Family Engagement Thursdays
Families! YOU are your child’s first and most influential teacher. As such you have so much to offer your student! To encourage family engagement at home, we are offering family engagement Thursdays. Each week there will be (1) activity to do at home to be completed prior to Friday. We’ll list the activities for the month in Hembree Highlights and offer reminders via social media. Your student will have the opportunity to receive a *bonus* Hawk’s ticket for participating (look out for more details from your teacher) We’ll include tips and tricks to get the conversation started and reinforce learning from the school day. Please spend anywhere from 10-20 minutes with your child engaging with them around their day at school and encouraging their social and emotional skills. We’ll also encourage your to practice other skills inclusive of Math and ELA. Please feel free to reach out to me Lucy Gilbert, Title I Parent Liaison (gilbertl2@fultonschools.org) with any questions.
Due August 16th (Social-Emotional)
Families- take a moment to ask your student about their day. Often, we get one-word answers to the questions we ask (How was your day? Fine.). Feel free to use these sample questions below to dig a little deeper. Ask follow-up questions and feel free to ask our own questions specific to your child.
1. Name one word that describes your day.
2. If you could change one thing about the day, what would it be?
3. When were you the happiest today?
4. Did you get to see your friends from last year/ or make any new friends?
5. What are you most excited about learning this year?
Due August 23rd (Language Arts)
For younger students at bedtime, invite your child to pick their favorite book, but before reading, ask them “What do you love about this book?” Ask your child to show you their favorite page in the book as you read.
For older students at bedtime, share a chapter book with your child and alternate reading to each other (every other page or every other chapter). Then have a brief conversation about what you read with prompts to include: Who is your favorite character and why? What do you think is going to happen next? Pick out a detail of what you read and discuss.
Due August 30th (Math)
Math Fluency - One of the best indicators for success in math is the ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide fluently. And this is great news because practicing is easy! For very young children, this can mean counting forward and backward to 10, 20, or even 100. In the primary grades, adding to 10 is a skill that will translate into so many other mental math strategies later on. As students move into grades 3-5, we can build their multiplication/division fluency by teaching them to decompose multi-digit numbers to make computations mentally. If you need more ideas or guidance on helping to improve your child's math fluency, please reach out to our Math Coach, Joey Waller, wallerj@fultonschools.org
