It’s Wednesday! Halfway through another stay-at-home week. Here are some invitations you can offer your preschooler today. A couple of the invitations today tie in with work the preschool class had been doing around storytelling and writing.
Literacy/Language Invitation: Storyteller’s/writer’s workshop
Staple a few sheets of paper together to make a blank book. Invite your child to pick out what tools they would like to use to illustrate their story. Early writers may want to write some of the words or letters, other children may dictate a story to an adult or older sibling.
Writing and telling stories is a powerful tool for young children. It connects their real experiences with their imagination, helps build the language of storytelling in pictures as well as words, and helps children make sense of their experiences.
Building Invitation: Block building al fresco
Moving materials to a new location can bring new life and new ideas into play. Today we suggest taking some blocks outside. You can take a large piece of cardboard to build on or a blanket to contain smaller blocks. Building outside may present new challenges as well as new inspiration for your child’s work.
Art/Sensory Invitation: Play dough or clay story
Invite your child to build a representation of their story from play dough or clay. They may interpret this in different ways making a different sculpture for each page, creating the world of their story and acting it out, or something completely new. You can ask if you can take photos or a video of the story so they can reflect on it later.
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