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#1 Most Important: Read Every Day!

They can read alone, with a sibling/friend, with other family members, to a pet; you can read to them (be a reading model!), or they can listen to a digital book.

Family Time Together/Life Skills: 

Playing board games 

Teaches strategy, critical thinking, counting, adding, subtraction, and positive sportsmanship

Board game suggestions (titles are links): Allowance (a pre-Monopoly game), Sum Swamp math game, Tic-Tac-Toe, Spelligator, Scrabble Jr, Tiny Dots, Checkers, Connect 4, Go Fish-make 10, Bananagrams, Mobi (math version of Bananagrams), Pictionary Jr, UNO, Yahtzee, Set, Dominoes, Twister (+ painters tape to write equations, sight words, spelling words, shapes, etc.), Zoom: post-it notes around the house-bring me X as fast as you can!

Outdoor games

Teach physical fitness, coordination, teamwork, strategy, competition, communication, and positive sportsmanship

Cooking with kids 

Teaches teamwork, planning, organization, measurements, fractions, multi-step instructions-teach them how to follow a recipe!

Chores together

Teach responsibility, teamwork, hygiene, and organization. Example: folding laundry teaches symmetry by matching sides and putting things away teaches sorting

Grocery shopping 

Teaches healthy food habits, making choices of need versus want, teamwork, and money values. -Don’t forget to have them help carry in the groceries and help put them away! This teaches them the importance of organization and strategy. Why do we keep certain things in the refrigerator or cupboard? Why are the pots and pans stored near the stove?

Caring for pets/animals

Teaches responsibility, thinking of the needs of others before themselves, and daily routine

*Kids love you! They want to help you! They are more capable than you may think. Just because they’re little or young doesn’t mean they can’t help, and often they want to! Show them how; do it together. You are your child's first teacher. You are their role model. What’s important to you will be important to them.