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Friday, June 21, 2013
After School Blog: Relentlessly Fun, Deceptively Educational
A creative blog full of fun after school activities and free printables.
IXL: Math Skills Website
This website lets students choose what grade level they want to practice on and the computer produces problems until the student gets 100 points. A quick way to review after school.
IXL website
IXL website
ABC Videos
Each alphabet video teaches letter sounds, consonants, vowels, vocabulary words using each letter, and uppercase and lowercase alphabet letter handwriting skills.
Watch out...they're catchy!
Click here for the whole list of free videos.
Free Reading App: Tic-Tac-Toe Phonics
Students build language skills in a fast-paced game of tic-tac-toe! Fun, interactive game explores vowel sounds, syllables and more.
Tic-Tac-Toe Phonics
Tic-Tac-Toe Phonics
Starfall
Starfall is a favorite for younger students who are learning their letter sounds and sight words. The site also provides practice with numbers, beginning adding and subtraction, calendar skills, and colors.
Starfall
Starfall
Free Rice
For each answer your student answers correctly, Free Rice donates 10 grains of rice through the World Food Program to help end hunger. Your student can choose vocabulary, grammar or math fact problems.
Watch as their bowl of rice fills up!
Free Rice
Watch as their bowl of rice fills up!
Free Rice
Free Reading Puppet App: Puppet Pals and Sock Puppets
Students love this app because they are the puppeteers. Students take turns reading a story and have their own puppet that moves and opens its mouth the same time your student reads. This app is beneficial because the students hear themselves read, increase fluency and practice voice inflection.
Try them out!
Math Home Activities
Parents often ask me what their students can be doing at home to improve their skills in math. Here is a list of easy to implement, no hassle tricks!
Math
Make flash cards of facts.
Math computer games.
Time them to see how many math facts they know in 1 minute.
Oral counting, count by 1’s, 2’s, 3’s 5’s, 10’s.
Read numbers on street signs, bill boards, at the grocery
store, everywhere!
Review math papers that come home.
Have your child “teach” you how to do a math skill.
Hand your child a handful of coins and have them tell you
how much it is worth.
Discuss time, fractions, and measurement often.
Language Arts Home Activities
Parents often ask me what their students can be doing at home to improve their skills in reading. Here is a list of easy to implement, no hassle tricks!
Echo reading: You
read a few words (or a sentence) and your child copies you. This teaches them
how to fluidly read a sentence, pausing when they should. You can make it fun
and use funny voices they have to copy too.
Cloze reading: As you are reading out loud to them stop reading and they have to say the next word. This makes them stay focused on where you are, increases vocabulary and helps with comprehension.
Language Arts
READ DAILY! Out loud to your child and have them read by
themselves.
Repeated readings. Read the same thing over the course of a
few days.
Level readers available at the library.
Have your child predict what the story will be about before reading.
Have them retell what happened after the story is finished.
Ask WHO, WHERE, WHAT, WHEN questions after
reading a story
Spelling words
- · Flashcards
- · In shaving cream
- · Write on whiteboards
- · Type on computer
- · Magnetic letters
- · Break words into chunks (ch, sh, tch, ed)
Time their reading and have them try and beat their score.
Comic or joke books
Help them read a recipe and enjoy a yummy treat together (it
also helps with their math)
Cloze reading: As you are reading out loud to them stop reading and they have to say the next word. This makes them stay focused on where you are, increases vocabulary and helps with comprehension.
Blending: On the word "ship" your
student might break up their sounds like "sh(break)i (break)-p"
instead of keeping their sounds together in one breath. Something that
will help is to get a slinkey and when they sounds out a word have them stretch
the word out in one breath while they stretch the slinkey.
Free Spelling App: Spelling Magic
Spelling is fun and easy with ABC Spelling Magic.
Teaches the sounds of the letters and how to build words.
Teaches the sounds of the letters and how to build words.
Go here to download it.
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