Together with your child, you will create a mini book to tell the story of your Getting Ready for Bed routine. Think together about your routine and how you can break the BIG task into SMALLER parts to make it easier.
Review the idea of problem decomposition.
Read Bedtime or another book about bedtime routines together. As you read, pause and identify the different things that happen in the book to get ready for bed.
Think together about what you do at home to get ready for bed – the BIG task. How can you break the BIG Task – bedtime – into SMALLER parts?
Show your child the different pictures of the SMALLER parts of the getting ready for bed routine. Explain that they will choose each picture that shows something they do when they are getting ready for bed.
[NOTE: If you do not have the printed pictures, you can make simple drawings of the different tasks (e.g., read a book, brush teeth) and then color them together.]
Once your child has chosen the images that show each step in their getting ready for bed book, they can glue the pictures into their mini book. Each page of the book will show a SMALLER part of their Getting Ready for Bed story (BIG task). When your child has glued (or drawn) each picture, invite them to color the book.
Read the book together! Encourage your child to tell the story of their Getting Ready for Bed book (BIG task) and notice all of the SMALLER tasks that are included. You may talk about how the SMALLER tasks make completing the BIG task easier.
Preschool Computational Thinking