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Tips for Grades K-3
Ways you can help your child succeed
• Read to your child.
• Have your child read to you.
• Talk, sing, and play with your child.
• Have your child write in a "journal.
• Add new and interesting books to your home library.
• Include your child in family "storytelling times.
• Ask your child to read recipe directions to prepare a meal and help him or her measure the ingredients for that recipe.
• Take your child grocery shopping, and have him or her "estimate the cost of purchases.
• Use flashcards to practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts at home.
• Encourage your child to read biographies.
• Ask your child to think about life without electricity, and discuss his/her responses.
• Discuss with your child that the family is like a team whose members share and work together for everyone's good.
• Discuss different kinds of jobs and careers in the community.
• Share with your child interesting newspaper and magazine articles.
• Show your child, on a map, places the family has visited or will visit.
• Have clay, crayons, paint, paintbrushes, blocks, puzzles, and paper available at home for your child.
• Visit, as a family, museums, zoos, and art exhibits throughout the city. Discuss with your child what he/she sees when viewing the animals or exhibits.
• Listen to music together.
• Walk, hike, or bike together, to the library or to other places of interest.
• Encourage your child to join an organized activity (baseball, cheerleading, basketball, etc.).
• Check with your school or community resources for after-school activities.
• Help your child identify and set fitness goals.
• Teach your child the difference between foods that are healthy for him/her and those that are not.
Becoming Partners
• Talk to your child about the importance of education and homework.
• Meet with your child's teachers early in the school year.
• Attend parent-teacher conferences, open houses, and report card pick-up days.
• Compliment and display your child's work. Praise his/her effort.
• Set a regular place and time for your child to read and do homework.
• Take your child to the library to get a library card. Encourage your child to visit the library often.
• Talk with your child regularly about his/her interests and activities.
Tips for Grades 4-6
Ways you can help your child succeed
• Pack books when you go on trips with your child.
• Have your child keep a journal on family vacations.
• Select words from a story your child has read and have him/her write a paragraph using those words.
• Read poems together and ask your child to identify the words that rhyme.
• Talk to your child about a book he/she is reading; have your child talk about the main characters.
• Use grocery store ads to do comparative shopping.
• Ask your child to explain steps in solving a mathematics homework problem.
• Talk to your child about neighborhood places that offer physical activities that he/she can join.
• Visit a Jersey City Public Library regularly.
• Share, with your child, a newspaper article about current topics in the news.
• Play board games, do puzzles, and build models with your child.
• Help your child calculate his/her favorite players (basketball, baseball, soccer, hockey) sports averages.
• Encourage your child to read many books on a variety of subjects.
• Encourage your child to research a project to be entered into the school's Science Fair or History Fair.
• Visit zoos, conservatories, and botanic gardens together.
• Attend concerts and fine arts performances with your child.
• Take your child to museums and art galleries.
• Subscribe to children's magazines in your child's name.
• Collect data about vehicles that pass you on the road.
• Sing songs with your child.
• Shop at museum stores for exciting gifts.
• Fly kites together. Research kite designs and make variations for better efficiency.
• Monitor your child's TV viewing.
• Watch television programs and videos together.
• Help your child follow instructions.
Becoming Partners
• Talk to your child about the importance of education and homework.
• Meet with your child's teachers early in the school year.
• Attend parent-teacher conferences, open houses, and report card pick-up days.
• Compliment and display your child's work. Praise his/her effort.
• Set a regular place and time for your child to read and do homework.
• Take your child to the library to get a library card. Encourage your child to visit the library often.
• Talk with your child regularly about his/her interests and activities.
Tips for Grades 7-8
Ways you can help your child succeed
• Encourage your child to follow instructions enclosed with toys, games, or items that require assembly.
• Talk with your child about current issues.
• Help your child complete sample college and job applications.
• Select one stock and follow its daily increases or decreases for a week.
• Have discussions with your child about careers that require specialized training and identify high school courses needed for that field.
• Read books about various cultures and identify similarities and differences.
• Model sound spending and saving practices.
• Discuss how supply and demand affect life styles.
• Help your child understand both sides of a current issue, and encourage him/her to do research to find out more about the issue.
• Discuss advertisements and how they influence purchase choices.
• Have your child interview someone who lived through an historical event.
• Encourage your child to watch TV shows and videos related to biography, history, and science.
• Share with your child musical lyrics, and explain how they reflect the times.
• Support your child's membership in organizations.
• Assist your child in studying the U.S. and New Jersey Constitutions.
• Encourage your child to participate in school and/or park district sports activities.
• Expose your child to the fine arts.
• Visit government buildings, financial centers, and ethnic neighborhoods in New Jersey.
• Give educational gifts, such as model-making kits, globes, maps, science toys, games, puzzles, microscopes, and telescopes, to your child.
• Encourage your child to read a variety of literature (fiction, nonfiction, science fiction, and historical fiction).
• Do a home energy audit with your child.
• Take your child to a restaurant and have him/her determine the tip
• Have your child use newspaper ads to determine the amount saved on discounted items.
Becoming Partners
• Talk to your child about the importance of education and homework.
• Meet with your child's teachers early in the school year.
• Attend parent-teacher conferences, open houses, and report card pick-up days.
• Compliment and display your child's work. Praise his/her effort.
• Set a regular place and time for your child to read and do homework.
• Take your child to the library to get a library card. Encourage your child to visit the library often.
• Talk with your child regularly about his/her interests and activities.
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