Pre-Kindergarten

Parent and child activities

v Read stories that reinforce numbers such as: The Three Bears, The Three Little Pigs, This Old Man, El Barco Chiquito, and Orima de Chocolate.

v Select household chores which teach one-to-one correspondence like setting the table, serving guests, or sharing snacks with friends.

v Create opportunities for your child to explore shapes with different tactile media like clay, crayon, sand, paint, or pencil.

v Give your child kitchen items to sort by color, shape, or size like silverware, measuring spoons, cookie cutters, or mixing bowls.  Give your child household items to sort like buttons, sock, books, or keys.

v Talk to your child about likenesses and differences in the illustrations of stories.

v Teach positional words like inside, outside, under, next, and between by playing popular children's games like Simon Says, Red Rover, or Mother May I?