How to Support Your Student

Creating a Successful School-Home Connection

Label the belongings your child takes to school.
Review your child's work and items in their backpack each day.
Create a special area for library books and school items. Teach your child to check this area as he or she leaves for school.
If your student is packing a snack or lunch, explain which foods are which. Review how to open them.
Read to your child and encourage him or her to read to you. Be a reading role model by letting your child see you read.
Ask your child about the books they are reading at school. Consider loaning similar texts from the library.
Praise your child daily for specific accomplishments. Try not make comments which are general statements such as "you are so smart." Try saying "I can see you used lots of colors in this picture - you must have been choosing thoughtfully." For more information about fostering a growth mindset, check out this article.

The most important thing you can do is to read every day! Make reading a part of your routine at home.

Current Unit: Realistic Fiction

Texts:

Skills:

What happened in this story? Can you tell important events?
Where did the story happen? (Setting)
Who was in the story? (Characters)
Can you retell the story in order - beginning, middle, end?
How did the character feel in each part of the story?
Can you draw a detailed picture that shows the characters and the setting? Make sure you choose colors carefully.
Identifying Text Features and talking about how they help us understand texts: Cover, Title, Illustrations

Practice Letter Sounds
- - FUNdations Letter Sound Video
  - Beginning and Ending Sounds: Ask your child to name words that start (and end) with the same sound (give them the word: car - ask them to name other words that start with the "c" sound... continue with words of different beginning and ending sounds)
Practice Writing Letters
- - Have your child practice writing each lowercase letter. Extra worksheets available here!
  - Have your child name the letter and tell you the letter sound as they are working on each letter.
Practice Blending Words Together
- - Play "Guess My Word" - Give them sounds and ask them to guess which word you are trying to make (for example: mmm-uh-d .... mud!).
Practice Rhyming
- - Read stories with lots of rhymes. Ask your student to listen for rhyming words and identify rhyming pairs.
  - Sing songs like "Down by the Bay." Encourage your student to invent their own verses.
  - Identify rhymes using the "Partners in Rhyme" app (Free!)

Current Unit: Eureka Module 1

Ways you can practice at home

Practice counting from 1-20 with your student. As they are ready, practice counting 1-100.
Practice counting on from a number other than 1. (Can you count from 5 to 20?)
Practice writing numbers 1-10.
Practice counting while doing chores. (Count how many spoons we used for dinner. Count how many steps it takes to get from the bathroom to the kitchen. Etc.)
Practice counting out a specific number of objects. (We need 6 plates for lunch. Can you count out enough?)

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