A couple of dates I want you to be aware of
Open House for Roswell North Elementary
Thursday, August 11
A- L 3:30-4:45
M-Z 5:00-6:15
First Day of School
Monday, August 15 at 7:45
Activities
Parents below are some activities to help enrich your child.
Reminder: The important thing to remember is to have FUN! Children learn through play and FUN!
Literacy:
- Make a travel/summer scrapbook for your child. Have them glue a picture on a piece of construction paper. Ask them what they want to write or say about the picture. Write the sentence they say! Talk about the letters to make the words. Let them try to write the sentence.
- READ! At minimum once a day. It is OK to read the same book over and over again. By doing a repeat reading of the book the child learns to the way language flows, they can predict what will happen next, and gain greater comprehension. Ask them questions about the story. It will amaze you how much more they learn and understand as you continue to read.
- WRITE! Many of us make lists: shopping, grocery, to do, etc. Have your child also make a list of things they want to do that day. Even if they are not forming letters yet allow them to experiement. Scribble is the beginning stages of writing. Encourage your young writer.
- Act out stories. Use a book your child likes (maybe the one you are doing a repeat reading) and create hand puppets to act out the story. Have your child try to retell the story without you.
- Point out words in your environment. When you see any words and you are out and about point them out: McDonalds, carwash, Publix, Stop, etc. The more environmental print you can point out the more your child will realize words have meaning.
Mathematics:
- COUNT! Everything everday! Have them count the tires on a toy car, the number of dolls they have, the number of pages in a book, the number of people sitting at the table. Count things all the time!
- Make necklaces that have patterns. Dye some noodles put on a red noodle, then a blue noodle, a red noodle, then a blue noodle, etc.
- Sort! Have your child help with laundry. Shirts here, shorts here, socks here, and underwear here. Then have them put it away!
Easy Speech and Language Practice for the summer:
- Going to the pool (opportunities for: following directions, turn taking, peer interaction, typical peer models)
- Play dates with typical peers (opportunities for: turn taking, peer modeling for articulation and sentence structure, parallel play or creative play) * suggested to be in a small group
- Designate story time where the child and adult sit down together in a quiet environment and read a story together. Discuss the pictures, what is going on in the story, who is the main character, what are they doing, where are they going, ask to identify: colors, shapes, animals, items, actions. Don’t be afraid to read the same book over and over. After many read throughs see if the child can tell you the story and give a few cues to fill in holes or cues to look at the pictures to assist in the retelling.
- Any kind of cooking activity (pre-made or just helping out with dinner). Tell them what you are doing in each step with simple words or phrasing: cutting or I am cutting meat, washing or I am washing my hands, stirring or I am stirring, spoon or give me spoon please.
- Game Night (opportunities for: social exchange, conversational turn-taking, sequencing, following directions, dealing with change or things not going their way)
- Model clear, steady speech for articulation practice. This can be done anytime and anywhere. Take opportunities when the child asks you what something is or when reading stories together. When you are at the grocery store as you place things in your cart just say the name: tomatoes, milk, bread. You don’t have to make them say it like you do or correct them if they misarticulate. If their speech isn’t as clear as it could when asking a question or making a statement, simply repeat what they said after them allowing them to hear the clear and steady way it should sound. For example: child, “ah wan mi” or “I want milk. Great asking”. Simple exposure to clear and steady speech will build their foundation of speech sounds in English.
