- Encourage kids to read at least one book about Arizona before the school year begins.
- Give them water bottles to carry around and fill during the day so they’ll keep up the habit when school starts.
- Steer them toward a new language through games, apps and library books and resources.
- Take them to Goldwater Lake and have them count all the boats.
- Give them a garden plot in your yard to plant and grow.
- Encourage them to create a budget for spending and saving their allowance.
- Try out a new sport with them at their favorite park.
- Pick out a packed lunch they enjoy; teach them how to prepare it.
- Take them to a Courthouse Plaza concert, then ask them which musical instrument they’d most like to play.
- Tell them to go climb a tree if they’re bored — keep one eye on them!
- Go to a Living History event at Sharlot Hall Museum.
- Teach them how to play chess — on a life-sized board drawn in your yard.
- Keep them in a daily routine roughly following their school-year schedule, with their input.
- Hike the trails with them and see the historic mining equipment at Prescott Valley’s Fain Park.
- Find volunteering opportunities — almost anything they try will have educational value.
- Let them “catch” you watching documentaries about science, nature and history.
- Stream a show from Embry-Riddle’s Jim and Linda Lee Planetarium.
- Let them tell a story about your neighborhood with words and pictures in sidewalk chalk.
- Send them to the nearest Little Free Library or help them set up a new one.
- Ask them to research that one building in downtown Prescott you’ve always wanted to know more about.
Getting Kids Ready for School without Them Realizing It
by Blake Herzog
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Prescott Living Magazine
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LIVE MUSIC — There's a bluegrass concert happening tonight at the Prescott Rodeo Grounds. The Folk Sessions is presenting AJ Lee & Blue Summit at 7:00 p.m. (Sunday, March 19). Tickets are available online.![]()
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AJ Lee & Blue Summit! Live in Concert!
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AJ Lee + Blue Summit are pure, beautiful American music. The band are torch bearers of the music that helped build America. - Eric Oblander
OUT & ABOUT — Did you enjoy some live music and drinks on St. Patrick's Day? Thank you to Fernando Mendigutia for sharing these photos taken at The PUB Prescott. Send your St. Patrick's Day photos by email to photos@roxco.com. We'll share them here on our Facebook page and they'll be considered for publication in our next issue. Thank you!