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Families Can Help Build 21st Century Skills too!
10 ways Families can help build 21st Century Skills
The Goddard School in Snellville is dedicated to advancing excellence in education and raising children’s performance. We strive to provide a safe, secure, and nurturing environment that encourages a lifelong love of learning. Our SACS CASI accredited Curriculum is designed to facilitate learning through exploration, communication, and enrichment activities. As 21st century learners our students poses the enhanced skills of communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity.
10 ways Families can help build 21st Century Skills:
1. Cook together. Help your children follow a recipe. Explain the steps as you go along.
2. Shop together. Create a simple shopping list and read the items aloud as you place
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them in the cart.
3. Travel together. Play simple games. Chart average temperatures at your
destination as you count down to a family vacation.
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4. Play games together. Encourage your children to learn the rules of a game by
reading and enforcing the directions. Games can help children develop their
working memories, too.
5. Do projects together. Build something together out of boxes, paper towel tubes and
more to inspire creativity and innovation.
6. Get involved together. Involve your children in routine home maintenance and
family decisions.
7. Read together for at least 20 minutes a day. Ask your child about what the
characters in the book are like and what would happen if the story changed.
8. Do simple chores together. Ask your children to sort clothes according to color, read
washing instructions, measure detergent and time wash cycles. Following these
steps helps children learn how to plan.
9. Use technology together. Use a computer, tablet or smartphone to communicate with the children’s grandparents and other family members. Before the call, plan what you will do together. Consider reading, singing or playing an interactive game.
10. Create a family photo album together. Plan what to include, the theme and the
sequence of photos together with your child.
Come and see what The Goddard School Snellville is all about. Give us a call or stop by for a tour!
The Goddard School
1565 Janmar Rd.
Snellville, GA 30078
(678) 344- 0042
SnellvilleGA@goddardschools.com
