Leokumovich, Marisa / Grade 2
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- Ways to Help Your Child At Home
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- Check your child's homework book each night.
- Be sure to look through your child's home folder everyday. Look for important notices and remove papers that have been checked by the teacher.
- Encourage your child to learn organizational skills by helping to pack his/her backpack before coming to school, rather than packing it for your child.
Ways to Support Reading at Home· Read to your child and model good reading habits (making predictions, asking questions, making a movie in your mind, retelling key events)
· Have your child read to you
· Have conversations about books (about different characters, lessons learned, genres, etc.)
· Read together out loud (choral reading)—this is a great way to model fluent reading (reading that sounds smooth)
· When your child gets stuck on a tricky word, rather than telling him/her the word, ask your child to be a “word solver.” Ask your child these questions: Does it look right? Does it sound right? Does it make sense?
Ways to Support Writing at Home
· Ask your child what patterns he/she is learning in school and look for words with these patterns in books or practice writing words with these patterns
· Ask your child to look through his/her work to check for correct capitalization, punctuation, and spacing between words
· Discuss possible writing topics with your child
· Practice writing the word wall words at home (word wall words can be found on our classroom website under “High Frequency Words”)
· Play word games! (Boggle, Scrabble, etc.)
Ways to Support Math at Home
· Practice counting by 2s, 5s, 10s
· Practice addition and subtraction problems
· Practice counting and exchanging coins