October 19th, 2009 | Author: Mrs. Monteiro
Today your child is bringing home a special activity for you to play together. Take-Home Games are designed to help parents and children experience a variety of hands-on literacy and math activities together. The activities will give you an opportunity to reinforce important early literacy and math skills with engaging practice.
Included in the Take-Home Games are activities and a set of plastic letters and frogs to use in conjunction with the activities. These materials are yours to keep at home to use with each activity for many weeks. Please take very special care of these letters and frogs and store them in a special place as it costs $10 to replace each set. When we are finished with the activities the set of letters and frogs will need to be returned to school.
Each Monday your child will bring home a new activity to play that week. Please read the activity description and work with your child to explore the activity. You may choose to do the activity just once or you may choose to play the game several times during the week.
These activities are also a great way for you to get to know your child as a learner. Take cues from your child: if he/she seems engaged and motivated, play the game often but, if he/she seems too tired, bored, or frustrated play less often. Be creative! Feel free to make the game more challenging if it seems too easy for your child or less challenging if it seems too hard. And remember, this is supposed to be fun! If either of you are feeling frustrated, put it away! Your child is still very young and works very hard all day in school. It may be too much to ask to keep up that level of attention at home as well.
At the end of the week, please take a few minutes to complete the Show And Tell sheet included with each activity and send it back to school. This form is a way for you to let me know about you, and your child’s, feelings about the game as well as his/her success or frustration with the activity. You may keep the activity cards at home as it can be fun and helpful (good practice) to revisit the activities.
I hope you enjoy the activities and the time spent with your child as you get some insight into what they are learning in school.
Hi Amy,
As a mystery reader(scheduled for 10/30), please let em know if you will be picking out the book OR should I have something prepared. We usually go to the Westwood library to pick out something festive for the day before Halloween. And also confirm the timing of when I should be there.
Thanks and I’m looking forward to this ever so much!
Best,
Wanda