Don't just ask, "What did you do in school today?" Dive deeper. Ask "Tell me about it." Encourage them to explain their assignments. They will be reviewing the lesson and you will know what they are learning in school. Show your child how their schoolwork applies to their lives.
A good project that teaches your child how to follow through with something. Each night for a week (or once or twice a week for a month), Give your child a few pieces of paper. Have him draw a picture and write a sentence. At the end of the week have them put their pages together and see if you can make a story book This is a good activity for a group of children. Each child would make one or two pages of their own then together they can develop a story using all the pages together. Younger children can each draw an animal and cut them apart. Each child putting a part together with the rest. One head, one body, various limbs. The combination animals are very funny, but the most fun of all is naming the animal you have created. ( a monkeypotamus!)
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