Unit 2. Noticing our world

• Guidelines for parents.
  
  
• Part 1. Learning how to look, listen, touch and to be aware of the surroundings.

  Activity 1: "What is This?"
  Activity 2: "Details; Details..."
  Activity 3: "Sense-A-Tional Food!"
  Activity 4: "To See Is To Remember"

• Part 2. Pattern recognition and pattern production.

  Activity 1: "Cereal Serial"
  Activity 2: "A Moving Experience"
  Activity 3: "Pattern Pictures"

• Part 3. Comparing and classifying by shape, color, size.

  Activity 1: "The Collector"
  Activity 2: "I Spy"
  Activity 3: "Pasta Sort"

• Guidelines for parents.



• Part 1. Exploring and organizing.
  
  Activity 1: "Important New Day"
  Activity 2: "Object Hide and Seek"
  Activity 3: "Explore-A-Toy"
  Activity 4: "I've Got to Get Organized"
  
  
• Part 2. Setting goals;
  thinking about strategies;
  making and carrying out a plan;
  evaluating and adjusting the plan.

  Activity 1: "I'm Puzzled"
  Activity 2: "Kitchen Capers"
  Activity 3: "Getting to Know You"
  Activity 4: "Home Theater"
  Activity 5: "Planned TV Watching (or, who's in control of this, anyway?)"

• Guidelines for parents.
  
  
• Part 1. Fanciful thinking.

  Activity 1: "Cloud Nine"
  Activity 2: "Play Time!"
  Activity 3: "If I Were...."
  Activity 4: "Make 'em and Bake 'em"
  Activity 5: "Blotter Blobs"
  

• Part 2. Making inferences and predictions.

  Activity 1: "What If....?"
  Activity 2: "Change the Story"

• Guidelines for parents.
  
  
• Part 1. Recognizing symbols.

  Activity 1: "Signs of the Times"

• Part 2. Creating symbols.

  Activity 1: "My Secret Language"
  Activity 2: "Symbols in My Home"

• Part 3. Using symbols.

  Activity 1: "Ready, Set, Read"
  Activity 2: "Family Fun"
  Activity 3: "Measure for Pleasure"
  Activity 4: "It's about Rhyme"
  Activity 5: "Because I Said So!"

• Guidelines for parents.
  
  
• Part 1. Main ideas.

  Activity 1: "You Tell Me Yours and I'll Tell You Mine"
  Activity 2: "Headlines"
  Activity 3: "TV Gab"



• Part 2. Principles and rules.

  Activity 1: "Rules for My Space"
  Activity 2: "The Rules of the Game"
  Activity 3: "It's the Principle of the Thing"

• Guidelines for parents.
  
  
• Part 1. Main ideas.

Activity 1: "Relax"
Activity 2: "Mirror, Mirror!"
Activity 3: "Red Light"
Activity 4: "First Say; Then Do"
Activity 5: "Listen up!"
Activity 6: "All the World's a Stage"
Activity 7: "When You're Happy and You Know It…"
Activity 8: "Taking Turns as Boss"

• Guidelines for parents.
  
  
• Part 1. Cause and effect thinking.

  Activity 1: "Me, Myself, and I"
  Activity 2: "We're Connected"
  Activity 3: "Finding the Source"

• Part 2. Family relationships.

  Activity 1: "Ritually Speaking"
  Activity 2: "Let Them Read History"