Checklist to Help You Support What Your Children Learn in School
A new school year finds all of us with best intentions of helping children succeed in School. A simplified list of reminders on the refrigerator door can help us keep our resolutions in mind.
1. To be alert and ready to learn, your child needs plenty of rest, nutritious meals, and a good deal of physical activity. These seem obvious, but they take discipline on the part of the entire family.
2. Find time to talk regularly to your child about what is important to him or her.
3. Monitor television viewing.
4. Provide a place for your child to study and offer to help with homework if
necessary.
5. Read to or with your child as often as you possibly can - even if it’s just a few
minutes. Encourage your child to read for fun, too, and take time to talk about what he or she is reading.
6. Let your child see you reading newspapers, magazines, and books to show how you incorporate reading into your daily activities.
7. Send your child notes and encourage him or her to wrote in practical ways every day - making lists, notes, or keeping a notebook of thoughts and ideas for example.
8. Take your child to the library regularly, and watch for opportunities to purchase books at yard sales or flea markets.
9. Don’t underestimate the importance of encouragement. Praise efforts, give
support when limits are stretched., and remind your child that mistakes are
learning opportunities.
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Stone Fox - Gardner
Magic Tree House Series - Osborne
Jigsaw Jones Mysteries - Preller
Because of Winn-Dixie - Dicamillo
Helen Keller - Graff
Shiloh - Naylor
Grapes of Math - Tang
Frindle - Clements
Heidi -Spyri
The Mouse and The Motorcycle -Cleary
Indian In the Cupboard - Banks
Chocolate Touch - Catling
Henry Huggins -Clearly
The Hundred Dresses - Estes
Math Curse -Scieszka
Stuart Little - White
Snowflake Bentley - Martin