During the month of February all you need is a bag of candy conversation hearts and you can fill up the hour doing many different activities with them…. MATH- add, subtract, greater than or less than, sorting by colors, graphing the different colors, estimate- fill a small glass jar with hearts and let them guess […]
Boys may not like lace and pretty pink paper, but they can still make their own Valentine’s Day cards. Stop by your local craft store or scrapbooking store and pick up some camouflage paper and try this…. 1. Cut a large heart from the camouflage paper and a smaller one from a lighter color paper
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Looking for some new books to read out loud to your kids?? Here are two good ones for you to try…. 1. PETER’S CHAIR, by Ezra Jack Keats- Peter is sad because his baby things are being given to his new sister. He hides his old chair before his parents can paint it pink. But
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Here’s an easy craft project that can be adapted to any age and can be done together… make a mosaic. Mosaics are usually created using small square tiles, but you can use different shapes, too. To create your project use small, brightly colored squares of paper. Squares cut from magazines can also be used to
Do you still read aloud with your child? Do you think they are too old for this? I encourage you to CONTINUE this practice of reading aloud to your child all throughout your relationship….here are just a few ways it helps! Reading aloud…. 1. Inspires writing 2. Expands vocabulary 3. Boosts comprehension 4. Improves listening
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Help your child create cards for soldiers and shut-ins. Talk to the kids about how happy the people will be to receive their special card. Bring in old Christmas cards and let the children cut them up to create new cards on bright colored cardstock or construction paper. Make sure to tell your child’s teacher
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Use Math Word Problems to help teach the real meaning of Christmas….here’s an example. My mentor and I made 24 cookies for the teachers at my school. I decided to make 12 more to give to my neighbors to show them kindness. How many cookies did I make in all? Vary these questions according to
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Practice grammar as you teach about the real meaning of Christmas with this simple idea. Make a BINGO board and work together to fill in boxes with different parts of speech….as a mentor be sure to include words that give a greater meaning to Christmas. For example…. Verbs– giving, caring, loving Adjectives-special Nouns- family As
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It’s the MOST WONDERFUL time of the year, and even though you are mentoring at a public school you can still help teach your child lessons about Christmas . While you can not come out and share the story of Jesus, you can teach them about giving, caring and loving others with a few simple
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Children’s writing can be hard to read sometimes because they SMASH their letters together. Here’s a trick to fix that…use an orange marker with a thin point for the spaghetti and brown markers with a thick point for the meatball. Model how you want the children to use their markers when they write letters and
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