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Ways to Help with Handwriting:

Kids aren't able to write well until they have developed good fine-motor skills. Fortunately, these skills improve easily with lots of practice. The following activities can help your young child develop the precision, balance, and hand-eye coordination that are needed to perform the fine-motor skills used in handwriting:
1. Give your child clay or play-dough to play with to strengthen the major muscles used in handwriting.
2. Ask your child to sort collections of loose coins into stacks of pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters.

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10 Ways to Help Your Child Tackle His Homework

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school.familyeducation.com These homework help tips on organization will teach your child to develop good study habits.

Funny Number Jokes for Kids:

Why do golfers carry a spare pair of socks?

In case they get a hole in one.

Black History Month Facts

Who Started Black History Month?
It was Dr Carter Woodson who started the 'Negro History Week' to focus people's attention and bring to their notice the role and contribution of African-Americans in the American history. Dr Woodson was an African-American who completed his PhD from Harvard. He found the need to become the voice of African-Americans who were wrongly represented and treated in early times. He founded the 'Association for the Study of Negro Life and History' in 1915, which is now known as Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History.
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buzzle.com February is celebrated as the Black history month in the United States. Following facts should help you know more on the achievements of the African-American population.

Best Free Educational Apps for Toddlers and Preschoolers - FamilyEducation.com

Educational Apps for Kids:

Toddler Teasers Shapes

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Ages 2 & up
For iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch

Colorful shapes, sticker rewards, and encouraging audio all combine to make this a perfect app for your preschooler to learn her shapes. It focuses on positive reinforcement, and even wrong answers reinforce learning by speaking the answer she touched and then asking for the right answer.

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fun.familyeducation.com Check out our top picks for the best free and educational mobile apps for toddlers and preschoolers.

Fun Brain Teasers:

What word looks the same backwards and upside down?

Answer: SWIMS

Funny Number Jokes for Kids:

Why didn't the two 4's feel like dinner?

Because they already 8.

Ideas for Better Bag Lunches

Kids get bored with the same old sandwiches from September through June. Find some new lunch ideas that will make your child ravenous and his classmates envious!

One alternative to boring sandwiches is crackers and cheese. Cut deli meat into cracker-sized pieces and apples into slivers. Turkey, cheese, and apple are a tasty combination, and kids will enjoy assembling it on a cracker.