Junior and Senior Infants
1. Talk with your child and encourage your child to talk about things they have done during their day.
2. Sit with your child while they are reading.
3. Read with your child and ask questions to check their understanding.
4. Take your child to the library and read, read, read!
5. Encourage your child to take notice of and read signs in their environment.
6. Recite nursery rhymes with your child.
7. Check and sign homework each day.
8. Make sure your child follows the correct sequence when writing their letters and numbers.
9. Make maths real for your child ie. When shopping encourage your child to count out the number of apples, bananas etc needed.
10. Encourage your child to be active.
For further tips on how to support your child’s learning at home check out the Resources for Parents’ page on the NCCA website.
First and Second Class
1. Talk with your child and encourage your child to talk about things they have done during their day.
2. Sit with your child while they are reading.
3. Read with your child and ask questions to check their understanding.
4. Take your child to the library and read, read, read!
5. Encourage your child to take notice of and read signs in their environment.
6. Spellings and Tables are as important as written homework and need to be checked by a parent/guardian.
7. Check and sign homework each day.
8. Encourage neat handwriting.
9. Make maths real for your child ie. While waiting at the railway gates encourage your child to estimate how many cars are stopped before counting them.
10. Encourage your child to be active.
For further tips on how to support your child’s learning at home check out the Resources for Parents’ page on the NCCA website.
Third and Fourth Class
1. Share the reading of a book with your child.
2. Take your child to the library and read, read, read!
3. Encourage your child to read a range of material ie. novels, factual books, comics, magazines, movie reviews etc.
4. Spellings and Tables are as important as written homework and need to be checked by a parent/guardian.
5. Check and sign homework each day.
6. As part of homework, sit with your child while they are reading.
7. Encourage neat handwriting.
8. Make maths real for your child ie. Take a calculator to the grocery shop and encourage your child to keep track of the cost of the shopping as you add and remove items from the trolley. Use TV guides to work out length of programmes etc.
9. Ask your child mental maths questions ie a litre of petrol costs €1.50. what will 10 litres cost?
10. Encourage your child to be active.
For further tips on how to support your child’s learning at home check out the Resources for Parents’ page on the NCCA website.
Fifth and Sixth Class
1. Check and sign homework each day.
2. As part of homework, sit with your child while they are reading.
3. Take your child to the library and read, read, read!
4. Encourage your child to read a range of material ie. novels, factual books, comics, magazines, movie reviews etc.
5. Encourage your child to write emails, access information online etc
6. Spellings and Tables are as important as written homework and need to be checked by a parent/guardian.
7. Make maths real for your child ie. When buying a new piece of furniture, curtains or carpets get your child involved in measuring the space.
8. Ask your child mental maths questions ie a litre of petrol costs €1.50. What will 10 litres cost?
9. Create opportunities for your child to manage and budget money.
10. Encourage your child to be active.
For further tips on how to support your child’s learning at home check out the Resources for Parents’ page on the NCCA website.
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