A login is required for your child to complete this online activity.)

At the Recycling Center

Learning Area(s): MathScience  |  Age Group: 3 years old4 years old5 years old
Learning Objective: The child will sort recyclable items by material. (A login is required for your child to complete this online activity.)

Block Measuring

Learning Area(s): Math  |  Age Group: 4 years old5 years old
Learning Objective: In this activity, your child will use interlocking blocks to begin to understand measurement and compare how long or tall common household objects are.

Build It Like Me

Learning Area(s): Language and CommunicationMath  |  Age Group: 3 years old4 years old5 years old
Learning Objective: This building activity encourages children to recognize shapes and to use math-specific vocabulary to talk about a structure they are building.

Building World Knowledge

Learning Area(s): Language and CommunicationReading and WritingMathScienceSensory and Art  |  Age Group: 3 years old4 years old5 years old6 years old7 years old8 years old
Learning Objective: This video highlights the importance of building content knowledge around STEM concepts (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). We discuss different strategies to use with your child and provide examples of activities to do with your child to build content knowledge.

Calendar Count

Learning Area(s): Math  |  Age Group: 4 years old5 years old
Learning Objective: Using the family/household calendar, your child will count the number of days until a special event. Your child will also begin to recognize that weeks and months are numbered sets of days.

Color Cards Match

Learning Area(s): Language and CommunicationMath  |  Age Group: 24-36 months3 years old4 years old
Learning Objective: Toddlers will practice recognizing, naming, and matching colors using colored cards.

Color Hunt

Learning Area(s): Language and CommunicationMath  |  Age Group: 24-36 months3 years old4 years old5 years old
Learning Objective: This activity encourages children to identify colors as they go on a color hunt to find objects.

Count and Match

Learning Area(s): MathPhysical Development  |  Age Group: 3 years old4 years old5 years old
Learning Objective: The child will recognize written numbers 1 to 9 and use one-to-one correspondence to count out the correct number of items

Counting Scavenger Hunt

Learning Area(s): MathScience  |  Age Group: 24-36 months3 years old4 years old
Learning Objective: Children will go on an outside scavenger hunt to collect sets of items for each number 1-5.

Creating Art with Shapes

Learning Area(s): MathSensory and Art  |  Age Group: 4 years old5 years old
Learning Objective: In this activity, the child has the opportunity to be creative by using a variety of shapes to create art.

Ducks in the Pond

Learning Area(s): Language and CommunicationMath  |  Age Group: 4 years old5 years old
Learning Objective: In this activity, your child will play a game of counting objects and creating sets of objects.

Exploring Habitats

Learning Area(s): MathScience  |  Age Group: 3 years old4 years old5 years old
Learning Objective: The child will learn about the features of different habitats: desert, swamp, and mountains. (A login is required for your child to complete this online activity.)

Family Fitness

Learning Area(s): MathPhysical Development  |  Age Group: 24-36 months3 years old4 years old5 years old
Learning Objective: Children will do exercises with their parents by choosing number and movement cards out of a pile.

Feed Me More!

Learning Area(s): Math  |  Age Group: 3 years old4 years old5 years old
Learning Objective: The child will feed a monster by choosing the plate of food that has more. (A login is required for your child to complete this online activity.)

Find the Sound

Learning Area(s): Language and CommunicationMath  |  Age Group: 3 years old4 years old5 years old
Learning Objective: In this activity, your child will use listening skills to find a hidden object by orienting to its sound.

Fingerprint Patterns

Learning Area(s): MathSensory and Art  |  Age Group: 3 years old4 years old5 years old
Learning Objective: Your child will create patterns with their fingerprints.

Flying Paper Planes

Learning Area(s): MathScience  |  Age Group: 7 years old8 years old9 years old10 years old11 years old
Learning Objective: Your child will explore how changing the shape of a paper airplane affects how far the plane flies.

Going on a Shape Hunt

Learning Area(s): Math  |  Age Group: 3 years old4 years old5 years old
Learning Objective: The child will identify shapes in the environment. (A login is required for your child to complete this online activity.)

Great Sock Sort

Learning Area(s): Math  |  Age Group: 24-36 months
Learning Objective: Sorting, visual memory, and matching are important pre-math skills for toddlers. In this activity, the child will use an everyday item, socks, to play a matching game.

Jump to the Number

Learning Area(s): MathPhysical Development  |  Age Group: 3 years old4 years old5 years old
Learning Objective: In this activity, your child will play a game to practice identifying numbers from 0-10. Children who have mastered this skill will practice ordering numbers from 0 to 10. This kind of game helps children match the number word they hear with the written number, and helps them attend to each number individually, which can be more challenging than just rote counting aloud.

Let’s Bake!

Learning Area(s): Language and CommunicationMath  |  Age Group: 4 years old5 years old
Learning Objective: In this activity, you and your child will bake a sweet treat together.

Let’s Tap and Count

Learning Area(s): Math  |  Age Group: 3 years old4 years old5 years old
Learning Objective: Your child will play a tapping game to count numbers between one and ten in the correct order.

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