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Learning Tip: Preparedness plan
Establish routines and emphasize the importance of being prepared.
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Learning Tip: Everyday Antics
Why walk when you can skip, hop or slide? Make ordinary activities, like walking to the car, more fun and & challenging.
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Learning Tip: Friendly contemplation
Help your child think about what friendship is and why she has chosen the friends she has.
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Learning Tip: Keep peer pressure at bay with role play
Prepare your child for difficult real-life situations before they happen.
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Learning Tip: Chore Jar
Make chores more bearable by adding an element of chance.
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Learning Tip: What to wear
Help your child develop autonomy and sense of self.
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Learning Tip: Encourage independence
Making her own simple meals or snacks makes your child feel responsible and accomplished.
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Learning Tip: Supermarket sort
Supermarkets can be educational places, full of learning games to play with your child.
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Learning Tip: Visual memory
Sharpen your child's memory with this anytime, anywhere game that can be played daily.
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Learning Tip: Name that tune
Use your child’s love of music to play the classic guessing game.
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Learning Tip: Audio travel log
Bring an audio recorder on long trips for your child to log the travel experience.
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Learning Tip: Supermarket storytelling
Nurture logic and creativity in your child at the supermarket.
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Learning Tip: Coupon match
Help your child to sharpen her memory skills on your next trip to the supermarket.
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Learning Tip: Veggie Outing
The farmers' market is the perfect place to nurture healthy food habits.
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Learning Tip: Brainstorming--It Takes Teamwork
Stumped for a solution? Try brainstorming as a family.
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Learning Tip: For Art's Sake
Turn your kids on to the arts. It's an exposure to creative, flexible, and nonlinear thinking.
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Learning Tip: Explore the Museum
Tired of the old routine? Take an educational excursion to your museum with these tips for keeping it fun.
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Learning Tip: Winning Strategies
When you play games with your child, should you let him win?
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Learning Tip: Can I Have a Word with You, Dad?
The Nation's Report Card shows a persistent gap between boys and girls in reading skills. Dads, you can help.
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Learning Tip: Crayons and Creativity
A blank page, a handful of crayons, and a great idea are all you need to get started on the creative path.
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Learning Tip: Design Your Own
To nurture the creative spirit, encourage your child to solve problems by looking at them from a new point of view.
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Learning Tip: Word hunt
Give your child practice with word and letter recognition.
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Learning Tip: Edible ABCs
Shaping cookie dough into the letters of the alphabet gives your child practice learning letters.
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Learning Tip: Red letter day
Challenge your child to discover how many ways she can use or identify the assigned letter of the day.
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Learning Tip: Somewhere over the rainbow
Stretch your child's vocabulary and his acquaintance with colors with a simple box of crayons.
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Learning Tip: Keep a picture journal
Encourage your child to keep a journal in words or drawings to express feelings.
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Learning Tip: Writing that informs
Show your child how reading and writing are useful in everyday life.
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Learning Tip: Keep books in the home
Show your child that books and reading are important.
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Learning Tip: Happy as Kings
Help your child find his inner storyteller by stretching his imagination.
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Activity: Word Fun
Here are a couple of word games kids and grown-ups can play anywhere!
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Learning Tip: Sound Swap
Play a verbal word game with your child to improve her reading and spelling skills.
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Learning Tip: It's All In Your Head
Read simple chapter books to your child so he can create the pictures in his head.
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Learning Tip: Teach Your Child to Open Up
Encourage a quiet child to open up to practice listening and speaking skills.
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Learning Tip: Sing out!
Use songs to help your child learn to count backwards and forwards.
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Learning Tip: Toy ordering
Incorporate ordering and sequencing into daily routines to prepare your child for addition and subtraction.
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Learning Tip: Setting the table
Establish early number sense and one-to-one correspondence.
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Learning Tip: Number safari
Challenge your child’s number sense by embarking on a number safari.
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Learning Tip: One, two, buckle my shoe
Mother Goose and other collections of nursery rhymes are rich resources for math literacy.
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Learning Tip: Constancy
Help your child grasp the difficult concept that the number of things does not change if they are rearranged.
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Learning Tip: Take a number
Your child can practice number recognition on a shopping trip.
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Learning Tip: Measuring sous chef
Cooking is a great way for your child to become familiar with units of measure.
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Learning Tip: Money lessons
Encourage budgeting by helping your child see where their money goes.
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Learning Tip: Nuts and bolts
Compare prices at a hardware store to teach money sense.
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Learning Tip: A new look at vegetables
Introduce a new perspective on vegetables that makes them seem like an earned treat.
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Learning Tip: Frozen peas
Use frozen peas to cool down hot soups and add nutrition.
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Learning Tip: Bubbles of fun
Persuade a reluctant bather by adding an element of fun to bath time.
