Teaching your preschoolers can always be disguised by using fun activities. Here are two great ideas to increase their school readiness.
TEACHING OBJECTIVE/BEFORE YOU BEGIN:
Story time can be extremely creative as you and your preschooler develop a made up story together. it can either be factual, such as when you were first born—- and then continuing on with all the things your child did as a baby and a toddler, or it can be totally fictitious such as One day a little piggie knocked on our door and wanted to come in—-. When you print each sentence on the lined paper your preschooler will follow your actions with her eyes and see the words appear from left to right on the paper. When the story is finished decide on a title. Then write that title at the top of the page. Be sure to leave room to print the author line which should include by your name and by your child’s name under the title. As you read both the old favorite story book as well as the new one you just created, be sure you or she follows the words with a finger going from left to right under them. This is a great reading readiness activity.
A favorite book
Lined writing paper
A pencil
You and your child’s imagination
1. Read your child’s favorite story to her.
2. Encourage her to retell the story with your help.
3. explain to your child that now you can make up a story of your own with both of you using your imaginations.
4. start a story, writing it down as you go. Print the words carefully as you create them.
5. Encourage your child to add new parts to the story, taking turns, and continue to create the story on paper.
6. When finished, make up a title, add an author line, and read the new story to your child.
TEACHING OBJECTIVE/BEFORE YOU BEGIN:
Looking for what is missing in this activity is a great way to help your preschooler learn to look very carefully at things around him. When it’s time for him to learn to discriminate the differences in letters, looking for those small changes in the way a particular letter is formed may come more easily after he has practiced with larger pictures. As he begins to follow your skill at drawing simple pictures, his ability to make a recognizable picture should improve. Kids love to imitate what their parents and siblings are doing. He may also enjoy doing this activity with other children as well as with you.
Lots of paper
Markers
1. Sit down at the table with your child and tell him that you’re going to play a funny game.
2. On a piece of paper, draw a head with as much detail as you wish, but leave something missing, such as one eye or the mouth.
3. Ask him to tell what is missing, and either you or he can draw it in.
4. do several other pictures this way, i.e. a house without a door, a cat without one leg, a flower without a stem, a clown without one of his large, funny shoes.
5. After you’ve done several pictures, ask your child draw one (or more) so that you can figure out what is missing.
6. Study each of his pictures carefully pretending that you can’t find what is missing right away. Perhaps he’ll finally have to tell you what is missing.