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February STEAM Challenge Check out this article and find fun activities to do together. If your family completes an activity, take a picture and send it me, Mrs. Karn to be put into a bucket for a prize. | Literacy TipReading Focus: Fluency | Grade: K-5 Reading aloud to your child is appropriate across all ages. Try reading using different voices for the different characters in the story. Ask questions as you read! “What do you think will happen?” “Do you think that was a good idea?” “I wonder what the character will do now!” Talk aloud about your own thinking as you read aloud. “I don’t think that was a good idea for the character to do that!” “If that was me in the story I would have been scared!” Make connections to the story as you read. “I went on a roller coaster once, I loved it!” “When my friend did that to me, it hurt my feelings.” “I remember when I did that, it didn’t turn out so well.” For more ideas, blogs and videos for parents and reading go to:
| Math Tip Looking for some math games to play. Check out the pdf (acing_math) below about games to play where all you need is a deck of cards. |
February STEAM Challenge
Literacy Tip
Reading Focus: Fluency | Grade: K-5
Reading aloud to your child is appropriate across all ages.
Try reading using different voices for the different characters in the story.
Ask questions as you read! “What do you think will happen?” “Do you think that was a good idea?” “I wonder what the character will do now!”
Talk aloud about your own thinking as you read aloud. “I don’t think that was a good idea for the character to do that!” “If that was me in the story I would have been scared!”
Make connections to the story as you read. “I went on a roller coaster once, I loved it!” “When my friend did that to me, it hurt my feelings.” “I remember when I did that, it didn’t turn out so well.”
For more ideas, blogs and videos for parents and reading go to:
Math Tip
