READING HINTS

READING ACTIVITIES YOU CAN DO WITH YOUR CHILD

At the Library: How To Help Your Child Pick A Book that Is Not Too Easy and Not Too Hard: The Five Finger Rule
How to Help Your Child Decide if a Book is Easy or Hard to Read
How to read easy medium and hard books with your child
Helping your child with reading comprehension Part I
Helping your child with reading comprehension Part II
Helping your child with reading comprehension Part III
Learning from the title of the story
Making Predictions Using the Picture on the Front Cover and in the Story
Learning from the title of the story Part II
Learning from the title of the story Part III
Author of the book
Keep a Journal of All the Books You Read Together
Learning the Parts of a Book
Different genres of books and writing
What kinds of writing
How to read a telephone book

 

READING A BOOK WITH YOUR CHILD
WORD STUDY
WRITING
UNDERSTANDING NUMBERS
NUMBERED GAMES
COUNTING BY MULTIPLES OF 2, 5, 10, 25
NUMBER WORDS AND NUMBERS
FRACTIONS
CALCULATORS
OPERATIONS
MEASUREMENT
TIME
LINEAR MEASUREMENT
TEMPERATURE
MONEY
PERIMETER AND AREA
CAPACITY, VOLUME AND MASS
GEOMETRY AND SPATIAL SENSE    
TWO-DIMENSIONAL SHAPES
THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHAPES
GRIDS AND COORDINATE GEOMETRY
DATA MANAGEMENT AND PROBABILITY
SCIENCE
RELATING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY TO THE WORLD OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL
MATTER AND MATERIALS
EARTH AND SPACE SYSTEMS

READING HINTS

READING ACTIVITIES YOU CAN DO WITH YOUR CHILD

At the Library: How To Help Your Child Pick A Book that Is Not Too Easy and Not Too Hard: The Five Finger Rule
How to Help Your Child Decide if a Book is Easy or Hard to Read
How to read easy medium and hard books with your child
Helping your child with reading comprehension Part I
Helping your child with reading comprehension Part II
Helping your child with reading comprehension Part III
Learning from the title of the story
Making Predictions Using the Picture on the Front Cover and in the Story
Learning from the title of the story Part II
Learning from the title of the story Part III
Author of the book
Keep a Journal of All the Books You Read Together

TEMPERATURE

1.  This week, please look in the newspaper to find out the daily temperature.  Sometimes, the newspaper will give a daytime temperature and a nighttime temperature.  Why are the two sometimes different? (the warmth of the sun disappears when the sun sets in the evening).

2.  This week, ask your child what the temperature is in the wintertime?  What is the temperature in the summertime?  What kinds of clothes do people wear in the winter?  What kinds of clothes do people wear in the summer?

3.  Ask your child to draw a picture of themselves and what they would be wearing in the summer and in the winter.

         4.  This week, talk with your child about what happens to water when it gets very cold.  For example, what happens to water when the temperature is colder than 0 degrees Celsius? As an experiment, ask you child to feel the inside of your freezer.  Help her to find words to describe it (this can be done in English or in your home language).  Take some water and put it in a dish.  Stick a piece of tape to show the water line in the bowl.  Then, put the bowl of water in the freezer and leave it in overnight.  The next day, look at the water in the bowl.  What did it do?  Ask your child to look at the waterline.  Did the water get bigger when it froze? (the answer should be yes – water is the only material that actually gets bigger when it freezes).  Talk about what happens to water in the sky when the temperature falls below 0 degrees Celsius (i.e., it turns into ice, or snow).

         5.  This week, talk with your child about what happens to water when it gets very hot.  What happens to water when the temperature is above 100 degrees Celsius? (it boils and turns into steam).  Put a pot of water on the stove.  Make sure your child stands well back and watches (This would be a good time to talk about how to be safe in the kitchen!)  Soon the water will begin to boil.  Look at the steam rising from the pot.  Let your child know that the clouds in the sky are like this steam.  Take a cold mirror and hold it over the steam.  Let your child watch as the mirror turns the steam back into water.  Let them know that when the temperature gets colder, the steam will turn back into water.