Do you still read aloud with your child? Do you think they are too old for this? I encourage you to CONTINUE this practice of reading aloud to your child all throughout your relationship….here are just a few ways it helps! Reading aloud…. 1. Inspires writing 2. Expands vocabulary 3. Boosts comprehension 4. Improves listening […]
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Help your child create cards for soldiers and shut-ins. Talk to the kids about how happy the people will be to receive their special card. Bring in old Christmas cards and let the children cut them up to create new cards on bright colored cardstock or construction paper. Make sure to tell your child’s teacher
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Use Math Word Problems to help teach the real meaning of Christmas….here’s an example. My mentor and I made 24 cookies for the teachers at my school. I decided to make 12 more to give to my neighbors to show them kindness. How many cookies did I make in all? Vary these questions according to
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Practice grammar as you teach about the real meaning of Christmas with this simple idea. Make a BINGO board and work together to fill in boxes with different parts of speech….as a mentor be sure to include words that give a greater meaning to Christmas. For example…. Verbs– giving, caring, loving Adjectives-special Nouns- family As
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It’s the MOST WONDERFUL time of the year, and even though you are mentoring at a public school you can still help teach your child lessons about Christmas . While you can not come out and share the story of Jesus, you can teach them about giving, caring and loving others with a few simple
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Children’s writing can be hard to read sometimes because they SMASH their letters together. Here’s a trick to fix that…use an orange marker with a thin point for the spaghetti and brown markers with a thick point for the meatball. Model how you want the children to use their markers when they write letters and
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“The child must know that he is a miracle; that since the beginning of the world there hasn’t been and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.” Pablos Casals
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Showing respect for our leaders is an important lesson that we can help teach the kids that we mentor. One way you can do this is to help your children write a letter to our new President-elect. Help them include words of encouragement and ideas that they have to help our country. I am still
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Drilling math facts is important for ALL ages, but it does not have to be boring. First and Second Grade students can pratice their addition and subtraction facts, while third through fifth graders can add multiplication and division to their list. Whatever facts you are practicing, jazz up drill time with a few of these
Children who can read can succeed, and here is one way to make sure that happens….read out loud to your students! Many of us read to our kids when they are young, but as they grow older and are able to read independently, we stop. Jim Trelease in The Read Aloud Handbook tells us that
