I was wondering if you have suggestions for helping a student in the first grade learn sight words. My son’s teacher sent home quite a long list of words that he needs to be able to read and write before the end of the year. We have been practicing some of them and I am sure that he works on them at school, but he is finding it hard to remember them. Now that we...
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Tips To Help Memorize Spelling Words:
Look at the word.
Write the word on an index card.
Say the word aloud.
Spell the word aloud.
Write the word five times.
Double check your spelling.
Write the word in a sentence.
Be sure to take a pretest before you take the real test!
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I can not get my two and a half year old son to stay in bed at night. Do you have ideas for getting kids to sleep in their own bed? I’m a firm believer in consistency and structure when it comes to bedtime. Just like the current advice that’s out there for adults that can’t sleep, children need night time rituals to get them prepared for sleep. Bedtime should be at the same time...
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My daughter is in grade 2. She is a good reader but we have a problem. Many of her friends are now reading chapter books. She wants to read them too but seems to be very nervous when she brings one home. I am sure that that she can read them but I don’t know how to help her relax and enjoy a good book. Can you think of any way that I can ease...
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Learning the proper term for solid shapes at an early age gives your child a head start in geometry. It’s very simple to teach them some proper names. Call a can a cylinder. Call dice or square boxes a cube. A CD case or a cereal box is a rectangular prism. A ball or a globe is a sphere. A cone shape at the primary level is just like an ice cream cone. A pyramid can easily be shown...
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