Follow the lines
How you can help at home: In this activity your child explores different kinds of lines.
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Shape Walk
How you can help at home: In this activity you and your child look for shapes outside.
Food fractions
Try these tasty and creative ways to review fractions with your child.
Map that house
How you can help at home: Practice beginning mapping skills with your first-grader by mapping your house onto graph paper.
Color and shape abstract art
How you can help at home: In this activity your child explores different shapes to create abstract art.
Numbers sense
How you can help at home: This number-sense game played with dice helps your first grader build math concepts such as greater than and less than.
Raising a financially savvy child
Our readers offer their advice about how to teach money management to children.
Raising a financially intelligent child: focus on allowances
The authors of The Financially Intelligent Parent recommend giving your child an allowance - but don't tie it to chores.
Don't let their brains melt
Avoid summer school (and summer brain drain) with a little e-learning.
The power of play
As children slog though grueling schedules of enrichment and academics, researchers have found a connection between brain development and the very thing kids are getting less of.
