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Email: asayles@tuxedoschooldistrict.com
Mail: 11 Hillside Ave.,
Tuxedo NY, 10987
Fax Number: (845) 351-3402 (GGM)
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Grade Level(s)
Taught:
K-2 Response to Intervention (RTI)
K-3 Special Education
Department: Special Education
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Ideas for Home: 
 
Alphabet/Phonics:
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Magnet
letters- have your child try to put the alphabet in order
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Label items
around the house with words or the beginning sound (ex. “door” or
“d” for door-put the label on the item)
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Read road
signs aloud as you drive down the street, then encourage your child to do the
same
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Have your
child go on an alphabet hunt through the house. Have them look for everything that starts
with “c”. Clock, cat, etc.
Word Work:
- “Rhyme Time”- have your child try
to rhyme items or words. (mom, tom….dad, had, sad, etc.)
- As you drive down the street, tell your child, “I spy a house, that rhymes
with mouse.” “I see a
car, that rhymes with ?”
- Take your child’s spelling words or
word wall words and use them in sentences, write them and put them
around the house, or on the bathroom mirror. This will ensure that your child will
see them and become familiar with them during the week.
Reading:
- Reading to your child is great---but please have
your child read to you too. They
should read every night!
- Take a picture walk with your child. Go through a book and talk about the pictures. This way your child will know what
words and information to expect to see when they read the book. This is 1 of the first comprehension
strategies that your child will use as a reader.
- Preview a book before you have your child
read it to you. Look for sight
words such as, “they.”
Then tell your child that they should “hunt” for this
word as they read. They can put a
sticky note on the word each time they find it.
 
Writing:
- Have your child write in a journal.
- Have your child write a letter.
- Write your child little notes and leave them around
the house. Then, they can write
you back. You can even have a
mailbox just for mail to and from the family!
 
Math:
- Kids today do not often see their parents
using change to pay for items---so, “charge” your child do
to things around the house. Have them
pay you 5 cents for dinner, or 17 cents to go to bed. Let them do the same thing to
you. This will ensure that they
become familiar with using money each day.
- Make sure that you have an analog clock in
the house. Use sticky notes to
put the 5 minute intervals on the clock.
Tell you child that you are eating at 6:30. Encourage them to monitor the clock
and tell you the time periodically.
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