Tips And Advices - Reinforce Your Child's Learning at Home

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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