Your child can brush up on her math skills by charting the length of time that each candle on the menorah takes to burn.

Draw some educational value out of a summer stocked full of adventures!

Learn about the microclimate of your backyard by tracking rainfall, temperature, and observed weather with hand drawn charts and graphs.

Delay your child's sugar overload, and develop his critical thinking skills, by doing some "sweet sorting" of his Halloween treasures!

Hone observational skills and introduce the basics of data interpretation with this data gathering activity all about the different colors people wear.

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.