Parent Resources and Links
Parents-
Below are some links that will help you help your child be successful, and career and college ready! Click, Enjoy, Learn, and Have Fun!
Standards:
Links to Reading Strategies:
http://www.gssd.ca/school/ycs/Lists/Publications/Reading%20strategies%20for%20parents.pdf
https://www.ps60.org/ourpages/auto/2018/10/2/60640338/Reading%20Strategies%20for%20Parents.pdf
https://www.foxbay.k12.wi.us/Stormonth/literacy/Literacy%20Night%20Brochure.pdf
Links to Math Strategies:
Helping Your Child With Today's Math
10 Ways to Boost Your Child's Math Success
Resources for Math Homework Help
Parent Resource Pages for Reading:
Referring to details and Inferring
Theme, Main Idea, and Summarizing
Context Clues and Word Meanings
Parent Resource for Math:
Helpful Math Websites for Home-4th grade
Helpful Math Websites for Home-5th grade
Family Night Resources for 5th grade
Helpful Tips for Parents and Guardians with Math
Believe that every child can be successful in math. It takes good teaching, coaching, encouragement and practice.
- Talk about math in a positive way. A positive attitude about math is infectious.
- Encourage persistence. Some problems take time to solve.
- Encourage your child to experiment with different approaches to mathematics. There is often more than one way to solve a math problem.
- Encourage your child to talk about and show a math problem in a way that makes sense (i.e., draw a picture or use material like macaroni).
- When your child is solving math problems ask questions such as: Why did you...? What can you do next? Do you see any patterns? Does the answer make sense? How do you know? This helps to encourage thinking about mathematics.
- Connect math to everyday life and help your child understand how math influences them (i.e. shapes of traffic signs, walking distance to school, telling time).
- Play family math games together that add excitement such as checkers, junior monopoly, math bingo and uno.
- Computers + math = fun! There are great computer math games available on the internet that you can discover with your child.
- Talk with your child’s teacher about difficulties he/she may be experiencing. When teachers and parents work together, children benefit.