BellevueAvenue-Ophelia-Paper4.jpgDoodle Border6.pngDoodle Border6.pngDoodle Border6.pngDoodle Border6.pngDoodle Border6.pngDoodle Border6.pngBuilding Skills at Home Parent Handouts K-2 Informational Sheets to Include with Newsletters or Pass Out at Conferences or Parent Nights Created by Primary Junction Primaryjunction.blogspot.com Slide1.PNGSlide1.PNGSlide1.JPGSlide1.PNG BellevueAvenue-Ophelia-Paper4.jpg BellevueAvenue-Ophelia-Paper4.jpg Doodle Border6.png Doodle Border6.png Slide1.PNG Slide1.PNGDoodle Border6.png Doodle Border6.pngSlide1.PNG•Play board games as a family! Many of them encourage math development. Yahtzee (basic addition), Connect Four (problem solving), Card Games (basic addition and subtraction and ordering numbers), Candy Land (make your own game cards and use math facts instead of colors), Monopoly (money), and Battleship (coordinate graphs) are just a few to mention. •Talk about the calendar with your child. Look forward to and countdown to special events such as vacations, birthdays, and holidays. Count the weeks and days to an event, and determine which day it will fall on. •Help your child learn to count money by playing store with them. Use real coins and dollar bills. •Use an empty egg carton as a counting tool to practice addition and subtraction skills up to 10. Simply place objects in the slots, and use the empty slots to count up to/from 10. •Be on the lookout for shapes. Discuss the shapes you see. For a challenge, ask your child how many sides the shape has. (Example: A triangle has three sides. Two triangles would have six sides.). •Help your child develop time skills by incorporating the clock into their schedule. At home, create a bedtime schedule (Example: Brush Teeth at 8:00; Bedtime story at 8:10; Bed at 8:30). Create a poster with the schedule, and hang it in your child’s bedroom. Begin with easy times (7:00), and gradually progress to more difficult times (7:30 and 7:45). •Involve your child in activities at home that use measurement such as picture framing and home improvement projects. •Bake with your child. Have them read recipes and measure ingredients. •Develop an understanding of fractions when eating or making a pizza by discussing how many slices there are, and what fraction of the pizza they are eating. 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Leave a note by their bed or in their lunchbox. •Play word games such as Wheel of Fortune and Hangman. Hangman is an especially great way to pass time in a doctor’s office or restaurant! •Have a place in your home where you display your child’s writing! •Encourage your child to plan their writing and revise drafts before publishing! •Publish your child’s writing! Not only does it make them feel special, but it also makes a wonderful keepsake. StoryJumper.com allows you to order hardcover books of your child’s writing! You could also use programs such as Microsoft Photo Story to publish a digital version of their book! Simply scan in your child’s drawings and record them reading their story. Publish and you can immediately send it to family and friends or burn to a disc to watch on television! ©Primary Junction •Write letters and cards to family members and friends, and encourage them to write back! •Encourage your child to write stories about their favorite things. •Keep a journal of Summer activities. •Read comics in the newspaper and let your child create their own. •Create a newspaper and write articles about weekly activities. •Use fun writing tools such as markers, gel pens, crayons, pencils, etc. •Let your child create a shopping list before going to the store. •Gather kids in the neighborhood to write a play. •Advanced readers and writers might enjoy Mad Libs, while parents could create their own version of Mad Libs for beginning readers and writers. •Take turns writing back and forth to your child! Leave a note by their bed or in their lunchbox. •Play word games such as Wheel of Fortune and Hangman. Hangman is an especially great way to pass time in a doctor’s office or restaurant! •Have a place in your home where you display your child’s writing! •Encourage your child to plan their writing and revise drafts before publishing! •Publish your child’s writing! Not only does it make them feel special, but it also makes a wonderful keepsake. StoryJumper.com allows you to order hardcover books of your child’s writing! You could also use programs such as Microsoft Photo Story to publish a digital version of their book! Simply scan in your child’s drawings and record them reading their story. Publish and you can immediately send it to family and friends or burn to a disc to watch on television! BellevueAvenue-Ophelia-Paper4.jpgThank You! Thank you so much for downloading this packet. It is much appreciated! I hope it will provide your students’ parents with some simple and inexpensive ways they can spend time with their children while also investing in their education! 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