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  Heads In, Hearts In: Clothespin Letters

  Published on October 18, 2018
  In this activity,the child will learn to recognize letters and spell words as they practice and develop their fine motor skills by matching clothespin letters to letters in a word.

• School Readiness

  Tools and programs to help adults make important decisions about a child's school readiness and resources for helping children build communications, math, science and reading skills.

• Workshops & Series

  MI Stronger Family news, programming and other resources from MSU Extension.

• Social and Emotional Health in Young Children

  Published on July 10, 2014
  

• 4-H Military Family Book Sheets

  Published on January 20, 2014
  The 4-H Military Family Book Sheets help parents and guardians find books and activities to help their children during various stages of their service members’ deployments.

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  Preparing Young Children for Success

  Published on May 25, 2016
  A summary of MSU Extension's early childhood education programming in 2015.

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  Heads In, Hearts In: Birds Eating Worms

  Published on October 18, 2018
  In this activity, children will practice fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination by grasping, opening and closing clothespins.

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  Heads In, Hearts In: Parts of a Book

  Published on October 18, 2018
  In this activity children will choose a book to explore and you will work with them to identify the simple parts of a book.

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  Heads In, Hearts In: Letter Hunt

  Published on October 18, 2018
  In this activity, you will encourage the child to search for the hidden letters in the cornmeal and then match each letter up with the letter on the letter sheets.

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  Heads In, Hearts In: Flip Flop Rhyming Fun

  Published on October 18, 2018
  In this activity, the child will practice understanding how rhyming words start with different letters or sounds, but end the same way. They will match up words that rhyme by matching halves of pairs of flip flops.

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  Heads In, Hearts In: Let's Read!

  Published on October 18, 2018
  In this activity, children will choose a book to explore and read and then work with them to recall and identify what happened in the story.

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  Heads In, Hearts In: Full Early Childhood Activity Book

  Published on October 18, 2018
  The Heads In, Hearts In family enrichment program encourages families to use their minds as a tool to expand their knowledge around a variety of topic areas. This packet contains all 15 early childhood activities.

• Building Early Emotional Skills in Young Children

  This eight-week workshop helps parents and caregivers of children ages 0-3 to develop the skills needed to support the social and emotional development of their child.

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  Heads In, Hearts In: Alphabet Sand Writing

  Published on October 18, 2018
  In this activity, children will practice recognizing and writing letters in sand.

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  Heads In, Hearts In: Cupcake Counting

  Published on October 18, 2018
  In this activity, adults will encourage and support children as they practice their fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination and counting by placing the correct number of pompoms in the cupcake liner.

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  Fight Lead Effects with Learning and Play - Mandarin

  Published on May 19, 2016
  A Mandarin resource regarding how positive early childhood experiences can help limit the effects of lead on kids.

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  Heads In, Hearts In: How Many Syllables?

  Published on October 23, 2018
  In this activity, you will discover how to count the syllables of the words that describe each picture.

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  Heads In, Hearts In: See It, Hear It, Do It

  Published on October 23, 2018
  In this activity, you will use all three learning styles to practice spelling the words found on the cards.

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  Heads In, Hearts In: Cereal Box Search

  Published on October 23, 2018
  In this activity, you will use the cereal boxes to draw the front of the cereal box, creatively write about imaginary adventures involving the cereal box or participate in a search.

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  Heads In, Hearts In: Cut, Paste, Create

  Published on October 23, 2018
  In this activity, you will demonstrate an understanding of how to start a story using visual prompts from magazines for ideas.