Parents & Teachers as Partners™
Teaching with Household Routines
Educator Asks:
Can some creative parents offer ideas on how they teach academic skills, while engaging children in household routines?
Parent Answers:
I view every activity as a "teachable moment". My kids learn:
- math skills while sorting things that are alike and different as we fold laundry and set the table.
- literacy skills by using crayons or colored pencils to draw and write the family grocery list
- about reading as they draw new illustrations for favorite books and create new illustrated stories
- a sense of responsibility and math skills when we draw a family chore chart
- math skills and a sense of distance when they draw maps of our travel plans or street routes to their favorite places around town
- science concepts when they draw observations of plants and animals outside our window, including birds nests, foliage changes, and tracks found in snow.
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