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Set aside time today Post a new to work on craft vocabulary word projects with your and its definition on child. Perhaps he can the bathroom mirror. give these as gifts. Change it every three or four days. Plan an indoor camp-out. Make a tent from a blanket. Eat smores and read scary stories.

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Plan a No TV evening. Read or play games instead.

Look in the newspaper for a list of holiday events. Plan to attend one this month.

Talk with your child about a choice youve made. Talk about the consequences.

Read something in the newspaper with your child today.

List animals your child loves. If your child could have any animal as a pet, which would it be? Why?

Do the holidays have you feeling hassled? Share the responsibility. As kids help, they appreciate holidays even more.

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Listen to a new kind of music with your child. Talk about how it makes you feel. Choose a number, then have your child list all the things he can think of that come in that number.

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Draw or paint blindfolded as one person directs the other.

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Many people celebrate holidays in December. What holidays can your child name? Talk about why they are special. Recreate a favorite holiday tradition from your own childhood. Share it with your child. Take a walk with your child. Look for things you only see in December. For example, holiday decorations and lights.

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You can build responsibility by giving your child a small plant to take care of. Put her in charge of the watering schedule. Talk to your child about the importance of writing thank-you notes for gifts.

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What is the coldest place in the nation today? The warmest? Whats the difference between the two temperatures?

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Put a leafy stalk of celery into colored water. Watch the color rise into the stalk over the next week.

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Bake cookies with your child. If youre doubling a recipe, have your child do the math. Have your child write and mail a letter to a friend. Tell your child you love him.

Talk about how animals survive the winter months. What do bears do? How about birds? Tell your child three things that you love about her. Have her tell you three things that she loves about you.

Tonight is the Have a family longest night of sing-along. the year. Give everyone Ask family members in the family a flashto share their favorite light and read in bed. songs. Talk with your child about the very best present she ever received. What made it special? Let your child invite a friend over. Pop popcorn or create ice cream sundaes.

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Try fun ways to practice writing.

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Help your child create a time line of the last year.

Talk about your childs favorite winter activity; then do it together.

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Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

make the di erence!

Saturday

January
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Watch television With your child, together. Encourage learn how to count your child to be a to 10 in at least three critical viewer by different languages. asking her questions.

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Help your child set a goal and write a plan to achieve it this year.

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Encourage your Model good table Plan to spend child to start a diary manners for your some one-on-one or journal this year. child. Say, Please pass time with your child the bread, and Thank this month. Write the you very much. appointment on your calendar.

Take the whole family to the library. Be sure everyone gets some books.

If you dont have Allow a few minutes When your time to read to your after the light is off child comes child at night, read in at bedtime for quiet home, have him draw the morning. Its a real conversation with your what happened in power breakfast. child. school. Then talk about it.

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Does your child Ask your child have homework to help you to do over the weekend? organize something, Make sure she schedules such as a closet. time to complete it. Watch a TV show with the sound muted. Ask family members to make up the dialogue.

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The first public radio broadcast was on this date in 1910. Instead of watching TV tonight, listen to the radio. Encourage your child to sort her books by subject. She can use the librarys system or invent her own.

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Play the I Spy Ask your child game. Say I spy to tell you about something orange. Let the nicest thing a friend your child guess what it has ever done for her. is. Then its his turn to spy something. Read a story to Give your child your child. Later a measuring ask him to retell it to tape. Ask her to you from memory. measure and record the dimensions of objects in your house.

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Pick a category. Ask your child to pick a letter. How many items from the category begin with that letter?

Ask your child if he ever had a dream that really scared him? What was it about?

Look for ways to involve your child in your hobbies. For example, if you are a runner, take your child for a short jog.

Discuss ways Let your child that different help with a farm animals help us. household chore today. For example: Cows Remember to thank give us milk; sheep give him when he finishes. us wool. Watch the news on TV with your child. Choose one story and compare it with the newspaper story. Make today dictionary day. Talk with your child about new words that he thinks should be in the dictionary.

Some time Play a game today, exchange that uses math notes instead of talking. skills. You might try (This also works when Monopoly or Go things get noisy!) Fish.

Its the birthday Teach your Have your of W.A. Mozart. child how to sew child rank her Listen to some classical on a button today. homework assignments music with your child. from easiest to hardest. Have her do the hardest one first.

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Take your child to a playground or park. Encourage her to swing, climb and use the slide.

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Start a chain of hearts. Cut out small hearts. Each day, write a reason you love your child on one and attach it to the chain.

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Its National Cherry Month and Great American Pie Month. Celebrate by baking a cherry pie with your child. Tuck a Valentine in your childs lunch every day next week. Write a special I love you message on each.

Make a bookmark. On a piece of thin cardboard, have your child draw a scene or write a quotation from a book.

Tell your child we learn when we try new things. Today, try a new food or take a new route home.

Be creative in the Read a story to Have your child kitchen. See who your child and use a write a Valentines can invent the greatest- different voice for each message to someone tasting new pizza character. who is sick or lonely. topping. Mail it to that person.

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Set aside time today to work on a hobby with your child.

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Its the Ask your child birthday of if she has ever Thomas Edison. Teach been bullied in school. your child that he said: If she has, be sure to Theres no substitute alert the school. for hard work. Make a crossword puzzle with your child to review spelling words.

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After your child Tell and show goes to bed, family members leave a Valentine where that you love them. hell see it first thing tomorrow morning. Talk to your child about people she admires. Ask her why she admires them.

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Let your child pick out an unfamiliar vegetable at the grocery store. Find a recipe and give it a try!

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Dissolve some salt and water in a glass. Watch for a few days. Talk about what happens. Go to the library and check out two books with your child. Check out some books for yourself, too!

Encourage your child to write a thank-you to a favorite teacher this month.

In 1473, Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus was born. Ask your child to draw a picture of the solar system.

On a map, have Its the your child find birthday of the country from which George Washington. your ancestors came. How many facts can your child list about this famous president?

Look through the house. Ask your child to make a list of everything that comes from plants.

At bedtime Have your child tonight, tell write a poem or your child a story about story from the point of yourself when you were view of a family pet. his age.

Have your child Put on music read to you as and spend 15 youre cleaning up after minutes drawing or supper. Or read to your writing with your child. child as she cleans up! Let the music be your inspiration.

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