Partner with families to learn about their language practices, stories, and literacy-related interactions at home, recognizing that children bring rich knowledge and skills from their first languages and cultural experiences. Dual language learners should have opportunities to demonstrate proficiency in the standard in both their first language and English, with supports such as first-language use, cross-language connections, gestures, visuals, and props. These opportunities allow young dual language learners to build on what they know and can do in their first language as they continue to develop communication, language, and literacy skills in all their languages.
During outdoor time, take a sensory tub out and fill it with water and a small amount of soap. Have the children wash baby dolls and their clothes. Create a clothesline for the children to hang up clothes to dry after they have washed and rinsed them. Provide dry towels for the babies or a place to lie them down when they are finished washing them.
