Often, parents will leave conferences wondering what they can do to support their third grader more at home.  Conferences are meant to identify areas of concerns and areas that are strengths for your child.  They should also serve as a discussion starter with your child about setting new goals for the next marking period. With that in mind, I’ve provided you with some resources that you can use at home to make goal setting and goal reaching fun for your third grader!

Making Goals

Your child completed a Student Reflection form in class.  Read through this with your child at home and talk about 1 or two areas that they would like to work on for the second marking period.  Make it a goal using the following sheet and post it on your refrigerator!  That way, your child has a daily reminder of what he/she is working toward every day when walking out the door for school.

Making A Goal Printable

Resources

Math

We have many resources listed in the links section (located on the right side of the Home Page of this blog) for math.  We have Xtra Math and Freckle.  Your child is very familiar with how to use these links and their accounts are already up and running.  The passwords and usernames are located in the front of your child’s planner.  Spending 15 minutes a day can be very beneficial.  Try not to overload your child with extra work.  Sometimes more is just more.  It’s not really effective to have your child spend more than 30 minutes working on something in one sitting.  We all need breaks and learning should be fun for third graders.

Reading

I want to encourage you to have your child continue to read every day.  It doesn’t matter what they read as long as they follow the I Pick Good Fit books guidelines.

Here are some interesting statistics for the impact that daily reading has on student success: