Horses
Talk to your child about horses.
Things to talk about:  the horse's
main and hooves; what horses eat
(hay); the "neigh" sound; unicorns.

Pretend Horse Race
If you don't have pretend
stick-horses purchased from a
store, use a play broomstick for
your child and a real broomstick
for yourself. Pretend the
broomsticks are horses. Set up an
obstacle course in an area of your
home (or outside). The obstacle
course can simply be boxes or
cones placed in a zig-zag fashion.
"Race" on your horses through the
obstacle course while saying "yee
haw!" and "giddy'up".

Horse Ride
Horse Ride: Pretend to hold the
reins of a horse and ride,
alternating between the words
"Yeehaw", "Giddyup",  "Ride 'em
cowboy/girl" and "Neigh".


Horse Craft
Do this fun Horse Toilet Paper Roll
Craft from DLTK Kids.:

I Hop on my Horse
I hop on my horse and go to town.     
(Pretend to ride horse.)
I ride up high and I don’t fall down.        
(Place arms high and then low.)
I wear a hat so my hair won’t blow.       
(Put hand on head.)
and when I want to stop, I just say Ho!  
(Pull back on reins.)


Horses in the Pasture
Horses in the pasture (point to one
side)
Horses in the hay (point to other side)
Horses like to run and jump (run and
jump in place)
Each and every day (clap along with
words)

Baby's Horse:
Baby's horse is Mommy's foot,
He/She rides and rides each day;
Sometimes his horse goes very slow,
For Baby, that's okay.

Baby's horse is Mommy's foot,
He rides and rides each night;
Sometimes the horse goes very fast,
Then Baby holds on tight.

Ride a Cock-Horse
Ride a Cock-horse
To Banbury Cross,
To see a fine lady
Upon a white horse,
Rings on her fingers,
And bells on her toes,
She shall have music
Wherever she goes.

Giddy-Up Horsy
(Tune: Ride a Horsy)
(First pretend to mount your horse -
hold reins and sing:)
Gid - dy   up  horsy, Go to town.
Gid - dy   up  horsy,
Oops, fall down! (fall down)
Say "Hey what happened? Lets all get
up and dust off our jeans and try this
again."
(Try again and again with same
results.)
Then say "I know! Maybe he's hungry!
Let's feed him some hay."
(Demonstrate how to hold hand flat
and pretend to feed horse.)
Now say, "There that should do the
trick"
(And mount your horse and sing song
again this time ending with):
"Ha! Ha! Ha! I didn't fall down!"

Words:

Horse
Mane
Unicorn

Color: Green

Numbers: 1 to 20

Shape: star

THREE *RULES* FOR
EFFECTIVE PRAISE

1) Be specific. "Good job
sharing your dinosaurs," is
much better than, "Good boy!"
Children need to know exactly
what they're doing right. You
can praise effort as well as
success by saying, "I like the
way you tried to...".

2) Be sincere. Don't
exaggerate praise. A child will
probably not believe the
statement, "That's the best
drawing I've ever seen," but will
respond positively to, "I sure
like the way you drew this part
of the picture up here. How did
you do that?" or, "I can see that
you worked really hard on this."

3) Be immediate. You must
praise children while they still
remember what they did.
Young children need
information right away. For
example, "Thank you for
closing the door gently. I like
the way you remembered to do
that."