Horses Talk to your child about horses. Things to talk about: the horse's main and hooves; what horses eat (hay); the "neigh" sound; unicorns.
Pretend Horse Race If you don't have pretend stick-horses purchased from a store, use a play broomstick for your child and a real broomstick for yourself. Pretend the broomsticks are horses. Set up an obstacle course in an area of your home (or outside). The obstacle course can simply be boxes or cones placed in a zig-zag fashion. "Race" on your horses through the obstacle course while saying "yee haw!" and "giddy'up".
Horse Ride Horse Ride: Pretend to hold the reins of a horse and ride, alternating between the words "Yeehaw", "Giddyup", "Ride 'em cowboy/girl" and "Neigh".
Horse Craft Do this fun Horse Toilet Paper Roll Craft from DLTK Kids.:
| I Hop on my Horse I hop on my horse and go to town. (Pretend to ride horse.) I ride up high and I don’t fall down. (Place arms high and then low.) I wear a hat so my hair won’t blow. (Put hand on head.) and when I want to stop, I just say Ho! (Pull back on reins.)
Horses in the Pasture Horses in the pasture (point to one side) Horses in the hay (point to other side) Horses like to run and jump (run and jump in place) Each and every day (clap along with words)
Baby's Horse: Baby's horse is Mommy's foot, He/She rides and rides each day; Sometimes his horse goes very slow, For Baby, that's okay.
Baby's horse is Mommy's foot, He rides and rides each night; Sometimes the horse goes very fast, Then Baby holds on tight.
Ride a Cock-Horse Ride a Cock-horse To Banbury Cross, To see a fine lady Upon a white horse, Rings on her fingers, And bells on her toes, She shall have music Wherever she goes.
Giddy-Up Horsy (Tune: Ride a Horsy) (First pretend to mount your horse - hold reins and sing:) Gid - dy up horsy, Go to town. Gid - dy up horsy, Oops, fall down! (fall down) Say "Hey what happened? Lets all get up and dust off our jeans and try this again." (Try again and again with same results.) Then say "I know! Maybe he's hungry! Let's feed him some hay." (Demonstrate how to hold hand flat and pretend to feed horse.) Now say, "There that should do the trick" (And mount your horse and sing song again this time ending with): "Ha! Ha! Ha! I didn't fall down!"
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Words:
Horse Mane Unicorn
| Color: Green
Numbers: 1 to 20
Shape: star
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THREE *RULES* FOR EFFECTIVE PRAISE
1) Be specific. "Good job sharing your dinosaurs," is much better than, "Good boy!" Children need to know exactly what they're doing right. You can praise effort as well as success by saying, "I like the way you tried to...".
2) Be sincere. Don't exaggerate praise. A child will probably not believe the statement, "That's the best drawing I've ever seen," but will respond positively to, "I sure like the way you drew this part of the picture up here. How did you do that?" or, "I can see that you worked really hard on this."
3) Be immediate. You must praise children while they still remember what they did. Young children need information right away. For example, "Thank you for closing the door gently. I like the way you remembered to do that."
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