How to Reinforce Your Child's Learning at Home

Show your child that learning can be fun. Here are a few real-life ways to do it.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Children's Books
• Journals
• Maps
• Notebook Papers
• Puzzle Of The United States
• Science Kits
• Maps

1. Teach reading and writing by using vacations as a learning experience. Have younger children read road signs, and encourage older children to keep a travel journal.

2. Enlist your child's help in writing cards and greetings during holidays.

3. Ask your child to read at least 30 minutes a day, and encourage him to keep a daily diary or journal.

4. Sharpen your child's math skills while you shop - teach your child to compare values and bargains and to add up prices.

5. Take your child to a baseball game and teach him about batting averages and other statistics.

6. Bring your child into the kitchen and ask him to help you measure ingredients for cooking.

7. Use items around the house - cans, boxes, books - to teach younger children about geometry.

8. Expand your child's horizons with history and geography - for instance, construct a family tree with him, using your family history as an example of how history connects us with the past. Read about historical events in an encyclopedia.

9. Give your child a puzzle of the United States to work on at home, or have him follow a map on family trips.

10. Introduce your child to the world of science by having him observe and record details about the environment, such as the variety of plants and insects in the front yard, and by buying science kits.

11. Take your child to a science museum, especially one with lots of hands-on activities.

12. Have your child observe the properties of water: freezing, melting, boiling, evaporating and condensing.

[eduteachlady4u]

on 7/30/2009 Great information! It is always good to reflect back on what a child has learned.

[GLeeBourquin]

on 10/21/2008 It's also good to ask a lot of questions, and encourage them also. A curious child will yearn to learn

on 11/22/2005 many times we are in hurry or busy in some activity and children come up with some questions.I ask my child to jot down the questions and once/twice a week we sit on the internet try to find the answers through Google. I find I too learn a lot in the process...!!