Preschool Matching Activity: Pets

Today I am taking my 3 year old to the pet store.  What a great place to use language!  Pets is always a fun theme for younger children.  Talk about the similarities and differences between each pet.  What do they sound like?  What do they eat?  What do they like to do?  Do you have any pets at home?  Here is a little activity I came up with.  Since most younger children can't read, it ends up being a good listening activity.  It also established the early foundations of defining words, which we talked about in detail a few weeks ago.

Fun Fact Friday

My three year old recently explained to me that 'dehydrated' is when you don't drink enough.  That was his ploy for me to give him more juice.  Yeah, it worked.

Did you know that by the time a child is three years old, he has approximately 1,000 words in his expressive vocabulary?  A 5 year old has about 2,500, and by the time a child is 12 years old, they know and use about 50,000 words. 

Kids are SO AMAZING!!!