Daily Homework
MATH
Please sit down with your child every night to review basic math facts.
Knowing basic addition and subtraction facts by sight is important to your
child’s future. Counting money and telling time are also essential skills for
your child to master in second grade. Learning to tell time and count money
are lifelong skills needed for your child’s future. Please join me in
building a strong math foundation needed for your child’s success.
-Ways to practice basic math facts:
computer games magnetic numbers
flash cards calculators
dominoes math bingo
playing cards number lines
dice
-Ways to practice counting money:
*Allow your child to make purchases at the store. Use correct change or
count how much money they will receive back from cashier.
*Pay students for household chores. Students must trade in coins for greater
amounts.
*Play Monopoly or Pay Day and have child take the role of banker.
-Ways to practice telling time:
*Ask Santa for an analog watch for Christmas.
SPELLING
Practice spelling the words on the list each day by writing them on paper
with markers or crayons, typing them on the computer, writing on the
driveway with sidewalk chalk, or singing the letters to each word in a
song. Have your child look two or three words up in a dictionary and
then be able to use the words in a sentence. You can also check out
www.spellingcity.com for games, sentences, and teaching activities.
READING
Your child should be reading something at home every night. Listen to
him/her read to you. Ask your child to tell you about the characters,
setting, problem, and resolution. Ask if this story or parts of the story
remind him/her of something that they have personally experienced.
