Elementary Grade Level Math Resources (PK-1st)



Elementary Grade Level Math Resources (PK-1st)

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Parent+Child Activities

▪ Practice identifying numbers using flash cards

▪ Practice addition and subtraction facts using flash cards

▪ Play board games

▪ Play card games

▪ Complete connect-the-dot activities

▪ Count objects around the house

▪ Count change

▪ Measure your child’s height and weight each month

▪ Ask your child what he/she is learning in math

▪ Help with homework

▪ Be positive, don’t let your child get discouraged when math gets difficult

▪ Play catch and count each time the ball is caught

▪ Display a calendar and talk about upcoming family plans scheduled

▪ Have a daily schedule for your child (wake up, homework, bedtime, etc.) and practice telling those times on a clock

Elementary Grade Level Math Resources (2nd-5th)

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Parent+Child Activities

▪ Practice math facts using flash cards

▪ Play board games and card games

▪ Give your child an allowance for doing chores around the house/count money amounts

▪ Allow your child to purchase items at the store, estimating the total cost before purchasing

▪ Build something with your child (bookcase, bird house, kite, etc.)

▪ Ask your child what he/she is learning in math every week

▪ Help with homework

▪ Show a positive attitude toward math, mistakes are only learning opportunities

▪ Let your child help you cook, discuss measurements, temperatures, and cooking times

▪ Read books with math themes

Middle School Math Resources

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Parent+Child Activities

▪ Make sure your child completes his/her homework, allow breaks when he/she gets frustrated

▪ Be positive about math! Teach your child perseverance to continue working and not that math just makes your head hurt.

▪ Play board games (Monopoly, Yahtzee, etc.) and card games (pinochle, spades, etc.) with your child

▪ Let your child help with the cooking

▪ Let your child help with shopping, cutting coupons, comparing store prices

▪ Teach your child about money (spending and saving wisely)

▪ Build something with your child (bookshelf, garden, dog house, etc.)

▪ Ask your child to teach/show you something he/she learned in math today

▪ Encourage your child to find a math study buddy from class to call on for help when needed

▪ Read books with a math theme

Elementary Grade Level Reading Resources (PK-1st)

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Parent+Child Activities

▪ Play sound games with your child (letter sounds, blending sounds to make words)

▪ Let your child trace and say letters/words (trace in sand, shaving cream, sugar, etc.)

▪ Read to your child daily, let your child read to you

▪ Ask who, what, where, why questions when reading with your child

▪ Have your child retell stories after reading them

▪ Make lists of rhyming words

▪ Talk to your child about school, home, and community

▪ Write with your child (grocery lists, to-do lists, simple sentences)

▪ Visit the library to check out books

▪ Use flash cards to practice identifying letters and sight words

▪ Look at pictures in books, newspapers, and magazines and have your child describe the picture/write a sentence to go with the picture

▪ Leave little notes in your child’s lunchbox or backpack for him/her to read

Elementary Grade Level Reading Resources (2nd-5th)

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Parent+Child Activities

▪ Use flashcards to practice spelling and vocabulary words with your child

▪ Tell your child stories, let your child share stories with you

▪ Listen to your child read, read to your child

▪ When reading with your child, ask lots of WHY questions and see if they can predict what’s going to happen next

▪ Play word games with your child (Scrabble, Boggle, etc.)

▪ Let your child keep a personal journal or a family journal

▪ Cut the titles of articles from magazines or newspapers and have your child write a story to match the title. You can do this activity using pictures too.

▪ Visit the library often to check out different kinds of books to read

▪ Give books as gifts

▪ Make sure you have a dictionary in the home and use it often

▪ Provide lots of reading materials (books, newspapers, magazines, comics, etc.)

Middle School Reading Resources

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Parent+Child Activities

▪ Let your child keep a book of words, listing their parts of speech and definitions (new words learned at school, at home, or on their own)

▪ Have a dictionary at home and use it often

▪ Allow your child to subscribe to a magazine (Girl’s Life, Boy’s Life, Teen Graffiti, etc.)

▪ Let your child write and mail letters to family members

▪ Take trips to the book store or library with your child

▪ Leave encouraging notes in your child’s room, notebook, etc.

▪ Listen to your child read, read to your child, have a discussion about the books being read

▪ Read the newspaper with your child

▪ Give books as gifts, give writing journals as gifts

▪ Have your child keep a diary or a family journal

▪ Play games with your child (Scrabble, Boggle, crossword puzzles, etc.)

▪ Give your child some choice as to what he/she reads[pic]

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