Pastors & Church Coordinators

Tell stories to your little ones about you when you were little. Family heritage!

Tell your child how you felt when you first met them.

The more words children hear and understand, the better prepared they are to learn.

Use new and interesting words. Call a big truck an enormous truck, good food, delicious food…

Sings songs to your children that you remember from your childhood.

When grocery shopping take turns finding things of different shapes and colors.

When shopping, count the things that go into your cart.

Rhyme words like cat, fat, bat, mat, make up poems and songs together using your rhymes.

Act out a familiar story with your child.

Sing and dance and be joyful with your child.

Sing and spell your child’s name to a familiar tune. Children love to hear their names!

Talk about numbers. Find numbers all around, in the stores, on signs, on TV.

On evenings when you have time – talk to your child the things you both did during the day.

On evenings when you have time, talk about what you and your child is looking forward to tomorrow.

Sharing books with your little ones is where learning to read and loving books begins.

The more experiences children have with books, the more likely they are to read early and well.

Close the day with words of love. Children need the security of knowing they are loved.

Always make time to answer your child’s questions.

Notice sounds that you hear outside. Talk about them.

Count things outside – sidewalk squares, cars that pass, birds, houses…

Find matching socks while sorting laundry. Talk about why they match

See what floats and sinks in the water at bath time. Talk about why.

Tell your children stories about you when you were little. They will love it!

Talk about the weather today and what you like or don’t like about it.

Talk about things that you do in the winter and things that you do in the summer