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Homework Help Basics Parents are often unsure how best to help their children with homework, and as a result, many children don't maximize their homework time. Below are some suggestions from the United States Department of Education (USDE), www.ed.gov, that establish general homework and studying guidelines. Tailor these guidelines to match your children's needs, and you'll be on your way to improving their academic experience and performance. Be Proactive First, show through your own actions that education and homework are important activities. Put an emphasis on education at home in the following ways: Talk to your child. Agree on a regular time each day for homework. Stick to the schedule! Provide your child with necessary homework supplies and resources. Set a good example by reading and writing, showing that these activities are valuable for other reasons than just school. Stay in touch with your child's teachers. When you are proactive in your children's education, you are helping them cultivate values that are needed to succeed in school and in life. Keep in Touch Next, monitor your children's homework assignments. Make a point to ask your children about their daily assignments, and help them schedule an appropriate amount of time to complete each one. Ask your children's teachers how involved you should be in various assignments. Some homework tasks children attempt without help, while others are intended to get the entire family involved. By learning more about assignments and their accompanying due dates, you will be better able to monitor your children's skills and progress. Be There While you should not take over your children's homework, you can certainly provide helpful instruction. When providing guidance, learn about and understand your children's learning style. People learn differently and this knowledge affects the type of help your children will need to comprehend new material. Additionally, help them to become more organized. Children can be disorganized and lose assignments. When you show your children how to keep an organized notebook or folder, you enable them to keep track of their homework. Know When to Find Outside Help Finally, if your children continue to struggle with their homework, contact a teacher or counselor at school. They will be able to look through your children's work and make recommendations that would help your children with learning. The recommended help may include conventional, online, or peer tutoring. The most important thing for you to do is to keep open the lines of communication with your children and their teachers.

Working Together for Student Success                                          Issue 1                                  January 2008

Elementary Grammar: Learning Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives and Other Parts of Speech Learning the various parts of speech can be difficult for third to sixth grade students. Read on to gain an in depth understanding of the grammatical classifications your elementary student is expected to know and how to help him or her master the concepts. The parts of speech are typically taught to students in grades three through six. An explanation for each grammatical classification, along with examples, is included below to help parents children their children grammatical lessons. Verb: Expresses actions, events or states of being. For example, in the sentence 'Billy throws the ball,' 'throws' is the verb. Adverb: Modifies a verb, adjective, phrase, clause or another adverb. Adverbs can be found in various parts of a sentence but usually ends with '-ly.' For example, in the sentence 'Billy quickly throws the ball,' 'quickly' is the adverb. Noun: Used to name an abstract idea, animal, person, place or thing. Sentences typically contain more than one noun. For example, in the sentence 'Billy met his friends at the zoo,' the words 'Billy,' 'friends' and 'zoo' are all nouns. Pronoun: A word that replaces a noun to prevent repetition of the same words. For example, in the sentence 'He was glad they enjoyed looking at exotic animals,' the words 'he' and 'they' are pronouns replacing the nouns 'Billy' and 'friends.' Adjective: Describes or quantifies a noun or pronoun. Adjectives usually precede the word they are modifying. For example, in the sentence 'Billy washed his aqua shirt at the Laundromat,' the word 'aqua' is an adjective that modifies 'shirt.' Preposition: Acts as a link between nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence. For example, in the sentence 'Billy washed his aqua shirt at the Laundromat,' the word 'at' is the preposition. Conjunction: Also serve as a link between words or phrases. Sometimes conjunctions also act as prepositions or adverbs. For example, in the sentence 'Billy swims at the pool but not at the lake,' the word 'but' is the conjunction. Interjection: Conveys emotion in a sentence. For example, in the sentence 'Ouch, I stubbed my toe,' 'ouch' is the interjection. One way a parent can help their child to master the parts of speech is by creating a grammar poster. Ask your child to create this chart with you. By writing out definitions and examples of the grammatical parts of speech, the elementary student will reinforce the concepts in his mind. When working on this project, discuss the various grammatical concepts with your child. If they seem to be confused about any of the classifications, try to demonstrate as many examples as possible. If your child's elementary school issues English textbooks, you can find some lessons in the book that would help your child better understand these parts of speech. Try telling a story to your child without adjectives. Ask if the story sounded different or 'strange'. Encourage your elementary student to discuss what was missing and how it affected the story. Tell the story again adding five to ten adjectives. See if your child noticed a difference and was able to locate which words were the adjectives. Once your child has mastered this activity, ask him or her to write a story without adjectives. When they're finished, read it to see how they did.

LEARNING SCIENCE We are studying rocks and soil and Fossils !

We are well into multiplication. Please quiz your child daily on their times tables. (The Dollar Tree has flash cards)

Mrs. Reynolds

 

 

 

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