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The pool is great for gross motor skills. We can also play around with math and science: physics, solid/liquid/gas, and basic addition, subtraction and multiplication based on a 25-meter pool. Buying snacks and getting change at the snack bar also reinforces math and money skills.[b] Yes, but the reality the vast majority of parents will not do anything but take their kid to the pool and then hang out with other parents or read their phone/ipad/book, etc. Snack bar - blindly had the kid money and ask for change, kid brings back change - doesn't even count it or look at it before heading off to eat snack with parents.[/b]

Sidewalk chalk is good for fine motor. We can read about sharks and draw a life-sized one, using the tape measure to talk about units of distance. Little guy can work on letter/number recognition while I play Hangman with the bigger one or help him figure out what 194,280,345,622 minus 187,884,203,117 is.  [b]Sidewalk chalk is fun but get real other that possibly playing hangman or tic-tac-toe there are not many other activities parents are going to actively engage in.[/b]

Cooking and baking are terrific activities to practice sequencing, fractions, and reading the recipes, plus social issues like sharing and turn-taking. We can make foods from different countries and talk about similarities/differences.  [b]Tacos and pizzas - that's great if your kid is into cooking - mine couldn't care less....[/b]

Digging for worms lets us talk about environmental science: the food chain, pollutants, diversity. We can measure our captives, graph them, read about them, draw pictures of them and even see whether they prefer the tomato plants to a pile of dead leaves.  [b]Being realistic again, your kids don't care about graphing them or reading about them. They want to figure out new ways to make them squirm.  They also don't want to listen to some lecture on the food chain, etc.
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I'm still not buying any of your workbooks.[/quote][/quote]

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