Recpes for Success

Practical Activities to Help Your Child Succeed

MATH
MEMORY

Washoe County School District

Title I Program
FEBRUARY 2013

Refrigerator Poster
Just hang your Recipes poster on the refrigerator and sneak in an activity when you have a few minutes. These fun activities will help develop school success and positive behavior. Check off each box as you complete the recipe.

Roll Em!
This quick-thinking gam e will let your child practi ce finding and working with hidden numbers. Ingredients: a pair of dic e Explain to your youngst er that the dots on oppo site sides of a die always add up to 7. Then, take turns rolling a pair of dic e to see who can add the unseen sides together the fastes t. Example: If a player rolls a 4 an d a 6, the hidden numb ers would be 3 (7 4) and 1 (7 6). The total would be 4 (3 + 1). On each roll, the first player to shout out the correct total gets one po int. Play 10 rounds. The player with the highest score wi ns. Variation: Older children can use three dice or multiply the hidden numbers.
N OBSERVATIO gsters observaTest your youn rubaking a crayon tion skills by m on. per from a cray , bing. Peel the pa (key l small objects Then, get severa ver it choose one, co coin). Secretly over paper, and rub with a sheet of of the it with the side ur crayon. See if yo e s th child can gues e object and mak at a rubbing th matches yours.

Silly Salad

Build your youn gs with an imagin ters memor y skills ar y salad. Ingredients: m emor y The object of th is game is to be th remembers the longest list of sa e one who lad ingredients. To begin, have your child nam e something th go in a salad (l at ettuce). You sa y a second ingr could and repeat wha edient, t she named (t omatoes and le She adds anothe ttuce). r ingredient an d repeats the w list (chickpeas, hole tomatoes, lettuc e). Keep going un til one of you ca nt remember th items already lis e ted or cant thin k of another in ent. Let the win grediner choose a ne w topic, such as school supplie s.

Antonym Bingo
WEIGH T A newbo rn about 24 elephant weigh s 0 pound s how ma ny of he . Ask your child r it would equal an ta e weigh he lephants weigh ke to t. Let he rself, and r help h her weig er divide ht Also, ha into 240. ve pare an her comele weight to phants other objects. For exam ple, how m bags of s any 5-lb. u a baby e gar equal lephant?

VOCABULARY

his onyms, or opposites, and boost Help your child learn about ant vocabulary. l, pennies Ingredients: paper, pencils, bow narrow). osites (freeze and thaw, broad and Together, think of 25 pairs of opp with five rows each player by drawing a grid Then, make a game board for per box) and erent words on each grid (one and five columns. Write 25 diff l. paper. Place the slips in a bow their opposites on 25 slips of ord from the bowl, finding its opp To play, take turns drawing a wo g it with a penny. site on your board, and coverin ze, he would Example: If a player chooses free er five put a penny on thaw. To win, cov rtically, words in a row first (ve horizontally, or diagonally).

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Recpes for Success

Practical Activities to Help Your Child Succeed

FEBRUARY 2013

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FRIENDSHIP Talk about what makes someone a good friend (sense of humor, caring for others). Then, read a book together, and ask your youngster which character she would like as a friend and why. Finally, let her tell you three qualities that make her a good friend. CONTROLLING ANGER When your child gets angry, have him write a mad memo. He can lose his cool on paper by writing how he feels in capital letters and with exclamation points until he feels better. When hes calm, talk about what made him angry. PEACEFULNESS Together, brainstorm activities that are peaceful and not so peaceful. For example, watching the sun set is peaceful, but watching an action movie isnt. Suggest that your youngster fill a sheet of paper with drawings or magazine pictures of peaceful activities. Then, encourage her to make it a point to do something peaceful every day.
SOCIAL STUDIE S Ask your youngster to name ways peo ple one place get from to (cars, walk another in How man g, camels). y can he think of? For older ch list to a s ildren, limit the ing transport le categor y of ation, suc ha mals or th ings with s aniwheels.

Faraway Lands

READING

te stories. the settings of his favori Let your youngster visit et a travel guide, or the Intern Ingredients: storybooks, has never ry that is set in a place he Have your child pick a sto e) takes nk e Thief Lord (Cornelia Fu t visited. For example, Th to find information abou en, ask him place in Venice, Italy. Th rching the ough a travel guide or sea the location by looking thr Internet. in the setms, foods, and festivals gether, read about custo ing To n an imaginary trip by ask g. Help your youngster pla and tin uld you want to see there? questions like, What wo him r? er be like this time of yea What would the weath

SYMMETRY Kaleidoscopes use mirrors to make images that are symmetrical (with mirrorimage halves). Heres how your child can make his own kaleidoscope picture. Have him fold a paper plate in half and draw a design on one half. He can place the plate with the folded edge at an angle in front of a mirror to see the whole picture.

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