Parent Guide for Remote Learning:

Additional Elementary Resources

ELA Tips

Read and compare books you have read with your student. Tip: You may compare by author, topics, or whether the book is fiction or nonfiction.
Write about the books and stories you have read. Compare, contrast, or make a personal connection to the book.
Start a reading log with your student. Your student can log his or her reading and respond to what he or she has read.
Talk to your student about what he or she is reading. Tip: The characters in the book/story can be great conversation starters.
Lead family discussions on literacy-related topics. For example, have each family member talk about the book he or she is currently reading.
Read together. Read to your student, have your student read to you, read side by side with your student, or listen to audio books together.
Engage in a family read-aloud
Read a book, then watch the movie that goes with it and compare/contrast the book and movie.
When in the car or out for a walk, read print in the environment. Tip: Read signs, posters, billboards and labels. For early learners, identify letters in the environment.

Online Resources

DoDEA’s Digital Learning at Home for Parents
Mackinvia Database
This link contains DoDEA’s eLibrary of content specific eBooks. Please check with your student’s teacher for login information if needed.
Clever to Access the Benchmark Library
Access this link to access books in the Benchmark Library using your student’s Clever account. Please check with your student’s teacher for login information if needed.
PreK and Kindergarten Resources
Help your early childhood student understand increasingly complex language
*Tips for Using Picture Books for Early Readers

Math Tips

Build with Legos or blocks with your student. Talk about the shapes. Ask your student how they are alike and different. Measure the height of the structure using a ruler or yardstick.
Skip count by twos when walking upstairs.
Count pairs of shoes.
Fold napkins in different ways and talk about the shapes they make. Talk about symmetry.
Ask your student what the date is using a calendar. Let your student count how many days are in the month and say the days of the week. Ask what day comes before and after the current day.
With your student, locate geometric shapes around the house.
Find the area and perimeter of the room together.
Let your student help create the weekly meal plan. Ask your student to figure out costs and how much he or she will need.

Online Resources

Helpful Articles About Math

Math Resources by Grade Level

Social Studies Tips

Talk to your student about how people earn money. Some people provide us goods, such as oranges, and others provide us services, such as dentists and members of the military.
Talk to your student about where products come from and why it is important to have a choice to buy from around the world.
Compare and contrast the roles and interdependence of buyers (consumers) and sellers (producers) of goods and services.
Label and color a map of the United States, identifying each state and capital city. Talk with your student about the state(s) he or she has lived in, if applicable.
Talk to your student about the past (history), present (current events), and future.
Ask your child, is this a current event or was that an historical event that happened in the past?
Discuss with your student how we can learn from historical events.

Online Resources

Science Tips

Do science together.
Go on a nature walk. Document your observations in a science notebook, to include drawings of observations with labels.
Become active in your student’s formal education by getting to know the teacher and the curriculum.
Create a weather log for 30 days. Identify weather patterns that you observe.

Online Resources

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