Parent Resources
Ideas for Math:
Ideas For Reading
Ideas for Writing
Science/Inquiry Ideas
Amazing Sight Word Statistics
Sight Word Work
Your children will be learning sight words throughout year. You can click on the assigned list below for practice at home. You can also make flashcards instead.
**Make this fun! Challenge your student to beat you when reading the words. You can also make these words into flashcards, too.
Grade 1 sight words: Fry words 1st 100 words
Grade 1 sight words phrases: Fry phrases 1st 100 words
Grade 2 sight words: Fry words 2nd 100 words
Grade 2 sight words phrases: Fry Phrases 2nd 100 words
Grade 3 sight words:
Grade 3 sight words phrases: Fry phrases 3rd 100 words
- Use playing cards for a two person game: Each person draws a card, then take turns adding, subtracting, or multiplying face values
- Use dominoes for a two person game: Each person grabs a domino piece, then take turns adding, subtracting, or multiplying dots
- Use dice to roll two single, double, or triple digit numbers. Then add, subtract, or multiply the two numbers.
- Teach your child about measurements while cooking together
- Add the numbers on license plates and see who can find the one adding up to the largest number.
- Estimate and weigh objects - Have your child estimate weight and then weigh the object
- Measure items around the house or yard.
- Track daily temperatures.
- At the grocery store
- add and subtract prices
- count produce or items purchase
- weigh produce
- add up coupon savings
Ideas For Reading
- Find spelling sounds (i.e. magic e, long vowels, silent letters, etc) all around: in store names, in books, on street signs, etc.
- Read road signs
- Take turns reading sentences while reading together
- Challenge kids to read a word before you sound it out
- Read a word wrong, ask your child why that word doesn’t make sense, and ask your child for help figuring out the word.
- Have students read interactive books on the computer
- Play "Name a category" (i.e. animals, foods, sports).
- Example:animals. The first person names an animal starting with A, the next names an animal starting with B, and so on.
- Twist: Players spell the words for points.
- Have student read to younger/older brother or sister
- Have student call a family member to read to them over the phone
Ideas for Writing
- Reading / Writing - Take turns describing a character (using adjectives) in a book you’ve read and guessing which character is being described
- Reading / Writing - Take a favorite song and take turns changing the words
- Verbal / Writing - Play a game in which one of you describes an object or person and has the other person guess what it is
- Verbal / Writing – Make up a narrative story together. Take turns adding one sentence at a time.
- Oral Writing - Make up poems together that have an AA/BB or AB/AB pattern
- Writing - Write a letter to a friend, family member, or teacher
- Writing - Write a story telling your opinion on the best movie/show you have seen
- Writing- Do research on Pebble Go and write an informational story on 3 facts you learned about your topic
Science/Inquiry Ideas
- Science - Take a nature walk and make a "sticky bracelet" by looping packing tape, sticky side out, around the wrist to collect small items - leaves, acorns, twigs, pebbles, etc.
- Discover - Take turns aksing each other questions about what you see outside or around you: How many signs do you see? How do you spell the color of that butterfly?
- Discover - encourage hypothesizing - ask lots of open-ended questions during everyday activities, like taking a bath, riding in the car, or shopping (What will happen when you put different objects in water - soap, a sock, a shampoo bottle? Which ones will float? Which ones will sink? Why or why not?)
- Discover - build anything: blanket or pillow forts, tree forts, build with building blocks, dominoes, or a deck of cards
Amazing Sight Word Statistics
- Sight words are the most commonly used words in the English language. In fact, at least 50% of the words we read are sight words. As an example, 54% of words in Wikipedia are sight words.
- Children who have not mastered sight words struggle to read fluently, which affects their comprehension of what they read. Students should master in order to gain confidence in their reading.
Sight Word Work
Your children will be learning sight words throughout year. You can click on the assigned list below for practice at home. You can also make flashcards instead.
**Make this fun! Challenge your student to beat you when reading the words. You can also make these words into flashcards, too.
Grade 1 sight words: Fry words 1st 100 words
Grade 1 sight words phrases: Fry phrases 1st 100 words
Grade 2 sight words: Fry words 2nd 100 words
Grade 2 sight words phrases: Fry Phrases 2nd 100 words
Grade 3 sight words:
Grade 3 sight words phrases: Fry phrases 3rd 100 words