preschool

LEARNING ACTIVITIES FOR 4 YEAR OLDS:

-Join in simple board and card games that depend on chance, not strategy; emphasis should be on playing, not winning. (ex. Candyland, Hi-Ho Cherrio)

-Provide puzzles with 5 to 10 pieces (depending on your child), counting and alphabet games and matching games.

-Offer various kinds of simple scientific and math materials: ruler, magnifying glass, simple scales; activities such as collecting leaves and sprouting seeds.

-Appreciate the child’s spontaneous rhyming, chanting, silly name-calling, jokes, and riddles.

-Continue daily read-aloud times; encourage the child to supply words or phrases, to guess what comes next, to retell the story; go to the library regularly, allowing the child ample time to choose books.

-Encourage all kinds of vigorous outdoor activity; water play in sprinkler; offer unpressured swimming, tumbling, or dancing lessons.

-Taken from: By the Ages by K. Eileen Allen/Lynn R. Marotz