Sing or say your favorite nursery rhyme with your child. Try making up a song with your preschooler! Singing, clapping, rhyming, and signing are fun ways to learn language skills.
Activity: Learn names
Heckedy Peckedy
All: “Heckedy Peckedy Bumblebee won’t you share your name with me?”
Child: says their name
All: repeat name
All: “That’s a very nice name!”
Activity: Learn numbers
Here is a Beehive
Here is a beehive (make a fist)
Where are the bees?
Hiding inside where nobody sees
Now we count them come out of the hive
One, two, three, four, five (release one finger at a time from the fist/hive)
…BUZZ-ZZZ (wiggle fingers)
Activity: Learn animal sounds
When cows get up in the morning
When cows get up in the morning they always say "Good Day!"
When cows get up in the morning they always say "Good Day!"
They say: “Moo! Moo!” That's how they say "Good Day"
They say, “Moo! Moo!” That's how they say "Good Day"
Repeat with other animals.
