Family Send-Home: Family News
Early Childhood Today
Instructions for parents on making a family bulletin board with their children are presented.

Send-Home Activities: Ideas to Help Families Support Abstract Thinking
Early Childhood Today | 3/2004
Clements and Sarama describe how to help children develop abstract-thinking skills through classroom math activities. For more information, see the related main article, Building Abstract Thinking Through Math, linked to this page.

Family Send-Home: We've Got Rhythm!
Early Childhood Today
Move to your own beat with homemade noisemakers in this family send-home for mixed ages.

Send-Home Activities: Ideas for Encouraging Math and Science Experiences
Early Childhood Today | 1/2006
In today's early childhood programs, there is a growing emphasis on skill-building. Families can become willing partners in providing developmentally appropriate math and science experiences at home. Read up on ways to partner with families.

Send-Home Activities: Ideas for Math Play
Early Childhood Today | 1/2005
Here are some activities parents can try at home to support math learning.

Send-Home Activities: Math around the House
Early Childhood Today | 10/2006
Here are some suggestions you can pass on to parents to help them introduce math learning all around the house.

Send-Home Activities: The Rhyming Book Game!
Early Childhood Today
Making an amusing book of rhymes with your child can help spur his creativity and strengthen his reading skills all at the same time. Use the following activity to help him showcase his rhyming talents, and have a lot of fun doing it!

Send Home Activities: Make a Silly Flip Story
Early Childhood Today
Here's a project a parent and child can do together to improve the ability and desire to read, while having some silly, creative fun!

Making Lemonade: Send Home Activities
Early Childhood Today | 4/2006
Teachers suggest that parents do this activity plan with their children at home on a spring day. Kids learn motor skills, and math skills like measuring, by making the lemonade recipe.

Send Home Activities: Green, Green Grass
Early Childhood Today
An activity plan for teachers to give to parents who want to explore science with their child.

Send Home Activities: Magnificent Magnification
Early Childhood Today | 4/2007
Young and Smith offer ready-to-use teaching ideas in science, for five- and six-year olds, in this issue of scholastic early childhood today.

Family Send-Home: Shadow Puppets
Early Childhood Today
With a cardboard box, waxed paper, straws, a flashlight and a little imagination, your child can put on a Shadow Puppet show at home.