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Math games for young kids
Four fun ways to improve your child's math skills.
Laundry sort
How you can help at home: Make doing laundry with your child fun and educational!
Math activity: Number sense
How you can help at home: This number-sense game played with dice helps your first grader build math concepts such as greater than and less than.
Act like an architect: Draw your bedroom
How you can help at home: In this math activity, your child draws his bedroom to scale.
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Activity: Food fractions
Try these tasty and creative ways to review fractions with your child.
Activity: Does it sink or float?
Have your child test objects in water to see if they sink or float.
Activity: Speed spelling
How you can help at home: Try this fun word-building activity that the whole family can play.
Activity: Keeping a journal
How You can help at home: Have your child keep a journal and build reading and writing skills.
Activity: Accordion book fun
How you can help at home: Make a homemade book with your child and build his reading and writing skills.
Activity: Let music be their muse
How you can help at home: Your first-grader listens to music and then draws a picture that illustrates how the music makes her feel.
Activity: Create a mummy
How you can help at home: Make shawabtis, small mummy-like statues, to introduce your child to the art of ancient Egypt.
Activity: Create a noisemaker
How you can help at home: This easy-to-make noisemaker reinforces the science skills of observation.
Activity: Travel games for the road
From counting cows to tracking miles, here's a collection of travel games to keep the whole family happy on your next vacation.
Activity: Make a reading tree
How you can help at home: In this activity your child records books she has read on a reading tree.
Activity: Jumping raisins
Let this simple science experiment inspire your child to hone her powers of scientific observation.
Activity: Develop a mental image
How you can help at home: Have your child make a mental image of a passage that has been read aloud.
Activity: Make a self-portrait
How you can help at home: Making a self-portrait is an engaging art project for your child.
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