Activities

You will need several plastic eggs in different colors.

Have the children identify jobs in the classroom and discuss why they are important. Create a chart with the descriptions and have each child draw a picture next to the job he or she identified.

Have the children identify jobs in the classroom and discuss why they are important. Create a chart with the descriptions and have each child draw a picture next to the job he or she identified. This can be done in small group.

Read a book that has predictable rhyming words at the ends of the lines. Pause occasionally and encourage the children to fill in the blanks. Dr.

Sit on the floor with the infant.

When a child completes an activity ask, “What would you like to do now?” Give the child time to think and respond. Follow his/her gesture or gaze and, if necessary, offer appropriate words.

When a child completes an activity ask, "What would you like to do now?" Give the child time to think and respond. Follow his/her gesture or gaze and, if necessary, offer appropriate words.

Throughout the day pose the question, “What's next?” Allow the children to try to show you what's next in the schedule. The children may go get a book after being asked what is next when it is story time.

Have the children fingerpaint, and when they're done prompt with the question, "Now, what comes next?" Cue the children to look at their hands and ask if something needs to be done.

Read Not A Box by Antoinette Portis. Provide a medium-sized cardboard box, large enough for a child to sit or kneel in. Good choices might be a box disposable diapers came in or one from the grocery store that held soup cans.

Place cause-and-effect toys, such as rattles, pop- up toys, or sensory tubes within the infant's reach. Model how to use the toys several times.

Place four to five edible items with strong aromas in separate containers such as coffee grounds, onions, lemons, cinnamon, cilantro, vanilla extract or chocolate. Have the children close their eye or use a blindfold.

Encourage the children to point to a specific object in a book when asked.

Read How Many Bugs in a Box?: A Pop-up Counting Book by David A. Carter. Gather a variety of small boxes and small plastic bugs. The children can roll a die or draw a number card to place creepy bugs in a box.

Choose a child to pick a daily attribute, such as jewelry, pockets, colors worn or length of sleeves, and count the number of children that have the attribute. The child calls out the attribute and the children stand up to be counted.

Have the children sort 2-D and 3-D shapes and describe the diff erences. Encourage them to look at the faces of 3-D shapes and compare to the 2-D shapes.This could be done in large group.

Read Oh, Say Can You Say What's the Weather Today?: All About Weather by Tish Rabe. Invite a local meteorologist to visit the class and talk about his/her job.

Provide picture cards, in the writing center, for the children to identify and have them create lists of words that begin with the same sound.

Make or use nontoxic play dough and add scented oils. Encourage the children to manipulate play dough with their hands and with tools such as plastic utensils, cookie cutters and rollers.

Make copies of book covers and cover the book titles. Laminate the covers. Encourage the children to make up titles and write them on the covers.