Don't let the weekly food shop become a chore...involve your children - even the youngest.
Firstly ask them to make the shopping list. If they can't write get them to cut and stick pictures from supermarket leaflets - even your youngest may struggle with scissors. That's ok, get them to rip the pictures out. When they are making the list encourage them to hear and make the sounds in the food words.
Next, go shopping! As you go around the supermarket encourage your children to read the labels, prices, quantities etc. Even using manners at the till :)
Please let me know how you get on - not only does this activity encourage communication, language and literacy but think of the mathematics development when using money and quantities...even discuss where in the world the products have come from. Have fun :-)
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