October 2017

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1 2 Have your child 3 Listen to the weather 4 Have your child mix 5 Watch a TV show 6 Have your child 7
practice counting to report together yellow and blue food with your child. When it draw a picture of a
10, and then tonight. Ask your child coloring together to is over, ask questions school friend. Help
backwards to 0. to draw a picture of make a new color. like, What happened him/her write the
Which way is easier? what he/she expects Predict what will in the beginning of the friends name on it.
to see outside happen when mixing program? At the end? This can be shared
tomorrow. other colors with the new friend
tomorrow.
8 9 Measure your childs 10 Read a book 11 Go for a walk. 12 Discuss what a scale 13 Talk about what 14
height, using a piece together that contains Afterwards, recall all of measures. Have your your child did at
of string or yarn, and true facts and then the living things that child get on the scale. school today. Discuss
then measure yours. one that is not true you saw and make a Write down childs a favorite part.
What does your child (fantasy). list. Save the list to use weight and the date. Tomorrow your child
notice? Keep them to Are they different? later in the month. Save if for the next can share this with the
use later. How? weigh in. teacher.
15 16 Say an action 17 How many jumping 18 Go for a walk. 19 Look through a 20 Go on a Leaf 21
word to your child jacks can your child do Afterwards, recall non- family picture album Hunt and collect
and see if he/she can in 10 seconds, then in living things that you and talk about the leaves. Go inside and
pantomime it. Switch 20 seconds? What did saw and make a list. family. Count the sort them by color.
and ask him/her to he/she notice? Save the list to use later people in each How many are in
give you an action to in the month. picture. Can he/she each pile?
perform. name them?
22 23 Have your child 24 Plan & prepare a 25 Have your child 26 Have your child 27 Give your child a 28
draw a picture of shape snack with count the pieces of recall and sing a song cup of bite-size
him/herself and name your child. Ex: Cut mail you received learned in school. Now snacks, cereal, raisins,
the body parts in the sandwiches into tri- today. Lay them out on sing it again with new goldfish, etc. Say a
picture angles, slice oranges the table, according to words that are made number and ask
into circles. Talk about size. What do you up. What are the him/her to give you
what you see. notice? differences? that many. Repeat
29 30 Fill similar glasses 31 Go on a Listening
with different amounts Walk. Bring along a
of water. Use a spoon notepad and pencil to
to gently tap the list the sounds he/she
glasses above the hears. Raw a picture
water lines. Are the together.
sounds different?