Help-at-Home Activities
March
Help your child draw a March calendar. Mark off each day together.
Have your child name words which begin with each letter in MARCH.
Help your child look up three new words in the dictionary.
Go to the library. Check out books about the wind,clouds,spring weather, etc.
Take time to look up. Find clouds that resemble objects or shapes.
Start a story about clouds. Let your child finish the story.
Have your child cut out weather words from the newspaper.
Have your child write a poem about windy weather.
Buy a kite for your child. Add string and fly!
Bake a square cake. Turn as a rhombus(diamond) shape.
Decorate as a kite. Make a paper kite tail to put by the cake.
Have your child list the green things in the house.
Have your child cut out "gr" words from the newspaper.
Have your child pick clovers. Help tie them together for a necklace.
Have your child pick a baggie full of clovers. Play clover math. Example; 2 clovers times 8 clovers
Have your child tell a story about a leprechaun.
Have your child make new words from the letters in LEPRECHAUN.
Have your child make green placemats for ST. Patrick's Day.
Have your child read aloud to you.
Read a story to your child. Have your child retell the story in his/her own words.
Watch a TV show together. Let your child plan and prepare the snacks.
Take a first-day-of-spring walk together.
Have your child find spring ads in the newspaper.
Go shopping for flower seeds.
Plant several flower seeds in a paper cup. Place soil in 1/3 of the cup. Press seeds in soil. Water. Place in kitchen window.
Have your child make a plant marker(toothpick and paper). Place in soil.
Discuss differences in winter and spring clothing.
Have your child write a springtime poem.
Collect wildflowers with your child. Cover with plastic wrap and press in heavy book.
Turn on a lawn sprinkler. Have your child stand between the sun and the water to see a rainbow.
Have your child write a poem about a rainbow.
Have your child draw or paint a rainbow.