Please take some time to help your student practice writing their names. We are working on capitalizing our first letter but keeping the others lowercase! all of the class needs this practice. I would be more than happy to print out their names to trace and then space for them to write...please just let me know.
Decomposing
For example, a way to break up 10 is 5 and 5...or 9 and 1. You can simply give your student a number to work with! In the classroom, manipulatives such as cubes are available to help them. You can encourage your child to draw a picture or use something you have at home as a visual.
Subtracting
Some of the ways I teach this is using our fingers, using a number line, drawing a picture, or simply counting down. I provide cubes for those who need more of a visual. Please practice some problems at home! It is a hard concept for them and they want to continue to add instead of take away. Start with numbers under 10.
Tens and ones (place value)
Ask your student to tell you how many 10's and how many 1's are in 26 (2 tens and 6 ones). Practice numbers all the way up to 100!! Also test them by doing the opposite....draw out 5 rectangles and 5 small squares (55) and ask them what the number is. We have also worked on adding large numbers using 10's and 1's to help us.
Ending Sound
Say some words to your student and ask "what is the last sound in this word?" We are doing a great job at initial sound, but we tend to get confused with the final sound.
Letter Sounds
Knowing each letter sound is so important! Even though we focus only one letter at at time, it is extremely beneficial for your student to know all of the letter sounds sooner rather than later. They need to know the letter sounds in order to sound out words and read!
Reading
When reading with your student at home, make sure they are not guessing an unknown based JUST based on the picture! We are talking a lot about looking at the first letter of words to help us figure out the word.