January First Grade Family Fun-2014. READING. Fluency: ○ Listening to
recorded stories is a great way to provide examples of reading with fluency for
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January First Grade Family Fun 2015 READING
Fluency: Books on Tape/CD are a great way to provide examples of reading with fluency for your child. While listening to the story, make sure your child has a copy of the book and is following along with the words. You may also want to record your child reading a favorite story and then have him/her compare listening to the book on tape to their recorded reading. Comprehension: Making Predictions: When children make predictions about what they are reading, they stay more involved with the story. A prediction is based on what the reader knows about the characters, where the story is taking place, and what has happened so far in the story. The questions: What do you think will happen next? or How do you think the story will end? encourage children to make inferences and predictions about what they have read. Nonbook Reading Activities: Put on a play: The play can be performed as part of a family celebration or a special event. You can help your child create the play based on a favorite book, movie, or story they wrote. Scripts can be printed out, costumes can be created, and lines can be memorized to make the play more special! WRITING Encourage your child to write about his/her ‘Winter Break’ special times with family or fun activities with friends. Remind your child that adding describing words will make their story fun to listen to or read. SPELLING ● Scrabble Tile Word Builder each player selects 10 tiles and places them face up. The first player makes a 2 letter word, the next player adds a letter to make a new word. Play continues until no more letters can be added. The last person to add a letter earns a point and then the game starts over. ● Practice spelling words in trays of sugar, salt, pudding, or shaving cream.
● Website: spellingcity.com lets you enter any list of words, then makes games using your word list. MATH The link below has lots of card games that reinforce number sense and offer hours of family fun. Many of the games can be played with regular decks of cards. http://mixinginmath.terc.edu/materials/card_games.cfm This link offers lots of game boards that can foster critical thinking skills in a fun way. http://mixinginmath.terc.edu/materials/gameboards_pdfs/CloseItUp.pdf Numbers to 120: We have been working on number sense for numbers 0120. You can play a game with your child you name a number and your child tells what comes after or what number comes before. Here are two more links for fun math practice and games! Many Learning Games Addition Challenge SCIENCE You may want to: ● Set up a bird feeder and keep a chart graphing how many different birds come to feed. ● Begin planning a garden for spring planting using garden catalogues or online sites. WEBSITES Literacy ● http://www.razkids.com/ (Your child can listen to stories, read stories, take quizes after stories) ● http://www.tumblebooks.com/library/auto_login.asp?U=esteshills&P=books (Your child can listen to a story on the computer) ● http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/wordfamily/ (Your child can sort words by the word family “chunk”) Math ● http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=198 (Your child will use
addition or subtraction to find a missing part) ● http://www.abcya.com/addition.htm (a game to practice addition) ● http://www.abcya.com/subtraction_game.htm (a game to practice subtraction) Science ● http://www.fossweb.com/modulesK2/PlantsandAnimals/index.html ● http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/gamesactivities/plantsanimals.html
