Parent/Child Activities
Family activities are extremely important in a young child’s life. Research has shown that children are generally more “rounded” when they have parents taking an interest in them and participating in activities during their home life. Below are a few examples of ways to bring literacy and math into your families and your home.
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Build a Bird House
A great way to engage children in learning is with the use of “hands on” engagement. To utilize fine motor skills, as well as practice concepts relating to measurement, parents and their children can work together to create and build a bird house from scratch. With adult supervision, the child can acquire the skills of sawing wood, using a hammer, and gluing. By following the directions found on the link below, you and your child will go through the step-by-step process of measuring, cutting, and assembling a bird house. Directions to assemble a bird house. References: Brain, M. (1997). Blue Bird House Plans. BYG Publishing, Inc. Retrieved from http://www.bygpub.com/bluebird/ |
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2.3.4.B: Select and use appropriate tools and units for measuring quantities (e.g.,length, time, weight, temperature). |
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Standard: 2.1.4.F: Understand the concepts of addition and subtraction and their inverse relationships; understand the concepts of multiplication and division; use the four basic operations to solve problems, including word problems and equations. |
24
24 is a great game to play at home against other family members. Practice makes perfect! After playing this game on a regular basis, your addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division skills will become more defined. The objective of the game is to reach the total of 24. This can be accomplished through any of the operation, as long as all four numbers are used. The great thing about playing against other family members is that you learn there may be multiple ways to solve a problem. The way you solved the answer may be different than the way your parents/family members did. The dots located in the corners of the card determine the difficulty level of the card. The first person to reach 24 gets to keep the card. The player with the most dots at the end of the deck wins! References: How to play a 24® game single digits card. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.24game.com/t-about-howtoplay.aspx |
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Tens Go Fish
– Played similar to the original Go Fish Game. However, instead of looking for matching pairs, students search for numbers that will add up to 10. Standards: 2.1.4.F: Understand the concepts of addition and subtraction and their inverse relationships; understand the concepts of multiplication and division; use the four basic operations to solve problems, including word problems and equations. |
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Cloze
Cloze is a great activity to help students build their comprehension skills! Cloze leaves the first and last sentences intact and deletes every #th word. Every fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, or tenth word may be deleted. The child's job is to fill in all of the missing words in the text. Throughout this process the child is strengthening their comprehension skills. Don’t limit your child to only school work sent home by the teacher. It is very east to create a Cloze of your own for your child to decipher. Click on this link to create your own Cloze! Standards: 1.1.4.C: Use meaning and knowledge of words (e.g., homophones, homographs, root words) across content areas to increase reading vocabulary. Image Courtesy of Google |