Spelling Ideas

Math Ideas

Reading Ideas

Spelling Ideas

Math Ideas

-Domino Addition/Subtraction: Use dominos to make addition and subtraction problems by adding/subtracting the sides.

-Roll dice to make new addition/subtraction problems. With each roll of the dice you have new problems.

-Have your child count the change at a store. If the total is $6.75 have them use your change to make the $.75 to pay.

-Use the Internet to help you! There are so many great websites that your child can use to strengthen any math skill.

-When we come to geometry, have your find all the different shapes (cones, pyramids, sphere, cubes, etc.) in your house.

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Reading Ideas (Sight Word Practice)

- Play a game of concentration with your sight words. Write each word two times on separate index cards. Turn all the cards upside down and match them up. The trick is you have to read them to get the points!

- Play a game of OOPS!!! Put all your sight words in a box with several Oops! cards. Reach in and grab a word. If you can read the word, you keep it, if not put all your cards back. If you grab an Oops! card, you have to put all your cards back.

-Read! Read! Read! Encourage your child to read whatever he/she enjoys. Wordsearches, magazines, books, and even some computer games are great ways to practice reading!

-Encourage your child to have his/her reading sound like talking. If your child is decoding words slowly, have him/her go back and reread without stopping to gain fluency.

-Make a tape of your child reading so that he/she can go back later and listen to themselves.

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Spelling Ideas

- Use shaving cream to write your words in the bathroom or on the kitchen table.

-Cut letters from magazines or newspapers and spell your words.

-Spell words with magnetic letters on your refrigerator (or even on a cookie sheet!).

-Use Crayola window markers to write your words on the windows of your house.

-Use different colors of crayon, marker, or colored pencil to make rainbows out of your spelling words.

-Use Cheerios or another type of food, to spell your letters (when you're finished you can even eat them!).

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