* Keep a journal at home to write down any questions, thoughts, or ideas to share in class.  

* Read a variety of genres (ie: fables, legends, biographies, how-to, magazines, comic books).

*  Learn 2-3 new words a day in the dictionary and use them in sentences. 

*  Practice reading grade level texts for fluency.  Our goal is to read 110 words per minute by May.

*  Challenge your child by asking them to tell you sets of synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and compound words.

*  Ask your child to write a summary of any books that they read.

*  Have book talks with your child about different books and encourage them to share the main idea, problem, events, solution, etc.

*  Work on 2 digit addition and subtraction problems.

*  Time your child on their knowledge of multiplication facts. Practice the ones that take more than 10 seconds to figure out.

*  Practice properly telling time to the exact minute.

*  Study various habitats and which animals you can find living there.

*  Find real life objects and relate them to geometric shapes and figures.

*  Discuss current issues taking place in our nation.

*  Ask your child to make connections with the text they are reading.

*  Visit any of the student-friendly websites I have on my site.