It’s the middle of the week and the middle of the month today! Here are a few invitations we hope bring a little wonder into your child’s life today.
Fine Motor Invitation: Read Not a Box by Antoinette Portis with your child. Find an empty box, and ask your child, “what can this be?”
Supply other recycling materials and tape as needed.
Intention is to foster imaginative and representative play, extend literacy into an art project
Sensory Invitation: Consider coming up with different sensory categories with your child like “soft, hard, squishy, pointy, scratchy” and ask your child sort their toys?
Intention is to further strengthen existing sensory schemas, work on classification systems, and possibly see how categories can overlap.
A toy is this AND that not always this OR that.
Art Invitation: Drawing “Not a leaf”
Using a leaf from outside, invite your child to think what shape the leaf resembles, inquire if they can make a drawing with the leaf representing the part of a drawing that your child chooses. For example, if your child were to say, “It’s not a leaf, it is an umbrella” then invite your child to make a drawing using the leaf as an umbrella.
Outdoor Invitation: Backyard Bird Walk
Listen to some bird sounds below. See if you can hear any of these calls outside…
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