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**You can do any of these learning activities at home.**


Math is all around us! Here are a few activites that you can do easily !

 * 1) ===Play Addition Top It with a deck of playing cards. This is a game your child should be familiar with from Every Day Math at school. Remove from the deck the Jack, Queen and King. Shuffle the cards and place them in the center of the table. Each player draws two cards and adds them up. The player with the greatest sum gets to take all the cards. Continue to do that until all the cards are gone. If there is a tie draw two additional cards and the player who now has the greater sum wins all 8 cards! The player with the most cards at the end is the winner!===
 * 2) ===You can play this as a subtraction game as well, just subtract the two numbers to see who has the smaller total.===
 * 3) ===You can play the same type of game with two number cubes or dice.===
 * 4) ===Practice counting spare change.===
 * 5) ===Ask your child what time it is using an analog clock.===
 * 6) ===Find shapes all around you. Ask them to identify the shapes they see.===
 * 7) ===Practice skip counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s. Remember you don't have to start at 0! See if your child can skip count by 10 starting at number 3. What would the next number be? 3, 13, 23, 33, 43... You can do this all the time when you have a few minutes.===
 * 8) ===Write a number on a piece of paper or in the sand while at the beach. Ask your child to read it to you. Start with numbers in the tens then move to the hundreds and even thousands.===
 * 9) ===Ask your child if they can write the number words.===
 * 10) ===Using stuffed animals see if your child can use the Ordinal numbers (first, second, third) to pick them out. Which animal is in fourth place? The dog is in which place?===

While you and your child are reading books at home, ask them a few questions to work on comprehension skills. Questions like:

 * === What was your favorite part? Why? ===
 * === Who is your favorite character? Why? ===
 * === What happened first in the story? What happened in the middle? How did the story end? ===
 * === What is the problem in the story? ===
 * === Make predictions about what will happen next. ===
 * === How was the problem in the story solved? ===
 * === Why do you thing the author wrote this story? ===

== Writing doesn't have to be a dreaded activity. Write about things you have done. Pictures are a great tool to help your child remember things they have done. A scrapbook or journal could be a great FAMILY activity that everyone could contribute to! So the next time you are looking for something to do pull out your pictures and paper and start writing! ==