Fun Ways to Help at Home

 

There are many things that can be done at home to build on, reinforce or extend the learning done at school.  When doing many of these things, your child will not even know that they are learning!  Check out some of the options we have listed here and give them a try.  You will be surprised at how much your child will love them.  If you would like additonal ways to help your child at home, please do not hesitate to contact us!

Websites your children

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Other Tips and Tricks

for You to Try at Home!

 

Have your child count items as often as possible.  Have them count ingredients while cooking, signs when driving or animals when outside. Make this into a game.  Soon you will see their math skills blossom!

Did you know you could help your child learn to read while they watch television?  It is as simple as turning on the captions while they are watching.  The word & sound combinations work like being read to.  They will make correlations as to how language works and make connections with words and meanings.  Give it a try!

This next idea is one of the hardest things to do as a parent and a teacher, but it is probably the most important.  When reading, writing or working with your child, please give them time to think.  It is so easy to just give them the answer or tell them how to spell something.  LET THEM THINK IT OUT!  It may take longer than you think it should, but this thinking process is crucial to development.  At this stage in their education your child is probably not able to correctly read or write many words.  But the cool part is when they show you what they know!  For a child at this developmental stage, it is perfectly normal for them to write the word "cat" as merely "c" or "k".  Let them show you what they know and watch them grow!