Here you will find ideas for what you can do at home to help your child throughout the school year!

   If your first grader  is not already tying their own shoe laces, now is a great time to begin teaching them! Here is a craft idea to help you help your child.
   Get a shoe box, cover it with paper and label with the child's name. Then punch holes in the lid of the box to resemble shoe-lace holes in shoes. Give your child the box, crayons, and markers and let them decorate the box to look like a shoe. Then lace the box with a shoe lace. Have your child use this to practice their shoe lace tying skills.

Please practice addition and subtraction facts with your first grader.
Below are the "Problems of the Lesson" that coincide with our Chapter Five Lessons. Please take some time and review these with your first grader.

The class will be visiting the computer lab once a month. We are working on keyboard/typing skills.  To help your child practice at home, visit:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/.

It is very important that children become familiar with sight words. These are those commonly used words that seem to always pop up when we are reading and writing. There are many ways to help your child learn these words: make flashcards, create games, hunt for words when reading stories together, or look for them on signs when you're driving in the car20 or going for a walk.
  The following are some of the words that you can begin to help your child learn:
a
and
are
as
for
he
her
his
is
of
on
that
the
they
was
with

Each student in the class will have one week to be our star student. That
student will be allowed to share something special with the class each day, such
as a favorite toy, trophy, book, song, and pictures. The student will fill out
an "All About Me" poster to hang up in the classroom. Parents are also welcome
to come in to do an activity with the class. The activity is limited to 20
minutes and must be scheduled in advance. More information regarding "Star
Student" will be sent home.

In Social Studies, we are talking about goods and services. We are also discussing needs and wants. The students will learn about earning and saving money, as well as making a budget.