Helping at Home
How can you help your child at home?
- Make sure your child understands their daily homework. Play the math games with them. Check over the reading papers and writing choices and encourage them to do their best work. Write a note for me if they are having trouble with a specific skill that I may help clarify for them.
- Help your child study for their weekly spelling test. Encourage them to study more words if they didn’t get the entire list highlighted.
- Go over the work your child brings home. Help them if there were difficulties and praise them for their best efforts. Encourage neatness on daily assignments.
- Read with your child every night. If they are an independent reader, they will most likely still enjoy being read to. Be sure to help them to record what they have read each day on the Weekly Homework "checklist" sent home each week!
- Use real money to practice counting money and making change. Use an analog clock to practice telling time. Practice addition and subtraction facts using flash cards, games or other methods you find together, including the math games provided in their take home binder. Learning those addition and subtraction facts is so important! Try the Xtra Math site for practice learning facts.
- Computer games and web sites can provide valuable practice for your child. I do recommend you visit any sites with your child and make sure they know how to navigate it so they can get the most out of the time they spend on the computer.
- Watch for links to helpful websites in my newsletters.