Parent's Guide: Sight Words, Vowels, and Early Math Activities
This parent's guide combines sight word recognition, vowel puppet play, simple subtraction with blocks, and living-versus-non-living observation, giving children ages 3-5 broad exposure to early literacy, number sense, and basic science reasoning through varied hands-on activities. Because each section targets a different skill, the guide offers something to match whatever your child feels drawn to that day.
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Month 4: Learning & Development | Ages 5-6
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Curriculum
- Fluency > Sight Words
How to use this worksheet
Read through the activity options first and pick one that fits your available materials and your child's mood. For the vowel section, help make simple puppets from popsicle sticks; for subtraction, use blocks to act out taking objects away; for the living and non-living activity, plant seeds in a pot with soil and observe over time. Let your child do as much of the hands-on work themselves as possible.
Materials needed
- Popsicle sticks
- Paper
- Pencil
- Storybooks
- Blocks
- Pot
- Soil
- Seeds
Extension activities
- 1Set up a pretend shop using real coins to practice both addition and subtraction.
- 2Observe and discuss the planted seeds' growth over the following days and weeks.
- 3Add new vowel puppets and use them to act out a silly short story.
- 4Sort household items into living and non-living groups as a follow-up game.
- 5Talk about the concept of currency using coins from the subtraction activity.
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Hemsweta Jain · Teacher Cheena
MBA and Early Childhood Educator, teaching since 2014 · Founder of RaisoActive, Mumbai
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