I have been working on winter clothing words with many of the EC and blended PreK students. A great way to reinforce/generalize these ideas are to practice labeling and talking about the items as the child is getting dressed. You can ask questions, such as "Where do you put your boots?" or for students that need a little more of a language model/prompt, give them them the first part of the sentence and have them finish it. For example, hold up his/her shirt and ask "What's this?"- he/she says "shirt" - you can say "That's right, shirt. I wear my shirt on my______". If he/she says the wrong label when you ask what it is, you can give him/her the word, use it in a sentence and then ask again. (E.g., scarf What's this? shirt - "This is a scarf. I wear it on my neck. What is this?" scarf. "It is a scarf. I wear a scarf on my ___").
The other thing that I have been working on is location concepts - on/off, in/out, under/above, between/next to. You can practice this at home with some of his/her toys (e.g., put the car in the box....put the car above the box....put the block on the car...).
A few of my students are working on problem solving. There are many great ways to do this. I have been using some pictures that I found on Google Images (e.g., people falling on the ice, cars covered in snow, people outside without proper winter clothing) and talking about what is wrong in the picture, what the person could do differently next time to avoid that situation, and so on. There are also some great animated short films on YouTube that you could watch and talk about what they think may happen next, what's the problem, and what they could do to solve the problem (it can be a silly video - see below!).
Bundle up and stay warm!
The other thing that I have been working on is location concepts - on/off, in/out, under/above, between/next to. You can practice this at home with some of his/her toys (e.g., put the car in the box....put the car above the box....put the block on the car...).
A few of my students are working on problem solving. There are many great ways to do this. I have been using some pictures that I found on Google Images (e.g., people falling on the ice, cars covered in snow, people outside without proper winter clothing) and talking about what is wrong in the picture, what the person could do differently next time to avoid that situation, and so on. There are also some great animated short films on YouTube that you could watch and talk about what they think may happen next, what's the problem, and what they could do to solve the problem (it can be a silly video - see below!).
Bundle up and stay warm!