Ways to Help Foster a Positive First Grade Experience:
- Sensible bedtime for your child
- Good breakfast and appropriate lunch
- Keep me informed of any developments at home which may effect your child's school behavior (loss of a pet, parents out of town)
- Remember that each child develops and learns at his/her own rate and in his/her own way
- Continue to let your child know you are interested and pleased with his/her efforts by talking with him/her about school, checking their home and back folders each day, and asking your child to explain work that he/she has brought home
- Please be sure to label everything that comes to school
- Help your child to learn his/her address, telephone number, and birthday.
- Review the names and sounds of all the letters of the alphabet, both upper and lower case
- Please get your child his/her own public library card, and visit the library often
- Practice counting money
- Read, read, read!
- Keep a journal
- Tell time using analog clocks
- Cook, together, reading recipes, and measuring ingredients
- Skip count by 2's, 5's, and 10's
- Review letters and sounds
- Find places you have visited on maps
- Write grocery lists together
- Write letters to family members and friends
