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Want to take a more active role in your son or daughter's
education? Here is your chance...
Seize this opportunity to take a break from your hectic lives and spend some
quality time relating with your child. ACTIVE parents play a HUGE role in guiding
and encouraging children to learn and stay in school. Check out a couple of these
you tube clips stressing the importance of your involvement in motivating and assisting your son or daughter in education.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUmrWz-jC10&feature=related
This “pop quiz” provides awareness into ways parents needing to be approachable,
influential role models despite busy schedules.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exei-sWgmqM&feature=related
Mr. David A. Sanchez offers excellent concrete examples on getting
active in big and small manners.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-p5-QjW7AA&NR=1
This interview answers why parental involvement is so critical
for children and their long term wellbeing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEkMidcy960
This ten minute clip interviews students to get their feedback
on their parents’ roles in school life. Can you relate with any of these
responses? What surprises you?
http://www.greenville.k12.sc.us/greerms/parents/motivate.pdf
Concrete
solutions for Parents: Seven Ways to Motivate Children. An excellent article for parents to steer their child in the
right educational direction!
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/morestuff4.html
A number of assignments in my class
require the students to access a number of internet sites. I want to make sure
your child is safe while on the worldwide web. Please read over this article
to learn ways to keep your child safe on the internet.
One
way to take an active approach with your child is to read with your son or daughter and have meaningful discussions (long
or short) about its content while doing homework, at the dinner, table, or even in the car ride to school. Below is
a link to purchase our next novel, The Landry News. I encourage you to
buy the book and read with your child. It will show him or her that you care
and you want them to succeed.
http://www.amazon.com/Landry-News-Andrew-Clements/dp/0689828683
This is a brief synapses I will have your
child read at the start of the novel. Feel free to read it, too, before you begin
so you have a better idea of the book’s contents.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Landry_News
http://www.greenville.k12.sc.us/greerms/parents/motivate.pdf
This article offers tips that parents can do to assist their fifth grader in literature.
http://math-and-reading-help-for-kids.org/articles/Elementary_concepts%3A_Fifth_grade_reading.html
http://www.helium.com/items/833945-how-to-get-kids-excited-about-writing
Different ways parents can positively influence their child to be enthusiastic about writing, a skill they
will surely need in future education and beyond!
Please feel free to email me at eric.wolffersdorff@mu.edu if you have any questions, comments, or concerns about the class or your son or daughter.
eric.wolffersdorff@mu.edu
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