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1998-99 Early Childhood Activities Calendar - October

October Tip of the Month
Keep a supply of books and other reading materials where children can readh them. Add new books as children's skills and interests change.
Story Time

Have fun reading or telling stories with your child. Children love stories! Whether you read a story or tell a story of your own, your child is learning how to imagine, and how words communicate ideas. The most important thing you can do as you share a story with your child is to make it an enjoyable experience for you both.

Create a

Read or tell the story of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears." Let your child help make the porridge using the recipe below, or one on a hot cereal box.

Three Bears' Breakfast Porridge

  • 3 cups water
  • 1/2 cup raisins
  • 2 cups oatmeal
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • milk, brown sugar, and cinnamon

    Add salt and raisins to water and boil. Add oatmeal. Stir and cook 5 minutes. When the porridge is "just right," serve with milk, brown sugar, and cinnamon.

    		• Rhyme 'N Play

    Make up hand motions to follow along with the words of the rhyme.

    Itsy Bitsy Spider went up the water spout.
    Down came the rain and washed the spider out.
    Out came the sun and dried up all the rain.
    And Itsy Bitsy Spider went up the spout again.

    		Library Outing

    Visit the local public library with your child. Find a book or tape and a tape player that can be checked out. Plan a special family time to enjoy listening to the tape together. If you have your own tape recorder, you can record yourself reading the library books so your child can enjoy them later.

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