Enjoy Fun Time With Your Family!

“Our teachers not only provide a safe and challenging academic environment at school, but also have many ideas for you to academically support your children at home. Below is list of some common games and activities that build skills that support academic growth. Over the holiday season spend some time with your children having fun and building skills for school.”

War:  Try having the person with the lowest number win or add two cards together and the largest (or smallest) sum (or difference) wins.

Go Fish:  Number recognition

Jigsaw Puzzles:  Spatial relations

Mancala:  Strategy

Sorry and Trouble:  1 to 1 correspondence and logical reasoning

Rack-O:  Place Value

Guess Who? :  Attributes and logical thinking

Yahtzee:  Addition and strategy

Dominoes:  Number sense

Memory:  Visualizing and holding a picture referent in your head

Uno:  Number recognition and logical thinking

Connect Four:  Sequencing, strategy, cause and effect

Hi Ho Cherry-O:  Fine motor and counting

Checkers:  Cause and effect

Operation:  Fine motor skills

Nesting Blocks:  Compare and contrast

Lacing Cards:  Fine Motor