Recpes for Success

Practical Activities to Help Your Child Succeed

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SCIENCE

Washoe County School District

Title I Program
MAY 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.

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Study Stars
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STUDYING

Your young scie ntist is sure to enjoy this chemistr y expe riment. Ingredients: 3 dull pennies, so 1 ap, water, 4 cup lemon Ask your youn juice, 1 tsp. salt gste water. How wel r to clean one penny using so l does it work? ap and Next, let her di another penny p into lemon juic e. Are the resu better? Finally, lts have your child add the salt to lemon juice an the d di penny is the sh p in the third penny. Which iniest? Explain that pe nnies are made of copper. Whe copper mixes w n ith air, copper ox makes pennies ide forms and look dull. Lem on some of the ox ide. Adding salt juice will remove works even bett er.

Shiny Penn ies

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GEOMETRY Ask your youn gste boxes (cereal, cr r to take apart acker) and flatt en them out. Then , have him refo ld them to see ho w th together to form e shapes fit th him draw his ow e box. Idea: Let n box design on sheet of cardbo a ard. He can cut it out and put it together to see what his box looks like.

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Recpes for Success

Practical Activities to Help Your Child Succeed

MAY 2013

Lucky 11

MATH

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VOCABULAR Y Say a short sent ence such as, I went to the st ore. Then, toss a ball back and forth with your child . With each toss , the person who catches the ball has word of the sent to change one ence to the store.) Se . (I walked e how long you and your yo ungster can keep goingon each bounce, she will work on vocabu lary skills.

racter Cha Corner

HONESTY As a family, talk about why its important to be honest. Have each person name one or two ways to be honest. Examples: Admit when youve done something wrong. Dont make things up to impress others. CARING Have your youngster collect clippings of pictures from old magazines. When someone needs to be cheered up, he can paste pictures onto colored paper to make a card. Let him add a thoughtful message and mail or deliver the card. GOAL SETTING Invite family members to make a list of three skills they want to learn this summer. Examples: juggling, tennis, origami. Post the lists on the refrigerator or a bulletin board. Then, see if anyone wants to share your goalyou can work together to learn!
READING Play a game of hide-and-s ee twist. Instea d of countin k with a g, th It chooses a short poem e person who is to read alou the other pla d while yers hide. W hen he finishes th e poem, he looks for the hidden players. The last person found becom es reads another It and poem.

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CREATIVITY A sheet of aluminum foil can boost your childs imagination! Suggest that she scrunch and mold the foil into different shapes. She might create a sculpture of her favorite animal or make letters to spell her name. Tip: This is a great boredombuster in the car.

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