Parent's Guide: Verbs, Tenses, and Vocabulary Fun!

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

• 1Test five more household objects in the water bowl and keep a simple picture chart of what sinks and what floats.
• 2Act out three adjectives from the flashcards, like 'sleepy' or 'loud,' and have your child guess the word.
• 3Take turns making up silly sentences in the past, present, and future tense about the same object, like a ball.
• 4Read a picture book together and pause to point out any adjectives the author used to describe characters or settings.
• 5Turn the flashcards into a matching memory game by making two of each card and flipping them face down.