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Grade 1 - Math

Day 1: Dictate to your child five different numbers less than 50. Have your child write these numbers.


Day 2: Have your child recite one number less than a number, i.e. What number is one less than thirty? etc.


Day 3: Have your child make an addition math problem out of ten pennies.


Day 4: Have your child make a subtraction math problem out of ten pennies.


Day 5: Have your child fill in the missing number 32, 31, 30, __, 28, 27, 26, __, 24, 23, __, __, 20, 19, 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11.


Day 6: Have your child count coins less than 10 cents. Have them write the dollar notation $ .10 or 10¢.


Day 7: Have your child count as high as they can by fives.


Day 8: Have your child count as high as they can by tens.


Day 9 Write several two digits numbers on a piece of paper and have your child read the numbers to you.


Day 10: Have your child count on by one from any given number. For example, start at 27, have your child count on by ones.


Day 11: Have your child count on by fives from any number presented in increments of fives. For example, start at forty five, have your child count on by fives.


Day 12: Have your child count on by tens from any number presented in increments of tens. For example, start at fifty, have your child count on by tens.


Day 13: Have your child tell you how many nickels are in a dime, in a quarter, in fifteen cents, in twenty cents.


Day 14: Have your child read a face clock and tell you what hour it is.


Day 15: Have your child count on by ones from any number in the nineties, making the transition to over 100.


Day 16: Have your child name all the odd numbers between zero and twenty.


Day 17: Have your child name all the even numbers between zero and twenty.


Day 19: Have your child write numbers 10 more than a tens number. For example write the number ten more than 30.


Day 20: Have your child write numbers 10 less than a tens number; write the number ten less than 30.


Day 21: Have your child invent addition math problems with twenty pennies.


Day 22: Have your child invent subtraction math problems with twenty pennies.


Day 23: Have your child write numbers that are 10 more or 10 less than any number less than 100. For example: Write the number ten more than 23.


Day 24: For clock review, have your child count up and back by fives from any number ending in 5 or 0. (25 + 5=? ) Pick a range that is comfortable for your child, for instance numbers between 10 - 30, etc.


Day 25: Find an interval between two given times. For instance , "How long is it between 4:15 and 4:30? (15 minutes)"


Day 26: Have your child write a two digit number with: a. 7 in the ones place. b. Write a two digit number with a 7 in the tens place.


Day 27: Have your child write relationships between numbers, i.e. 17 is less than 20 (17< 20 ).


Day 28: Have your child add 0 and 1 to any number, i.e. 6 + 0 = ? (6), 19 + 1 = ? (20).


Day 29: Have your child write three digit numbers and identify numbers in the ones place, tens place and hundreds place.


Day 30: Have your child add multiples of tens to other multiples of tens, i.e. 20 + 50 = ? (70).


Day 31: Have your child count backward and forward by tens from any two digit number (from 30).


Day 32: Have your child count backward and forward from any three digit number (from 310).


Day 33: Have your child read a three digit number.


Day 34: Have your child add multiples of ten to any two digit number, counting by tens; 37+20 = ? (57).


Day 35: Have your child subtract multiples of ten to any two digit number; 48 - 20= ? (28).


Day 34: Have your child identify a three digit numer as hundreds, tens and ones (247 = 2 hundreds, 4 tens and 7 ones).


Day 35: Have your child make the smallest and largest number from any given number ( 618/smallest # = 168, largest # =861).


Day 36: Practice simple one digit addition facts.


Day 37: Practice simple one digit subtraction facts.


Day 38: Have your child read a thermometer and compare temperatures over two different days; yesterday was how much warmer or colder than today?


Day 39: Have your child read a thermometer each day for two weeks and compare similiar days (last Tuesday with Tuesday of the present week).


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Grade 1 - Reading



Day 1: Have your child say five words that begin with "sl", "sp", "st", "str","sm", and "sn".


Day 2: Have your child write 5 words that rhyme with "big", "up", and "fish".


Day 3: While on vacation have your child send a few postcards to friends and relatives.


Day 4: While in a restauraunt have your child read the menu by himself.


Day 5: Have your child write her own poem.


Day 6: Have your child tell 5 words that begin with "sp", and Sp__l.


Day 7: Have your child write the names of eight colors and draw a rainbow.


Day 8: Have your child tell how these words are different.; blue-blew, knew-new, know-no, here-hear.


Day 9: Have your child make a book about 10 possible pets and label them.


Day 10: Have your child identify ten different street signs.


Day 11: Have your child write his address and phone number.


Day 12: Have your child draw a picture of a noisy activity and write about it.


Day 13: Have your child listen to a story and repeat it in her own words.


Day 14: Have your child visit the library and take out a book about dinosaurs.


Day 15: Have your child write about a place he would like to visit.


Day 17: Have your child say the months of the year in order. How many can he spell?


Day 18: Have your child tell the opposite of some, white, many, all, off, open and tall.


Day 19: Have your child name 5 things that begin with "str". Can he make a story with them?


Day 20: Have your child search the newspaper for ads selling school supplies.


Day 21: Have your child make list of school supplies.


Day 22: Have your child write 5 words that rhyme with "same".


Day 23: Have your child write the names of her 5 favorite foods.


Day 24: Have your child write the days of the week in order.


Day 26: Have your child change the last letter in MAN and make 3 words. Make sentences with each hword.


Day 27: Have your child write about her favorite day this summer.


Day 28: Visit the library.

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