Skill Builder -- Ages 3 to 5

family During the preschool and kindergarten years, your child will be testing the waters, trying out many new skills for the first time. You can help to develop her abilities by practicing these activities:

Listening Skills
Teaching your child how to listen and understand can be fun.

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ABC Game
Pattern Sounds
The Rhyming Book
The Rhyming Game
Who's That Knocking on My Door?
Who's Talking?

Maths & Pre-Maths Drills
It's easy as 1-2-3 to give your child a head start in counting and categorizing with these fun activities.

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Balance-Scale Measuring
Laundry Sorting
Measuring with String
Playing Cards
Playing Shops
Putting Things in Order
Sorting Cutlery
The Last Straw
Toy Cars
Vegetable Patterns
Wallpaper Pattern Cards

Reading Skills
Playing with words, letters and sounds will help make reading a life-long love.

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B and D "Concentration"
Bean Sounds
Hot and Cold Boxes
Pasta Letters
Weather Labels

Motor Skills Help
Build your child's hand-eye co-ordination, balance and other abilities with these nimble fun exercises.

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Clay Crusher
Funny Face
Ice Tongs
Ladybird Race
Wool Ball Toss
Ring Toss

Science Fun
Expand your child's curiosity about nature and the world she lives in with these creative activities.

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Kaleidoscope
Light Reflectors
Magnets
Nature Thaumatrope
Plant Cuttings

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