🥧Happy Pi Day!🥧

Published: Mon, 03/14/22

Happy Pi Day!

OK - not that pie...

Pi Day Connections - a rock sculpture that looks like the mathematical sign pi

March 14th is known as Pi Day (3.14).

It's a great excuse to strengthen the bonds and connect with our children.

Do something special with your kids for Pi Day. You could bake a pie or eat pizza pie. Use the time you spend together to talk to your children. Ask them what's going on in their lives, what they dream about, what they want to do this summer.

You could also play games... one of the easiest Pi games is to have your child roll dice and try to get each of the first 10 digits (or more) of Pi.

The numerical version of Pi = 3.1415926535893238 ...

If you write the first 10 digits on a piece of paper, your child can check off each one as they roll that number.

To make it a little more challenging (or longer - if you are having fun), you could try to roll the dice to get the numbers in order.

So, your child has to roll until they get a 3. Then roll again until they get a 1. Roll again until they get a 4, a 1, a 5, and so on.

A picture of a Pi Day "Sky Line" art project

Another thing you could do to bond with your children is a Pi Day "Sky Line" art project.

For the simplest one, all you will need is graph paper and a writing utensil.

For each number, you will fill in one square on the graph paper.

Start with 3 squares colored in the column on the far left. Then you could put a dot, or leave a blank column, for the next space. Then you would color one square in the next column followed by 4 squares in the next column, and so on.

In the pictures here, you can see that we colored each column in using black markers. Then we cut out the graph paper (around each colored-in column) and used a glue stick to put it on a colorful sky background.

I wish you lots of bonding and connecting time with your child(ren) possibly using Pi Day as your reason.

-Dr. Renee

I invite you to join me Friday morning...

Registration for Talking with Children in Times of Adversity 3/18/22

This is virtual and you will not be on camera.

There will be time at the end for your specific questions
or you can email them to me in advance: [email protected].

There will be a replay, but you must register prior to March 18th
by 9 am ET in order to get the links!

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