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Early literacy starts at infancy! Children develop these skills through daily interactions and by experiencing the world that surrounds them. Singing songs, reading books, engaging in dialogues, and drawing are various ways to promote literacy.

• For two-year-olds, we may act out the story of the Three Little Pigs, practicing inhaling and exhaling to encourage speech development while we develop our comprehension and vocabulary.
• For three-year-olds, we may sing Old McDonald Had a Farm and introduce rhyming words, learning to differentiate and recognize sounds and create symbols, both valuable pre-reading and pre-writing skills.
• For Pre-K age children, we may pretend to be in a restaurant and practice taking food orders, creating menus, and following multi-step directions as we “prepare the food.”

Math is everywhere! Young children develop early math concepts such as one-to-one correspondence, sizes, shapes, patterns through thoughtfully planned experiences.

• For two-year-olds, through sensory play and building, we can compare and contrast the buildings in the Three Little Pigs and explore the textures and capacities of the different materials.
• For three-year-olds, as we build homes for our toy animals, we develop our problem-solving skills, practice counting and measurement, and increase our understanding of the natural world.
• For Pre-K age children, we can elevate our restaurant play by adding in payments and counting as well as measurements and patterns.