Parent Help

Because your child’s education is a partnership with us, we have prepared a list of suggestions to help you at home.

Religion

1. Pray with your child on a regular basis.
2. Discuss the current religion chapter from the book with your child when it comes home.
3. Attend the weekend Mass with your child.
4. Be a Christian example and role model for your child.
5. Help memorize 4th grade prayers - Morning Offering, Memor’are, and the Angelus

Reading

1. Encourage your child to read nightly. (At least 15 minutes per night)
2. Let your child read aloud to you.
3. Let your child see you read.

Math

1. Reinforce math concepts with your child as you see them on the papers that go home.
2. Use flashcards and other methods to help your child master his/her math facts - all operations.
3. Help your child recognize the practical application of math concepts in everyday life.

English

1. Help and encourage your child to write sentences or short stories on his/her own and read them to you.
2. Help your child to correct sentences with mistakes and tell you what the mistakes were in the sentence.

Social Studies

1. Continually study each region's states, capitals, and abbreviations.
2. Study past regions and current regions.
3. Go over lesson vocabulary with your child weekly.
4. Study with them before a test.

Science

1. Go over lesson vocabulary with your child weekly.
2. Use the graphic organizer to help them study for tests.

Spelling

Study Suggestions-

1. Have your child write each word in colored glue on index cards. When the cards dry, he/she can trace the word with his/her finger to practice spelling the word.
2. Have your child arrange magnet letters on your refrigerator or metal file cabinet to spell his/her words.
3. Have your child take a practice test outside using sidewalk chalk.
4. Have your child attach clothespins with letters on them to a ruler to spell his/her words.
5. Have your child spell his/her spelling words out of pipe cleaners.
6. Have your child highlight his/her spelling words in the newspaper.
7. Code your child’s spelling words using a telephone keypad and let him/her decode them. (*You can even practice math by having your child discover how much each word is worth by adding the numbers together.)
8. Have your child cut letters out of a magazine, and paste them together to make the spelling word.
9. Have your child write on your palm or your back each spelling word calling out letters as he/she writes.

Please don't hesitate to call me with any concerns or questions. If you send a note or leave a message at school (757-5500 ext. 119), I will get back to you as soon as possible.