Activity #1 - helping your child use the information they have

Talking about food

Ask your child questions about food:
* What color is it?  What other things are that color?
*How does it taste?  What other things taste this way?
*How does it smell?
*What do you like the best?  Why?

To help your child succeed, you can:
*Talk about how food tastes, smells and feels.
*Ask your child simple questions about his/her food.
*Do this activity when you and your child are cooking in the kitchen

To make this activity more challenging, you can:
* encourage your child to describe food with more than one word (orange, juicy and sour)
* have your child practice counting raisins, nuts and comparing (big, little) and quantities (more, less)
* Ask your child harder questions about food (Is an apple a fruit or a vegetable?)
* Talk about where foods come from and how they are made