Your guide to activities and fun things to do with your preschoolers, toddlers and kids in Washington, DC

Saturday Easter Events at Your Giant Food Store

by Leticia

April 10, 2009

Easter is almost here and if you have a few last minute items to pick up this weekend, do your shopping at any Giant Food store this Saturday, April 11 and take your kids.  Yes, take your children.  I really just wrote that!  Normally I enjoy solo grocery shopping trips on the weekend but Giant has some fun stuff planned for the kids this Saturday from 11-4 pm.

With Easter egg hunts down the aisles, Easter basket raffles, tastings of Easter sweets throughout the day, and Easter egg cookie decorating, grocery shopping has never sounded more fun! 

For specific times for the aforementioned events, consult your local Giant Food store.  

A Being Savvy Look Back at Math Activities for Your Child

by Leticia

March 03, 2009

Math is all around us although it doesn't always seem like it to your child.  If you want to incorporate some more math into your everyday activities, here are a list of fun things you can do that are a far cry from the statistics, algebra, and geometry that they will meet in their later years. 

Besides my list of savvy pre-math activities, the following fabulous posts written by fellow Being Savvy City Editors will make math fun:

• Being Savvy Halifax’s Raechelle Masuda has a list of ideas to get your preschooler counting.
• Vancouver’s Gwen Floyd writes about math with manipulatives like pattern blogs and Legos for some hands on fun.
• Laura Stallard Petza of Being Savvy Baltimore wrote about math at the 32^nd Street Farmer’s Market.  Take a little trip up 95 with her guide to let your child test out their knowledge of money like counting, making change, and spending or use her ideas at your local farmers' market or neighborhood grocery store.
• Music and math?  Indeed!  Being Savvy Austin’s Nicole Basham explores the links between music and math with through her interview with Petra Soltis, Early Childhood Coordinator at the Austin Lyric Opera’s Armstrong School of Music. 
• There are lots of posts about money including Nicole Teed’s review of the Lunch Money album on Being Savvy Charleston, a guide to introducing your child to money by Amy Mumper in Cincinnati, a review of the Preschool Money Manager by Naomi from Being Savvy Cleveland, and a post called Money Makes the World Go Around by Jenny Meade from Being Savvy Kansas City.
• For tips on teaching to tell time, check out Being Savvy Dallas.  Or wow your kids with your knowledge of clock facts compiled by Milwaukee’s Amy Jo Jones.  Then take a trip to a couple hours north where Cecily Kellogg tells you the best Philly landmarks with clocks.
• And math is everywhere!  Shauna Reynolds of Being Savvy Nashville finds it at the park, West LA’s Susan Choi finds it when shoe shopping, and Jennifer Signore (Pittsburg) finds it around the neighborhood and on the mini golf course. It's also part of bowling according to San Antonio editors Emily and Colleen Pence, and a big part of any baseball game whether you are rooting for the Nats, Os, Tampa, or Tuscon!
• Math is also embedded in many favorite stories.  Terese Farmen from our San Diego site shares her favorites here while our Toronto City Editor, Katie, lists some of best counting songs and rhymes in her post.

With all of these great ideas from the Being Savvy City Editors, your child will be ready for algebra in kindergarten!   

Shopping by the Numbers

by Beth Hoffman

December 22, 2008

One of my favorite places to do a little teaching is the grocery store. Seriously! For the little kids, you can do red tomatoes, yellow lemons, green apples, white milk, and on and on. You've also got smooth bananas, bumpy cantaloupe, cold ice cream, and soft marshmallows. Now that my daughter is older, I'm using our trips to the store to teach her numbers and math. A  Read more...