- 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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