Help at Home

Thank you parents for all of the extra support you give your child at home.  Parental involvement greatly influences a child's success in the classroom.  I have spoken to many of you in the past few weeks about how to improve areas of concern on the report cards and/or MAP tests.  We have shared several of these ideas in newsletters throughout the year but I wanted to remind you of some ways that you can help at home.  Remember to keep learning fun!  

·        Make flash cards with numerals 0-20, mix them up, have students identify numerals and put them in correct order.  Have students count objects (such as cereal) and write the corresponding number.  

·        Practice counting 1-100. 

·        Use counters (beans, pennies, etc.) to fill in the tens frame in your homework folder to represent numbers 0-20.  Write the number of counters.  How many groups of 10 and how many extras does it take to create that number? 

·        Count on from a number other than 1.  Ex. start counting at 6 and see how high you can count.

·        Practice filling in missing numbers between 0-10.  Ex.  1 2 3 ___ 5 6 ___  8 9  10

·        View & sing along to educational YouTube videos, such as Jack Hartmann numbers in the teens.  This video teaches students the numbers 11-19 and how to write the numerals.  There are numerous sight word and math videos that will be fun and educational. 

·        Use the provided Math Workbook to practice pages that are on the same topic we are teaching in class.  You can find the topic number on the top of the sheets we send home; the page in the workbook will match the topic number.   

 

• Choose an activity from your sight word sheet in your homework folder to review sight words.  Practice a different activity each night. 
• Practice writing your alphabet using capital letter and lowercase letters.  Remember when writing your name to use a capital at the beginning of your first and last name only.   Review letter sounds. 
• Visit OES website.  Click on Tumblebooks to hear stories read aloud. 
• Cut out a magazine picture or draw a picture.  Practice sounding out and writing a word to match.  For example, cut out a tree and write the sounds you hear (t-r-e).  It is fine if the word is not spelled correctly; we are looking for beginning, middle, and ending sounds, not accuracy at this point.  Try to write a sentence or story to go with the picture.  

 

Visit these sites:

 

http://curric.spartanburg2.k12.sc.us/clologin.aspx   Compass Odyssey –

username: first and last name (Ex: John Smith)          password: k

 

http://studyisland.com/readingeggs/          Reading Eggs – student logins were sent home

 

http://www-k6.thinkcentral.com/ePC/logout.do  Students login with their lunch number as their user name and password.

 

Home Coaching Tips

               *be your child’s home reading coach

               *use the 100 BC skill cards

               *provide the time and opportunity for your child to read every day

               *provide a relaxed comfortable setting for your child to read

               *listen to your child read and let them hold the book

               *help with pronunciation

 

                *Use the strategies in your child's homework folder (ex. Owl eyes)

               *sign your child’s log sheet after reading (they log, you sign)

               *visit the library

               *set a good example for your child by reading – if they see you read, they will read, too

               *Keep it fun!