Tip 83 – Practice memory skills with your child right in the comfort of your own home… in any room.

Sit together with your child on a comfortable couch or in another favorite spot. Then take turns naming objects in a selected category. Always repeat what has been said and then add your new item. Here is an example of the way it works.

Child – Green cup

Parent – Green cup, green vase

Child – Green cup, green vase, green dish

Parent – Green cup, green vase, green dish, green castle

Choose great categories. That is your key to this game. Here are some popular ones: green (or any color), round, wooden, hard, soft, big and small. You may think of others.

Parenting Insight…

Name up to five items at any one time and then switch to a new category.

*Adapted from Make Your Own Preschool Games: A Personalized Play and Learn Program by Sally Goldberg, pp. 191-192

 

October! The Month of Positive Energy

MEETING PEOPLE

Friends are great, the best there is.

Each one is like a treasure.

Share a friend with someone else.

That’s a special pleasure.

 

To do the introduction,

It starts a standard way.

Specific words are what you’ll need.

This is what you say,

I WOULD LIKE YOU TO MEET MY FRIEND

 

JOHN, THIS IS SARAH

SARAH, THIS IS JOHN

 

When you hear this introduction

With this very special start,

Get ready with your answer.

It’s your most important part.

NICE TO MEET YOU

 

Now it’s time to listen.

You can smile in advance.

Here is what your friend might say

When there is a good chance.

NICE TO MEET YOU TOO

 

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