Build Holiday Vocabulary Skills

• Talk about who sent the card especially if pictures are enclosed. If not pictures are enclosed, pull out the family picture album to point out the senders. Of course, you will receive your share of advertisers' cards and cards from obscure acquaintances. These can be discussed as from a store or people from work, etc.
• Discuss the pictures on the cards. Are they animals? people? special places?
• Talk about the look of the cards. Are they pretty? shiny? funny?
• Discuss the cards' sizes: big? little? long? square? rectangular?
• Keep the cards in a place that is accessible to your child. Encourage him to look trough them and talk about them often. The cards are to enjoy - right? Why keep them out of reach?
• Let your child share the cards with others as they visit. Grandparents love to look at Christmas cards. This is a perfect time to encourage communication between your child and the grandparents.
• After the holidays, reuse the cards to make a Christmas vocabulary book.

Christmas Vocabulary Book

1. Choose cards with pictures of single items that can be cut out.
2. Glue each picture on a large index card.
3. Print the word for the item under the picture.
4. Attach the cards with a ring at the corner.
5. Write a title on the front of the book: Sara's Christmas Words.
6. Be ready to read and reread this classic, vocabulary-builder with your child.

Holiday Question Book

1. Follow the above steps, but for this book choose pictures that show where something is. (For example, a bird on a fence or a tree in front of a house.
2. When making the pages fo the question book, write the question at the top of the page, and a full sentence answer at the bottom of the page.
3. Possible words to use to describe placement: on, under, next to, in front of, on top of, between, around.

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