Little Chickies Board Game

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Little Chickies Board Game

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About This Activity

Join the Little Chickies in this fun board game for the whole family, giving kids the perfect opportunity to strengthen their early math skills in English and Spanish.

Ages: 3+
Level: Medium
Materials: Printed activity sheets; scissors
Instructions

1. Print out activity sheet and follow the game instructions.
2. Practice addition with the three Little Chickies in this board game.
3. Try your superpower! Try and make your own board game at home, or take a favorite board game and play in Spanish!

How Your Kid Benefits

This activity stimulates early math understanding and numerical skills while introducing bilingual vocabulary.

Bonus Benefit!

A study found that bilingual people tended to be more adept than monolinguals at solving certain kinds of mental puzzles.

Note to Grown-Ups

This board game is a great way to introduce addition. While you don’t have to explicitly ask children to add, have them combine two numbers to make a bigger number. For example, “You are on square 10 and you have to move up 4, what square are you on now?”

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Color Bingo!

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Color Bingo!

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About This Activity

Play bingo with a Canticos twist and learn color vocabulary in English and Spanish. Complete with chips and sheets, this activity is a great way to bring family and friends together to learn through play.

Ages: 3+
Level:
Medium
Materials: Printed activity sheets; pencils; crayons or colored pencils
Instructions

1. Print out activity sheet.
2. Learn all the different colors in English and Spanish with our Color Bingo Game, following the instructions written on the sheet.
3. Try your superpower! See if you can find those same colors on your own in a scavenger hunt at the grocery store.

How Your Kid Benefits

This activity gives kids the opportunity for oral vocabulary practice, in addition to word recognition and association.

Bonus Benefit!

Evidence from a number of studies suggests that bilingualism improves the brain’s executive function — a command system that directs the processes that we use for planning, solving problems and performing various other mentally demanding tasks.

Note to Grown-Ups

This activity encourage children to say new vocabulary words in a fun, low-pressure way. Have them say the color words out loud as often as possible, especially while playing the bingo game. Check out the De Colores / All the Colors in the Book section of the Canticos App for more practice.

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Little Chickies Memory Game

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Little Chickies Memory Game

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About This Activity

Test you memory with the Little Chickies! Fun for the whole family, this game helps kids learn essential household vocabulary in English and Spanish with beautifully illustrated memory cards.

Ages: 3+
Level: Medium
Materials: Printed activity sheets; pencils; crayons or colored pencils
Instructions

1. Print out activity sheet.
2. Play our memory game with household objects and learn vocabulary in English and Spanish.
3. Try your superpower! Play I Spy / Yo Veo around the house by describing what you see. Be sure to use color, number and shape words in Spanish to help you play.

How Your Kid Benefits

This activity helps kids utilize their short term memory to retain bilingual vocabulary, expanding their foundation in early bilingual literacy.

Bonus Benefit!

A study determined that bilingual people were more resistant than others to the onset of dementia and other symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease: the higher the degree of bilingualism, the later the age of onset.

Note to Grown-Ups

See if your children can apply their new household vocabulary during cleanup time! Watch and sing along with the Canticos video Choppity Chop / ¡Pícalo ya! in the Canticos App to help with household words.

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Little Chickies Memory Game

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