Maths Tips
Your Child needs lots of experiences in making, counting, drawing and talking about numbers. Make connections for your child by explaining how numbers and counting are a part of everyday life. You may feel that the maths your child is doing at school is different from how you were taught, but you will still be able to support your child in many ways.
1 Playing shop with toys label them with prices written on sticky notes.
2 Collect grocery items and label them with prices cut out of shopping catalogues.
3 Talk about how we pay for items using notes and coins.
4 Make paper money or use play money to buy and sell goods from the shop.
5 Order the food items by height (tallest to the shortest) or by cost (least expensive to most expensive).
6 Introduce kitchen scales to the shop to weigh some foods such as a box of tea bags or a bag of rice and order items by weight.
7 Doing maths together at home before school can involve asking your child to tell you what time you need to leave to be at school on time.
8 Play “I Spy” or other games to identify shapes, numbers and patterns.
9 Dice are a great addition to any toy collection. Roll the dice and say, make or write the numbers identified. Roll the dice and add the numbers together to find the total.
10 Play number games online with your child. Try this website: http://www.abc.net.au/countusin
11 Identify and explain visual patterns on clothing, wrapping paper, crockery, cards and furniture.
12 Use coloured pegs, blocks, beads or cutlery to begin a pattern for your child to continue. For example, red, blue, white, red, blue, white.
13 Encourage your child to draw, create and describe their own patterns. Use them for borders or greeting cards or on material.
14 MEASURING things; measure the height of people in your family on a wall measuring chart.
Writing Tips
1 Learning to write begins with scribble and drawings. This is an important first step and should be encouraged. Support your child to read their writing aloud.
2 Create a space to store and display their writing.
3 Based on your child’s experiences create links between talking, writing and reading.
4 Ask your child to share an experience or something that interests them; rehearing a story verbally helps them build up the vocabulary they need to construct the written version.
5 Ask your child to write about it and if they require assistance ask them what part of the conversation they would like you to write.
6 As your child is talking write down their ideas. Use the child’s language.
7 Ask your child to read back the writing.
8 Your child may want to draw a picture or create something to match the writing.
9 Like reading, writing becomes an everyday activity at home. Let your child see you writing.
10 Write a shopping list or add items to the list and tick off the items as you buy or unpack them.
11 Keep a board to write and read family messages somewhere accessible that your child can add to.
12 Give your child a pad of sticky notes to write reminders for themselves.
13 Plan and write your nightly/weekly menu together.
14 Write captions for photographs in your family photo albums.
15 Write labels for your child’s art works and creations.
16 Make words using magnetic letters and stick them on the fridge.
17 Make and write greeting cards, birthday invitations/cards, and thank you notes to family and friends.
18 Keep a family calendar on display and talk about upcoming events, for example, where, when, and who will be there write down family events.
19 Ask them to have a think and try to convince you of their point of view for example: do they think that Cats are better than Dogs? Why? Why Not?
20 Most importantly have fun with words. Investigate words in dictionaries.
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READING TIP:
If your child makes a mistake that makes sense, let them continue reading to the end of the sentence. Then go back and ask “what word is that?”
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