Resources

If you would like to support your child with their learning at home, here are some suggestions of things you can do:

Reading

• Read a variety of genre

• Examine text features: table of contents, index, glossary, captions

• Talk about books your child reads.

  • • Before reading the story:

      • • Talk about the title, author, and illustrator

        • Look at the picture on the cover and make a prediction

        • What kind of background knowledge do you have?

    • After reading the story:

      • • Did the prediction match? Why, why not?

        • What did you like best about the story?

        • Who were the characters in the story?

        • Are you the same or different from the main character in the story?

        • Would you have done the same thing as the characters? Why, why not?

        • What caused a certain event to take place?

        • What was the setting?

        • Discuss the problem/solution of the story

        • Text-to-self connection: Has anything similar ever happened to you in real life?

        • What did you learn?

        • How could the ending be changed? How would that affect the story?

        • What is the message of the story?

Writing

• Write in a journal; add details, title, beginning and end

• Review descriptive words

• Write a letter/postcard to someone special

• Create a story

• Write a poem to match your drawing

• Using your senses describe: buttery popcorn, fresh baked cookies, crispy apples, etc.

• Practice spelling your Fry's List in the homework folder

• Make a list of all the rhyming words in a word family

• Spell words using learned word parts

Math

• Practice addition facts 1-20; subtraction facts 1-20

• Practice addition word problems; subtraction word problems

• Measure different things in your home using tools, rulers, measuring cups, scale

• Practice counting mixed coin combinations

• Skip count by 2's

• Follow recipes

• Tell time

Here are some websites that we use. Feel free to visit them after school hours to further support your child's learning. More will be added as we introduce them to students throughout the year.