- Winter break can be a time for curious learning.
- Parents can use simple everyday tasks at home.
- Children can help with baking and measuring ingredients.
- Measure and time baking steps to learn units.
- Watch how day length changes in winter.
- Make small budgets for shopping to practise math.
- Learn to identify trees by winter features outside.
- Practice short phrases from other languages each day.
- Let children plan simple meals or short trips.
- Give small rewards when they solve real problems.
Difficult words
- curious — wanting to learn and ask questions
- ingredient — a food item used in a recipeingredients
- measure — find the size, amount, or timemeasuring
- unit — a standard amount for measuringunits
- budget — a plan for how to use moneybudgets
- identify — to find and name something
- feature — a part or quality of somethingfeatures
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Discussion questions
- Which simple task at home could help learning?
- What short phrase from another language would you like to practise?
- Would you like to plan a simple meal or a short trip?
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