Home Practice Choices
You and your child have the option to do the assigned nightly task or make a choice from the menu provided in the home practice folder. Just in case you've lost it, here's a short list with many of the same choices.
Reading Practice:
- Read a book of choice out loud to practice fluency and expression
- Read a book then answer some questions from a family member (may write in journal)
What happened at the beginning, middle, and end?
Who is the main character? What do you know about him or her?
Where does this story/book take place or teach you?
Is this story something that could really happen? Why or why not?
What was your favorite part? Why?
Spelling Practice:
- Write words in journal, no more than 5x per word
- Multiple practice of each word, create sentences using words
- Make a memory game by writing each word on two small cards. Each time the word is turned over, read it and spell it.
- Write “rainbow words” in journal with crayons or colored pencil. Each time you write the word use a different color, trace the word and spell it out loud.
- Write words in shaving cream spread on a cookie sheet or in the tub as a family member says the words and write about your experience in your journal.
- A family member quizzes you on the word and you write it in your journal.
Writing Activities: (skip lines and try to write good sentences)
- Write about what you did at school, after school, or something you did on the weekend.
- Write in your journal using the prompt given on the monthly calendar.
Math Practice Activities: (make sure to note what was done in journal)
- Do First in Math and write what you did, time played, and stickers earned.
- Practice +/- flashcards. Make up games, time and graph, or drill for practice. Mastery (rote memorization) of +/- facts to 10 required by end of second term. Facts to 20 by end of the year.
- Play card and Board games! Children will build on logical reasoning and learn about turn-taking. 2 dice can be used instead of 1 to roll together for moves, and easy way to practice facts. Record moves in journal to practice writing equations.
- Sum Racing: 2 dice, paper, pencil. Create a number line at the bottom of the paper by writing 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12. Child will roll the two dice. Say the addition sentence with the sum and place an x over the number that is the sum. First sum to reach 10 wins!
- Time Practice: On an analog clock, ask child to tell the time on the hour. When mastered, ask to tell time on the half-hour as well. Children need to understand that 1:30 on a digital clock means 30 minutes past 1 o’clock on an analog clock. Record in journal what was done.
- Money: Children need to know the name of coins and their value; penny, nickel, dime, and quarter. This is a practical skill and best practiced with real coins. Children can name coins in your pocket, purse, or penny jar. As names of coins are mastered begin working on counting using value. Your child must be able to count coins to $1.00. Play collect 25 cents to practice.
- Use a 100’s chart and practice counting forwards and backwards from different numbers, count in patterns, count by 2’s, 5’s, 10’s from different numbers, and use the chart to do simple problems. Families can make up word problems and child can solve, write in journals.
- Practice measurement: Make a list of things that can be measured with a rule or yardstick, measure and record each thing.
- Bake together! Measuring ingredients and following directions is a “real-life” use of measurement.
Science Activities:
- Write an observation of something in your backyard.
- Write an observation of any living thing.
- Create something from recycled materials.