TS EDR Digital Sampler - Flipbook - Page 18
Following Daily Guidance
Embedded within the daily
guidance are strategies, best
practices, and connections back
to the Foundation Volumes to
DAY 2
How do you open and
close containers?
ensure teachers feel supported
every day throughout the year.
Making the Most
of Routines
Throughout each day, teachers
Dual-language learners The relaxed atmosphere of mealtime is ideal for having individual
conversations with children who are learning English. Talking with children one-on-one
builds relationships while promoting vocabulary. Ask how to say the names of common
foods in their language while pointing to the food. Use self-talk to describe what you are
doing during mealtimes: “I am putting two carrots on my plate. One carrot, two carrots. I am
passing the plate of carrots to Diego now.”
will use the new resources
included with Expanded Daily
Resources for Twos and resources
included within The Creative
Curriculum® for Infants, Toddlers
If your program provides lunch or snack, talk about the food with the children, serve it in
an attractive way, and taste everything yourself. These actions will demonstrate a positive
approach to trying new foods during your eating and mealtimes routines.
Morning Moment
With Families
& Twos.
Family Guidance: Explore this container with your child. How does it open and close?
Display a container with a hinged lid, such as a clean cardboard or plastic take-out container.
Invite families to explore the container with their children and discover how it opens and
closes.
Investigating
Containers:
Opening and
Closing Hinged
Containers
Support for dual-language learners
• Display a variety of closed hinged
containers, such as pencil boxes and plastic
or cardboard take-out containers.
• Show the children one of the containers and
try to open it by lifting off the lid. Say, “Oh,
this container has a different kind of lid. I
wonder how to open it.”
• Encourage the children to explore opening
and closing the hinged containers.
• Use parallel talk to describe what you
see the children doing: “You opened the
container. Now you are pushing the lid back
down. You closed it, but it popped back
open!”
• Invite the children to try to open one of the
containers.
Daily strategies for connecting
with families
Parallel talk is describing children’s actions to them. This strategy helps children make
connections between the words you are saying and what they are doing.
Vocabulary
Moments
Focus on language development
English: open, close
Spanish: abrir, cerrar
Use the words open and close as children explore the containers.
“Gabriel, you opened the container! How do you close it? Open, close, open, close. That is how
you open and close the container.”
“How do I close this lid, Samantha? Oh, you just push it down and it clicks closed. You closed it.”
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