Education: A Day of Winter Indoor Activities

A Day of Winter Indoor Activities

Written by Laura Bankston

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The homemade hot chocolate creates camaraderie and is just downright enjoyable on a cold day! Here's where we'll select our beverage recipe: http://www.kidsrecipeclub.com .

Some Energy burning - yes, I realize that repparttar hot chocolate has sugar that's going to escalate things :-), so we'll immeadiately do something very taxing!

We'll start with some jumping jacks. The kids love them and that helps with coordination too.

Then we'll do a "bear hunt" and walk around repparttar 109162 house doing movements for marching, swimming, climbing - hey, we'll probably go up and down repparttar 109163 stairs a few times too. That'll give me a nice workout!

And then, to cool down, we'll play a little tug of war with our puppy.

Some quite time - after our physical activity, we'll all sit down on repparttar 109164 sofa and I'll read to them.

Right now, we are reading two books. And, repparttar 109165 one I'm pretty sure they'll want to hear today is some more of "Where repparttar 109166 Red Fern Grows". I'm just dreading getting to repparttar 109167 end!!!

Some cooperative working together - it'll be getting close to dinner time by now. So, as a family, we'll set repparttar 109168 table and get everything ready to enjoy our heart-warming stew!

So, whether you follow or plan or create your own, winter indoor acitivies can be fun and educational without emptying your wallet or leaving you exhausted. Plan your own "shut-in" day.

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Teaching Preschool Color and Shapes with Family Games

Written by Laura Bankston

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I flipped over repparttar

first card and asked Maegan to go first. "Do you have a yellow card to put down?" "Yep," she answered and put down a yellow card on top of repparttar 109161

pile. Round and round we went, with Maegan putting down repparttar 109162

correct color on her turn all by herself. Then finally a turn came that she didn't have repparttar 109163

right color. "Do you have a card," I asked, pointing to repparttar 109164

large symbol in repparttar 109165

middle of

card, "that has a circle like this one?" While I still had my finger next to repparttar 109167

symbol, she went through each card, one a time. She carefully checked to see if she had a "match" - and when she found one, she put it down on top of repparttar 109168

pile. The game was a great success--especially since she won repparttar 109169

first round! "That's one point for repparttar 109170

team 'My Little Pony' (as she had named her team)," I congratulated her. She beamed with pride. She had won and she had done it all by herself. As I sat there admiring her accomplishment, I realized how easy it is to miss opportunities like this that are educational in nature. This game taught her taking turns, sorting, colors, and shapes. It's always a great asset as a home school parent to have one more way to help our kids learn and practice what they've been learning. So, "Uno away"!!

Laura Bankston is author of Internationally selling Cooking with Kids Curriculum: Homeschool Cooking in a Box and the Homeschool Cookbook. She currently home schools her three children, maintains home school support websites, and manages their family-owned service business. For information on her curriculum and free home school support services, please visit her website http://www.homeschoolcookbook.com

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