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Early Childhood Reading
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Early childhood is a critical time to develop a love of reading. MSU Extension can help parents and caregivers make the most of their reading time with their children.
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Heads In, Hearts In: Clothespin Letters
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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. -
Heads In, Hearts In: Cupcake Counting
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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. -
Heads In, Hearts In: Alphabet Sand Writing
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Published on October 18, 2018
In this activity, children will practice recognizing and writing letters in sand. -
Heads In, Hearts In: Full Early Childhood Activity Book
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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. -
Heads In, Hearts In: Letter Hunt
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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. -
Heads In, Hearts In: Let's Read!
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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. -
Heads In, Hearts In: Parts of a Book
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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. -
Heads In, Hearts In: Flip Flop Rhyming Fun
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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. -
Heads In, Hearts In: Building Words With Letter Boards
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Published on October 23, 2018
In this activity, you will practice reading skills by playing a game that involves mixing letters together to make words. Pre-writers will also practice letter identification. -
School Readiness
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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.
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Heads In, Hearts In: Digging Up Vowel Sounds
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Published on October 23, 2018
In this activity, you will review short and long vowel sounds by placing each word into the correct bucket. -
Heads In, Hearts In: Writing Prompts
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Published on October 23, 2018
In this activity, you will write something based on a writing prompt. -
Heads In, Hearts In: Cut, Paste, Create
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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. -
Heads In, Hearts In: Adverb Acting Game
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Published on October 23, 2018
In this activity, you will play the Adverb Acting Game to discover how adverbs help to explain what, when, where or under what condition something occurred. -
Heads In, Hearts In: Roll-a-Story
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Published on October 23, 2018
In this activity, you will demonstrate an understanding of how to start a story by developing a story with three different parts. -
Heads In, Hearts In: Antonym Search
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Published on October 23, 2018
This activity will help you develop an understanding of the term “antonym.” In this activity, you will play a game in which you search for a word and connect it to the opposite word, or the word’s antonym. -
Heads In, Hearts In: Parts of a Story Cube
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Published on October 23, 2018
In this activity, you will demonstrate an understanding of six different parts of a story. -
Heads In, Hearts In: Synonym Search
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Published on October 23, 2018
In this activity you will learn about synonyms by playing a game in which you search for a word and connect it to the word to its synonym. -
Heads In, Hearts In: Cereal Box Search
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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.
