{"id":1248,"date":"2008-02-28T21:01:51","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T04:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2009-10-31T21:05:38","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T04:05:38","slug":"start-match-the-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=1248","title":{"rendered":"stART: Match the Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">Turn on your child&#8217;s fascination with how things work with a simple homemade game.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">\n<div class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0Catalog or magazine pictures of different types of large and small machines and appliances your child recognizes<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0small basket or container<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0oaktag or index cards<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0large sheets of paper (chart paper or newsprint)<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0drawing paper<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0glue stick<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0scissors<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0markers<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0crayons<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">Together, read some books about machines and the work they do for us. <em>Machines at Work<\/em> and <em>Big Farm Machines<\/em> are good choices. \u00c2\u00a0Make your own matching game. Cut out a variety of pictures of different types of machines found in different environments (home, school, and offices, for example). Glue them onto large index cards.\u00c2\u00a0On a larger sheet of paper, draw a house, an office building, a farm, or any other familiar place.\u00c2\u00a0Show your child the cards you made and talk about the names of each machine. Which is the largest? Which ones are smaller? Where does she think the machines would work best?\u00c2\u00a0Lay out all the cards and the drawings and work with your child to match each machine with the place it belongs.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0Supports matching skills<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0Promotes vocabulary-building conversation<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0Teaches pre-math concepts<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turn on your child&#8217;s fascination with how things work with a simple homemade game. \u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0Catalog or magazine pictures of different types of large and small machines and appliances your child recognizes \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0small basket or container \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0oaktag or index cards \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0large sheets of paper (chart paper or newsprint) \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0drawing paper \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0glue stick \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0scissors \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0markers \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0crayons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,64,34,37,15,49,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1250,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions\/1250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}