Tips to help your child with school

1. Helping Your Child
With School
Jenni Scholla,
Instructional Coach

2. Schools done for the day!!
● Tell me something good that happened to you
today.
● Tell me something you need to work on.
● Tell me what homework you have.
● Tell me something new you learned.
● Tell me something that made you laugh today.
● How did you help someone today?
● How did someone help you today?
● What was your favorite part of lunch?
● Tell me about 3 different ways you used your
pencil today.

3. Homework
● Snack
● Drink

4. Time
● Play or break time
● What time to do their work?
● K & 1st Grades --> 10-15 minutes
● 2nd & 3rd Grades --> 20-30
● 4th & 5th Grades --> 35-45 minutes
“No homework?”
READ READ READ READ READ READ READ READ

5. Quiet Spot
Materials
Where?

6. Books You Might See
School --> Home --> School

7. Take Care of Books

8. Reading at Home
In English OR
Native
Language!!

9. To help reading and language
● Tell your child stories in
your language.
● Read
books in your
language.
● Look at picture books and
tell the story using
pictures.
● Have your child tell
stories in their language!

10. Free access to books, movies, and
internet!

11. Raz-Kids! http://www.raz-kids.com/main/Login
Not all
students will
have an
account.
Check with
your child’s
teacher!

12. Tumble Books
http://asp.tumblebooks.com/library/asp/home_tum
blebooks.asp
For FUN
Reading!!

13. Math - DreamBox
● DreamBox Math Every elementary
students has a
DreamBox Math
account!

14. Questions?
Your teacher wants to help you child do the
best they can do! If you want or need
help...ask them!!