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store. Then encourage your child to look for sources that support their claim and listen for
different sounds.
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Connect/Extend/Challenge: Before you visit a store ask your child for ideas and
information that already knows about that store. Visit that store and extend with new
ideas and thinking about this particular store. What new ideas did you get that extend
your thinking in new directions? Complete the activity with “Challenge.” Ask your child
what is challenging or confusing about the store. What questions they might have?
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Beginning/Middle/End: This is a routine for finding the heart and making connections. It
helps us start modeling the language and naming events. During a visit to a store take
some pictures (ex.: the empty shopping cart, while you are taking products from the
shelves, filled shopping cart, at the cashier line, while you are paying). After going home
present the pictures to your child and encourage him/her to create a story. The goal is to
sequence the events in a time frame of Beginning/Middle/End.
We hope you will enjoy the activities! Take pictures and share your experience
with us!!! ☺
This month I spy Collaboration
This themed unit is focused on collaboration and learning how we help each other by
exchanging products. It is a great opportunity to help our little learners to understand how we get
along and work well with others. This is not something that can be cultivated through rote
memorization, children must be engaged and cooperation must be practiced. Challenge children
by:
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Asking when was the last time you help someone? How did this make you feel?
(Reinforce with the Circle of View Point and Perceive/Know/Care about)