Title I Program Washoe School District

Parent & Child

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Saturday

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Celebrate April Fools Day. Do something silly with your child.

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April is Math Education Month. Take time to review math with your child each day this month. Have a jump rope contest today. See how many jumps your child can do in a row.

Get two socks. Soak Ask your child to one in water and describe the most keep one dry. Let your beautiful place she has child tell you which ever seen. one is heavier. Ask why.

Listen to a piece of music that has no lyrics. Have your child write his own words to the song.

At the library, check out an audio book to listen to with your child.

Insert four Learn the sign toothpicks language alphabet. horizontally into a Use it to practice potato and set it on a spelling words today. glass of water. It should sprout in two weeks.

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Have your child Ask your child fill a tall container to tell you the with water. Pour it into three best things about a shorter container. herself. Does the quantity of water look different?

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Talk about Have your child honesty and why interview people it is so important. Find in various careers that examples of people who interest him. What demonstrate honesty. would a typical day be like? Have each Choose a recipe family member from another make a list of his or her country or culture. strengths. Read them Prepare it with your aloud. Add to each child. others lists. Make tonight a No TV night. Instead, have a family reading night. Read books aloud to your child.

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Create a family joke book. Write one or two jokes per page. Staple the pages together. Help your child figure out the perimeter and area of his bedroom.

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Give every letter of the alphabet a monetary value. A = 1, B = 2, etc. Which words are most valuable? Create an art gallery. Frame your childs artwork. Rotate the work on display frequently.

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Look through Discuss the magazines and meaning of a newspapers with your dozen and half a dozen. child for 90-degree What things are often angles. Create a collage sold in dozens? of these angles. Have a 20-minute D.E.A.R. time (Drop Everything And Read).

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Check on your childs grades. If necessary, help her raise them before the year ends. Let your family try eating with chopsticks tonight.

Find a new way to say I love youin sign language or in secret code.

Its the birthday of Samuel Morse. Send messages to each other in Morse Code.

Have your child lie down on the driveway or sidewalk. Trace her body with chalk. Let her decorate the drawing.

Have everyone Play a game of in the family charades with spend a hour picking your child. Use hand up the house. Many gestures and motions to hands make light work. describe your word.

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