Let it snow! Sentences: Subject-Verb-Object; Reasoning; Vocabulary

Snowy days are a great time to practice language skills.  While you and your child are playing in the snow, ask her what things she can do in the snow.  This will target sentence development and sentence structure (subject-verb-object).  Targets may include, "I can shovel the snow;" "I can make snowballs," "I can throw the snow."

 

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This task can also be used to stimulate reasoning, as it allows your child to think of concrete and abstract uses for snow.  See if she can think of ten things to do in the snow, or ten uses for snow.

In addition, this task can be used to build vocabulary.   Enchantedlearning.com has a nice winter vocabulary list that you may like to consult: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/wordlist/winter.shtml.