Recpes for Success Practical Activities to Help Your Child Succeed Refrigerator Poster
Just hang your Recipes poster on
the refrigerator and sneak in an
activity when you have a few
READING SPELLING minutes. These fun activities will
Pass it on
tivity.
read in g with this fun ac Picture this help develop school success and
the family ta
kes a turn ! positive behavior. Check off each
Everyone in pencil ctions
Your child can
prac
d ie n ts: st or ybook, paper, en, b ra in storm 15 instru sing phonics by mak tice spelling and box as you complete the recipe.
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xa m ples: P ass to an on on e leg . Write each or tape
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with your ch s to your right while stan a bowl. Let your youngs
left , p as sl ip s in
to your put the ter cut out mag
of paper, and k aloud. each letter of hi azine pictures
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s spelling words
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that start with
ad th ing
meone to re book accord train. Have him uld use a car,
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That person
dra s to the bow rite each letter es on a piece
ct ion s. (R eturn used slip book the pictures. of the spelling
word under
to the instru passing the
tin u e d ra w ing slips and Variation for ol
der children: G
Co n . separate pieces lue the pictures
ish the story on
until you fin pictures for lett
of paper. Then,
scramble the
ers that spell a
your youngste word and have
r put them in or
der.
MATH
A cup full o
f change
Add ing up coins w
of each one. ill give your yo
ungster practice
in remembering SOCIAL STU
the value
Ingredients: six
paper cups, mar SCIENCE DIES
ker, loose change etend she is Ask your youn
Label each cup
with a random Have your child pr gster to look up
your
use values rang do e find three things state flower in
ing from 5 cent llar amount. For a younger ch a magnet. Can sh an encycloped
ia.
s to 25 cents. F ild, you might (soup can, paper Let him draw th
amounts more
chal or an older on she would stick to e
into each cup lenging, say, 78 cents or $1.3 e, you could m k of three things flower on pape
always going ov 5. Next, place ake clip)? Can she thin and cut it out.
r
er the amount various coins to
Have your youn labeled. she wouldnt stick Tape on a drin
and count it. Sh
gster dump ou
t th (crayon, comb)? straw stem. H
king
ell have to deci e money from the first cup She could use can make a bo
e
reach the total de which coins uquet
Note: If she do
labeled. Then,
she moves on
to put back in
to a refrigerator by adding flow
esnt have the ex to the second cu
act coins she ne p. magnet to check from states he
ers
eds, she can w her answers. would
ait like to visit.
to get extra ch
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from the other
cups.
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Recpes for Success Chaorrancetrer
Practical Activities to Help Your Child Succeed
DIVISION
C
WRITING RESPONSIBILITY
twist A newborn elep
Stories with a uscles by
hant
about 240 poun weighs Have your child list his responsibilities.
yo un gs ter to str etch her writing m ds.
your child how Ask Examples: Do my homework. Feed
Encourage your many of
w twist. him it would ta the dog. Then, discuss the duties of
giving stories a ne ke to equal an others, such as teachers or police offi-
elephants weigh
e story, paper, pencil t. Let him weigh
Ingredients: favorit ch as Goldilocks himself, and he cers. Talk about what happens when
on e of yo ur ch ilds favorite stories, su to rewrite the weight into 24
lp him divide hi
s responsibilities arent taken care of. What
Together, read , work together 0. Als
d the Th re e Be ar s. When you finish uld take place in another compare an elep o, have him if the police officers decided not to direct
an it co ha
nt setting. Perhaps r to think other objects. F nts weight to traffic when the traffic light broke?
story with a differe a bi g city. Ask your youngste or example,
country or in th e m id dle of stanc If the three
e, how many 5-lb INDEPENDENCE
se tting w ill ch an ge the story. For in . bags of
sugar equal a ba
about how the by Teach your youngster a new skill like
artment, how will
bears live in an ap elephant? how to fix her own lunch or lay out her
e?
Goldilocks get insid clothes for school the next day. She will
share gain a sense of accomplishment when
Invite your child to
her new story with
the PATTERNS she doesnt have to ask you for help.
tterns helps
rest of the family at Understanding pa
ills and
GIVING
dinnertime. kids with math sk Instead of buying gifts, encourage your
k your
coding. Try this. As child to give tickets. They might be good
comes next
youngster, What for playing a game with a sibling or helping
e pattern is
in this pattern? Th a parent with housework, for example. He
paper clip,
paper clip, pencil, can draw the tickets on paper and
line up the
pencil. Have her decorate them with markers.
r answer.
objects to show he
VOCABUL
HISTORY ARY
Open a box
Congratulations! Go to the library together and
check an almanac for facts fro
your youngst
of crayons an
er to make u
d ask
m own names p his
for
the year you were your child
s age (the Encourage h the colors.
We finished activities together on this poster. cost of a stamp, who was pre im to think
sident). about what
Look through old pictures for objects or fe
toys ings the colo el-
rs
and other things you used. Wh
at mind. Exam bring to
does your youngster use that ples: sunshin
Signed (parent or adult family member) Signed (child) yellow, mead e
wasnt around when you were ow green,
stop sign red
her age? .
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