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ELA Strategies

Search around your house for objects that begin with each letter of the alphabet.  Can you find all 26 letters?  

Read a story book to your child and discuss the characters, setting, problem and solution.

Listen to a story.  What was your favorite part?  Retell the story to your family or act it out.  

Read a learn about the world book.  Discuss what they already know about the topic before reading.  During and after reading discuss what your child has learned.  

Logon to Reading a-z (Razkids) and read 2 books.  Answer the 5 reading questions after you read.  You can also read two of your own books and have your parents ask you questions about what you read.  

Have your child read a book to you.

Practice snap words- read them, play games with them, find them in a book and write them.

Read your alphabet and circle the vowels in red.  

Practice the sounds letters make.

Make a list of rhyming words.  Use ending at, it, ut, am, in un, et, ug, an and ot .

Use magazines to circle snap words and vowels.

Find a book or magazine.  Can you find the digraphs?  CH, TH, WH, and SH.  Write the words that you found and then try to read them.  

Create a story using illustrations, labels and write a sentence.  Stretch out words, check that each word has a vowel and read the story to someone.

Practice learning the calendar with your parents or a sibling.  What day is it?  What month is it?  What's the day?  What's the year?  

 

 

Math strategies

Count and write numbers 0-20.  (Use objects to practice one to one match)

Add and subtract two groups of objects within 10. Write a number sentence.

Go on a 2d and 3d shape search around your house?  What shapes did you find?   

Make a recipe with a parent and discuss measurement.  

Take a walk around your house and compare sizes of objects using words such as heavier, lighter, taller, shorter, the same as or different.  

Compare two groups of objects using words such as more than, fewer than or the same as.  

 

Resources

Raz Kids

Storyonline

Sumdog

Epic

Starfall

PBS Kids

BrainPop

Dr. Jean Videos

Jack Hartman Videos

Cosmic Kids Yoga

Ipad Apps

Letter School

Ten Frame Fill

Subitize Tree

Sumdog -(can download the app or use the link above on a computer)

Epic -(can download the app or use the link above on a computer) Class Code - lww4640