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Buy some play money. Talk about pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters. A penny is 1 cent, a nickel is 5 cents (etc.) Ask how many pennies are in a nickel. How many in a dime? How many coins make 12 cents, 13 cents (etc.)?
Review shapes with your child …have a shape of week, number/letter of day, color of day, shape of day.
Get a children's magazine and read stories, do activities with your child. Help your child direct a play with neighborhood friends. http://www.parentinginformation.org/booksboxes.htm
Hug your child, pray with your child at night, go on walks in woods with your child. Go to pool with your child. Love them and take time for them. They grow up quickly. My youngest is going into 10th grade!
Get Your Child Ready for School, From U.S. Dept. of Education: http://readyweb.crc.uiuc.edu/library/1992/getready/getready.html
Caroline Shaw holds a B.S. degree from Duquesne University in Secondary Education, English. She is mom to six children,editor and publisher of the Online Magazine,"AMomsLove.com" Each issue contains informative articles for WAHMs,single moms, working moms, and more. She lives with her husband, three "still at home" children, a collie and three kitties in Western Pennsylvania. Her hobbies are writing, cooking, gardening, decorating and crafts.