Parent's Guide: Verbs, Tenses, and Vocabulary Fun!
This guide strings together several short language activities - building adjective flashcards, identifying verb tenses, and running a simple sink-or-float experiment - to introduce children ages 3-5 to descriptive vocabulary and the idea that verbs change form depending on when an action happens. The hands-on water experiment doubles as a vocabulary builder, since children practice new describing words like 'floats' and 'sinks' while observing real cause and effect.
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Month 9: Multi-Subject Early Learning | Ages 6-7Curriculum
How to use this worksheet
Begin with the flashcard activity: write or draw simple adjectives, like 'happy' or 'wet,' onto cards and take turns acting them out or pointing to matching pictures. Move to the tense activity, reading a short list of sentences aloud and asking your child to identify whether each one describes something happening now, that already happened, or that will happen later. Finish with the sink-or-float experiment, filling a bowl with water and letting your child predict, test, and describe whether each object sinks or floats using full sentences like 'The rock sinks.'
Materials needed
- Paper
- Pencils
- Flashcards
- Objects for sinking/floating
- Water bowl
Extension activities
- •Test five more household objects in the water bowl and keep a simple picture chart of what sinks and what floats.
- •Act out three adjectives from the flashcards, like 'sleepy' or 'loud,' and have your child guess the word.
- •Take turns making up silly sentences in the past, present, and future tense about the same object, like a ball.
- •Read a picture book together and pause to point out any adjectives the author used to describe characters or settings.
- •Turn the flashcards into a matching memory game by making two of each card and flipping them face down.
Tips for parents and teachers
Keep the grammar language simple - instead of saying 'past tense,' try 'something that already happened' - since formal terminology isn't necessary for a child this age to grasp the concept. During the sink-or-float experiment, let your child make a prediction before testing so they experience the excitement of confirming or revising a guess. Spread the guide's activities across a few short sessions rather than one long sitting, since attention span limits how much new vocabulary a 3-5 year old can absorb at once.
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Hemsweta Jain · Teacher Cheena
MBA and Early Childhood Educator, teaching since 2014 · Founder of RaisoActive, Mumbai
Every RaisoActive worksheet is designed and checked by the founder before publishing.
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