Here’s a simple craft that you can do with your child during the mentoring hour. Create a snowflake using white yarn, scissors, glue, a pie tin and wax paper. First, have your child dip yarn strings in glue that is in a pie tin. Use the yarn to form a snowflake on wax paper, overlapping […]
During the first part of January help your child set goals for the new year. Begin by explaining that a goal is something you want to achieve. Help your child think up a goal for different areas in their life…academic, social, behavior. Some examples may be… * Turn in my homework on time * Make
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Everytime you meet with your KIDS HOPE USA student, it is important to take time at the beginning of the hour to reconnect and to find out how they are doing. We call this part of the KIDS HOPE hour the “Know What” period. This is when you will hear things like, “Know what I
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GIVE ‘EM a HAND….a “handy” method for understanding the concept of measurement 1. Have your student trace around one of her hands on cardstock paper and write her name on it. 2. To ensure that the hand lasts, you may consider covering it with contact paper or laminate it. 3. Model for your student how
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This game is a fun way to practice place value and greater than or less than Supplies: 2 dice, paper, pencil How to play: Roll the dice and put them in order to make the highest number possible. If you roll a 4 and a 6, for example, your best answer would be a 64.
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To play this game you will need The goal of this game is to be the first to complete a Mouse. Each roll of the die enables a particular
This is a fun way to practice some basic math facts! First, decide which function to practice- addition or multiplication- and a set of numerals to work with- 1 through 9 for younger children and larger numerals for older children. Write the numbers on small adhesive labels and place them on each section of the
Start your mentoring hour by asking your child questions that can’t be answered with a simple yes or no. Try writing these questions on index cards and let your child choose just one card a day to answer. It’s easy, but it will help you reconnect each week! 1. If you could arrive a school
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Helping your child learn how to read is not easy, but it can be fun! Start by letting your child choose a book that they would like to read. Then, follow the INSPECT Strategy to get the most out of your reading time together… I- Introduce the cover (i.e. “This book has a picture of
