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Thanksgiving creates a perfect opportunity for parents to spend quality time with their kids while teaching them how to reflect on what’s important and express their gratitude. Last month, we discussed wholesome ways to celebrate Halloween by creating sustainable, DIY costumes. This month, let’s continue to explore ways to create fun, fall decorations and crafts by reusing materials found around the house. 

Keep reading to find Thanksgiving-inspired DIY ideas to craft with your kids this November.

An essential life skill that children are learning in 1st grade are concepts around and involving time. Learning to tell time at a young age has many benefits. Mastering this skill can help children develop a sense of responsibility, enhance cognitive development, and support academic growth.  It also builds foundational math and cognitive abilities and fosters independence for children in 1st grade and further. Today’s knowledge boost includes opportunities for students to explore the hour and minute hands on a clock, reading time on a clock to the hour and half, as well as looking at a digital and analog clock. 

As a child grows, it is important to foster their curiosity of the world around them. The sun, moon, and stars are a topic of extreme interest for students in 1st grade. Building a strong foundation of knowledge about  the main parts of our solar system can develop a sense of wonder about the universe and their place within it,  as well as inspire future interest in the STEM fields. Mastering these concepts will also build a strong foundation for more complex topics. Today’s daily knowledge boost allows children to explore and gain knowledge about the sun, moon, and stars! 

This Halloween, we’re sharing ideas on how to celebrate with your little learners in a more wholesome way. Make a paradigm shift by thinking about what you would like your children to learn and remember about your Halloween traditions. Join us as we discuss simple fixes, such as moving away from expensive, pre-made costumes, embracing traditions from across the globe, and getting more involved in the community to make it a holiday your family can bond over. 

 As a child enters Kindergarten, they are at an age where they are starting to notice the world around them more. An important skill in Kindergarten children  will need to develop by observing their environment is the ability to recognize different types of weather. When a child has the ability to understand the weather types, they will hone their critical thinking skills,explore  scientific methods at a beginning level, and learn what  safety precautions and measures to possibly take with certain weather.  Today’s daily boost includes lessons where children will identify different types of weather, sort weather types, explore severe weather and climate. 

We’re happy to announce the release of our popular math and English games for preschoolers and K-3 students in Kids Academy’s Online Classroom! A big selection of professionally designed learning games from our Talented and Gifted app is now proudly taking its place on the shelves of the virtual Classroom’s Library of Resources.

Let’s have a quick look at all the types of games teachers can now add to their custom-made instant Classrooms and share with their students:

From Mexico’s Día de Los Muertos to China’s Teng Chieh Lantern Festival, cultures around the world commonly recognize a celebration in honor of the dead. In America, that holiday is best known as Halloween, and while it’s not a federally recognized holiday that results in a day off from school, it is a much-loved celebration that both kids and adults look forward to during the entire month of October.  

Like many holidays, Halloween has evolved from ancient pagan customs, with this one originating in Ireland long ago. Samhain was a Gaelic religious festival that celebrated the end of the harvest season and to mark the beginning of winter.  

By the end of Kindergarten, one goal is for children to be able to identify shapes around them in the world. Not only will children learn to identify shapes, they will be able to sort and make all different types of shapes. Today’s daily knowledge boost allows children to practice the skills of  recognizing  shapes, creating shapes, counting sides and corners in shapes, and  identifying 2D or 3D shapes.

Is your little one fascinated by dinosaurs? Well, they're not alone! Most kids find these creatures awe-inspiring, and we can totally see why. Dinosaurs roamed the Earth millions of years before us, yet we never got to see them firsthand. All we know about their shape and size is from fossils and bones we dug out from the ground. 

So let’s join in on the dinosaur excitement with these 6 rawrsome DIY activities for your dino-loving kids to enjoy!

An easy way to boost early learning is to practice matching and sorting objects and images by shape, size, color, and more! The best part is that matching and sorting is fun! It feels more like a game, which is so important for young children who learn best through play. 

Kids Academy offers several lessons in different subjects that practice this important skill. All activities featured below can also be found on the interactive Classroom interface. While lessons with more than three activities are only available in Classroom Pro, all activities below can be found on the Kids Academy Website and completed using a web browser.