Skip Through the Seasons By Stella Blackstone Maria

Skip Through the Seasons By: Stella Blackstone Maria Carluccio

Your child has been learning about Spring. • As you look at the spring pages for April and May find the pictures of spring vocabulary words (rubber boots, puddles, umbrellas, daffodils etc. ) with your child. You can even play “I Spy”. • Talk about the vocabulary words. For example, discuss what the word means or when/what it is used for, what type of thing it is (e. g. , daffodil is a spring flower) try and use description for color, size, and material. • Model by use the word in a sentence and have your child use the word in a sentence too. “The girl is holding an umbrella”- then expand what he/she says. “The girl is holding an umbrella with flowers.

Modeling Language • Check out the language modeling post at hpsathome. com. Here a few tips. • Provide good grammar models, restating what your child has said in a more adult way. “Her walking”- “She is walking, in the rain” • You can use this book to help your child make sentences with pronouns (he/she/they, him/her, his/ her) “His coat is green. What about this boy? • You can also use this book to work on categories “clothes for rain” as well as following directions and concepts “Count all the umbrellas”. “Point to everyone inside a house”. Show me who is not outside.

Skip through the Seasons

Videos and Songs • Watch the Youtube video of the book being read aloud Skip through the Seasons, you can sing along too Skipping Through the Seasons Song. Pause as you read/listen and take time to talk about vocabulary, model language and work on concepts in fun way. • Next week you will be learning about Farms

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