Go! Go! Go! 停止! 

Cherise Mericle Harper 

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• Vehicle painting: this book is a perfect fit with one of my favorite activities. 涂一些红色, 黄色的, and green paint on plates, let your child drive cars and trucks through the paint and then on paper to make some cool art. 

• 玩红灯, Green Light: this game could get pretty cut-throat in elementary schools, but with younger children it is a great way to practice their self-control and ability to follow directions. Remember that their brains are not as fully developed as ours, so their response times will be slower. Try using a sign with green on one side and red on the other along with your voice and have your child run to you (or dance, wiggle or jump if you don’t have space to run) while you show the green “light” and stop when you show the red “light.” With older kids, you can add in a 黄色的 light and ask them to move slowly. 

• Sing “Blinking Traffic Lights”: Blinking, blinking traffic lights. On the corner, shining 明亮的. Green means go, red means stop, flashing 黄色的 very slow. Blinking, blinking traffic lights. On the corner, shining 明亮的. 

• Build a bridge: give your child different materials with which to build a bridge, and see if the bridge is strong enough to hold up their toy vehicles or animals. Toddlers can build bridges with blocks, and older children can try to make strong bridges with things like popsicle sticks, 杯, 吸管, 纸板管, pieces of flat cardboard, 和磁带. 

• Video of kids building with recycled materials:  http://www.peepandthebigwideworld.com/en/parents/activities/52/little-builders/ 

• Sing in opposites: you can sing “Make Some Music” (or any simple song) in opposite ways: high and low, 快与慢, 安静和大声. 

• Find the opposite: you can play a version of “eye spy” with opposites, where you find or name something big (wet, 明亮的, 大声, 等.) and ask your child to find or name something that has an opposite characteristic. 

• 相反的书籍: 停，走，是，不是!; 恐龙咆哮; 不，不，是的，是的 (and others by Patricelli); 对立,影响; 黑色的? 白色! 一天? 晚上! 

• Construction, traffic books: Little Blue 卡车 Leads the Way; 翻斗车的士; 我能读懂迹象Hoban还; 卡车,工作人员