A Letter to Your Parents To Extend an Activity

This child is learning through observation.  He is noticing many things about the scorpion as he draws his own model.  He is only 5 years old now, but someday he might see an illustrated model drawing like this:

This activity from Summer School shows how children learn through play. As an educator, you might suggest to your parents that they can take a simple drawing made by their child, and add words and arrows just like the drawing above shows.  When a parent works with their child in  this way they are increasing their child’s vocabulary. 

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Deborah Devine