Fun and Learning at Home

Here’s a couple of activities we’ve had fun with at school that you can do as a family at home:

Build Hand-Eye Coordination

Simple outdoor games can improve your youngster’s hand-eye coordination for writing, drawing, and using scissors. Try these three:

1. Play catch with increasingly smaller balls (beach ball, soccer ball, softball, tennis ball). Or have your child throw balls into goals of different sizes (laundry basket, large box).
2. Make a ring toss game. Cut the centers out of paper plates, and let the children toss the rings onto water bottles. Make the challenge more difficult by having her take a giant step backward after each successful toss.
3. Fill two spray bottles with water, and ask your child to draw two circles on the sidewalk with sidewalk chalk. Race to see who can soak a circle first.

The “Apples and Bananas” Song

I like to eat, eat, eat apples and bananas
I like to eat, eat, eat apples and bananas

I like to ate, ate, ate ay-ples and ba-nay-nays
I like to ate, ate, ate ay-ples and ba-nay-nays

I like to eat, eat, eat ee-ples and bee-nee-nees
I like to eat, eat, eat ee-ples and bee-nee-nees

I like to ite, ite, ite i-ples and by-ny-nys
I like to ite, ite, ite i-ples and by-ny-nys

I like to ote, ote, ote oh-ples and bo-no-nos
I like to ote, ote, ote oh-ples and bo-no-nos

I like to oot, oot, oot oo-ples and boo-noo-noos
I like to oot, oot, oot oo-ples and boo-noo-noos