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Tips For Helping Your Child Succeed

 

Grades K - 3

  • Read to your child

  • Have your child read to you

  • Have your child write in a journal

  • Add new and interesting books to your home library

  • Use flashcards to practice addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts at home

  • Encourage your child to read biographies

  • 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

  • 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/exhibits

  • Listen to music together

  • Walk, hike or bike together to the library or other places of interest

  • Encourage your child to join an organized activity (baseball, cheerleading, basketball, etc.)

  • Check with your local park district or other 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

  • 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-ups

  • 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 interest and activities

Grades 4 - 6

  • 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 he/she can join

  • Visit a Chicago 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, etc.) 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 other fine arts performances with your child

  • Take your child to the Art Institute 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

  • Attend the Chicago Students Science Fair

  • Monitor your child's TV viewing

  • Watch television programs and videos together

  • Help your child follow instructions

Grades 7 - 8

  • 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 applications

  • Select one stock and follow its daily increases or decreases for a week

  • Have discussions with your child about careers that require 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 impacts lifestyles

  • Help your child understand both sides of a current issue and encourage him/her to research to find out more about the issue

  • Discuss advertisements and how they influence product choices

  • 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 Illinois 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 Chicago

  • 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

 

 

 

 

 


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