what is your experiences at home?
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In the kitchen
Math
Use recipes or cooking time to teach about measurement using measuring cups and measuring spoons. These are especially good at teaching fractions.
Use labels on cans or packages to teach numbers and quantities.
Use kitchen objects to teach patters: fork, spoon, fork, spoon, fork, spoon
Literacy
Learn vocabulary words like dicing, slicing, melting, chopping and talk about those words and experiences.
Read cookbook recipes and talk about the ingredients and the sequence (what happens first, second, third in making a meal) of the cooking process.
Science
Talk about the way foods change when they are heated or cooled.
Let your child use his senses to discover the way food smells, feels, looks, tastes, and even hear food boiling, steaming or sautéing.
Creativity
Enjoy creating new foods together and provide learning experiences that your child can help with, like the placement of the food, or the way to cut fruit or vegetables to look attractive.
Make playdough together and have your child create with it.
Social studies
Discuss how there are foods from all over the world that can be cooked and compare them. For example, talk about the many ways people cook rice around the world.
In the living room and family room
Math
Play a game with your child. Have your child find all of the numbers used every day in the living room (the television remote, a calendar, a phone, in books or magazines or on a clock).
Literacy
Enjoy reading time together after dinner or during a daily reading time. Look for letters of the alphabet in the names of family members.
Take ten minutes a day to write or draw in a journal with your child about his or her day
Science
Create memorable experiences for your child by playing with games allowing for science thinking such as playdough and popsicle sticks to make buildings, or using wooden blocks to discover balance, weight and gravity.
Talk to your child about your own experiences learning about science.
Discuss the needs of plants in the home and what they need to survive: air, water, soil and have your child create a calendar to plant watering and care for indoor plants
Creativity
Have your child use “open-ended” materials to create and make her own projects. “Open-ended” materials are those that can be used in a creative way, such as sticks, string, yarn, glue, bottle caps, tissue paper, scrap paper or boxes
Social studies
Enjoy talking about the world with your child. Discuss aspects of your own childhood, that of their grandparents too, and include art, music, literature or food.
In the bedroom
Math
Work with your child to help him sort clothing by size or color, and pair matching socks.
Count the different shirts or other clothing items that came out of the laundry.
As you fold towels, show your child how to fold a small towel from a square to a triangle or create other shapes as you fold
Literacy
Read books with your child before bedtime and create a learning experience by using a sock puppet or handmade paper puppets.
Read books based on a different theme every night.
Science
Talk about the different times of day and night, the seasons of the year, and the clothing that should be worn the next day because of the weather.
Creativity
Let your child help you in arranging their belongings and creating small areas for learning.
Have your child create a fort or small house with quilts and blankets.
Social studies
Talk to your child about how in the past, people lived in different types of houses. Check out books that show how some pioneers lived in their covered wagons, some Native Americans slept in caves, and how others around the world sleep in boats.