Reading: Read to your child and have your child read to you. Ask questions about what you are reading. Identify the characters and setting. Discuss the problem the main character has and how it was solved.

Leadership Spelling: Practice the spelling words daily. Your child will have red words. These words have to be memorized because they don’t follow spelling rules.

Writing: Have your child write simple stories making sure that the sentence starts with a capital and ends with the correct end mark. Stories can be about anything and do not have to be about a momentous occasion.

Handwriting: Encourage your child to use proper letter formation when writing. Use the language of headline, mid-line and baseline to help them make their letters correctly. We are also working hard on letters that go below the line. 

Math: When doing math problems, ask your child how he/she knows the answer. New standards require that the student verbalize and show how the answer was acquired. As always, practice basic math facts with flash cards.