Ask Your Child

Ask your child about estimation.  What is an estimate?  What can happen with an estimate; can an estimate be just about right, too small/short, or too big/long?

Ask your child what different means.  How are a table and a horse different?  How are baby animals different from adult animals?  What are animals like in different parts of the world?  How are a car and a bus different?

Ask your child how the rooster was different than the other characters in the story There's a Billy Goat in the Garden.  How was the bee different?

What other differences can your child think of?

Ask your child if sizes can be different.  How about differences in movements?  What about sounds; how can sounds be different?  What if letters went in a different order--is the word at different from ta?

Different, move, size, sound, and estimate are words we worked on this week.

We're almost through learning how to write all capital letters correctly.  Ask your child how a C and an O are different.  Ask your child how an O and a Q are different.

Ask your child about syllables.  We've been working on listening for how long words sound and how we can break them up into parts.  We break up syllables with clapping in our classroom.  Give your child some words and ask him or her to clap the syllables.  Careful--the one syllable words can be tricky!

Ask your child to think of all of the words he or she can than begin with the letter n.  See how long the list can get!