You know what I love? Fruit snacks. Not for me, for Kyle and Kelly. Sure, fruit snacks aren't terribly healthy with ingredients like modified food starch and red dye #40 but at least they provide 100% of daily vitamin C. It's a tradeoff I'm willing to live with because fruit snacks are educational. Seriously, they are!
Give Kyle and Kelly each one package of fruit snacks. First they sort them by color, often trading ("sharing!") to get an even number of each color. This task also involves "counting" and "comparison", both great math skills. Then they figure out the shapes. Today's fruit snacks are Sharks. So we are learning about marine life too, bonus! All this with a $1 box of fruit snacks, it's a great bargain.
Okay so I really just like fruit snacks because they keep Kyle and Kelly entertained for several minutes while I do something frivolous like empty the dishwasher. Although... I wonder if they make fruit snacks in letter shapes. We could knock out all this preschool learning stuff at snack time!
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