Home+Connections

=Home Connections = These are great activities for students to do with parents or individually at home. Teachers should make preparations in advanced to send students home with appropriate materials needed. These activities are great for all types of learners (visual, auditory, and kinesthetic). [|Making Home and School Connections]



1. **An Envelope of Words:** To encourage your child to practice letter patterns, write the words on paper and cut each letter apart. Place the letters in an envelope, and label it with the word family. Then ask your child to build words. Your child could also write the words he/she makes on paper, chalkboard, markerboard, etc. This activity can be extended to making sentences and cutting them apart to rebuild.



2. **Magnetic Letters:** Invite your child to use magnetic letters to build words on the refrigerator.



3. **Alphabet Cereal:** Have your student write out a list of words that belong to a certain word family. See how many words he/she can spell using alphabet cereal.



4. **Read to Me:** Send home a Dr. Suess book or any book that focuses in on word families. Have your child read the book at home to his/her parents. Together, try and create your own silly short story using word families covered in class. Don't forget to include illustrations! = =