This document provides resources for parents to help their children study and improve their grades including: 1) Websites that offer grade-level activities, practice tests, and tips for different subject areas. 2) Directions on how to access online resources through the child's school to find the right materials for their grade level and subject. 3) Suggestions for how parents can be more involved like communicating with teachers, providing materials, and encouraging regular study time.

2. 3. Websites /Instructions- Murphy
Slides 3-12: 3= Why websites help
4=I can’t get my child to study
5=Are we studying the “right” thing
6= Directions to Internet Resources
7= Grade level activities
8= Finding the right Unit of practice
9= Tips on bringing up grades
10= Becoming more involved
11= Additional Websites
12= Internet Browsing Tips
13. Helping your Child Learn Math-Jones
Slides 13-15: 13= Important Things To Know.
14=Problems Can Be Solved Differently
15=Mental Math
16. Parent’s Resource for Mathematics-Jones
8. Card Games- Thweat

3.  Have you ever thought:
 I can’t get my child to study…
 How can I be sure I am getting my child to
study the “right” thing…
 Can I help my child bring up their grades…
 Could I be more involved…

4. I can’t get my child to study…
 Statistics have proven that 75% of students
improve scores, grades, and application
through interactive “games”.
http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2009/12/
07/met_558480.shtml
 Students interest in content also increase by
almost 50% when technology or learning
tools are used. www.learn-with-math-
games.com/

5. How can I be sure I am getting my
child to study the “right” thing…
 Cuffee Center, Recreation Center, and
Neighborhood Centers have internet access.
 Go to http://www.cpschools.com/index.php
 Type Thurgood Marshall in the “Search Box” then
click on Home Page
 Or-set up your child’s Edline Account

6. Directions to Resources Continued
 Once in Thurgood Marshall’s Home Page:
Click on “TME Technology Rod” in the
Bottom right corner.
 From that page: click on your child’s grade
level.

7. Grade level Activities:
 Each Grade level has a separate subject
folder.
 Third grade SOL’s are K-2 review so they
could go back to any grade level.
 4th graders can go back and review 3rd
grade: Math, Science, and Reading because
they are connected.
 5th graders can go back and review 4th grade
all subjects.

8. Once you have chosen your
subject:
 Find the Unit we are on by either:
› asking your child
› looking at their homework
› or finding the last set of activities placed in their
“Notebook”.
 Scroll down: SOL’s for the entire year on
these pages.

9. Can I help my child bring up their
grades…
 Focus on your child’s most difficult subject at first.
 Ex: If your child is struggling with reading comprehension, then
you might want to:
› Go to your child’s last grade level (If they are in 3rd grade-
practice 2nd grade reading activities.)
 At least 20-30 minutes every day should show improvement.
 When your child is stronger in that subject: go to this year’s
grade level and practice those activities.
 Children has quizzes or tests at least once a week, use these
sights to study. They won’t even feel as if they are studying. 

10. Could I be more involved…
 When you are in the Thurgood Marshall
(TME) Home Page: there are links to
additional information.
 Open up your child’s edline account.
 E-mail your child’s teacher and ask: you
could cut things from home and send them in
with your child, send in extra supplies, color
games that will be used during lessons, etc.

11. Additional Websites
 4th Grade-Math
 http://www.rockingham.k12.va.us/resources/elemen
tary/4math.htm
 4th Grade-English
 http://www.rockingham.k12.va.us/resources/elemen
tary/4english.htm
 4th Grade-Science
 http://www.rockingham.k12.va.us/resources/elemen
tary/4science.htm
 4th Grade Virginia Studies
 http://www.rockingham.k12.va.us/resources/elemen
tary/4history.htm

12. Internet Browsing Tips:
 Browse through the Rockingham Website to help guide and
understand SOL’s and activities.
 The more they are practicing anything, the more they will get
better and become more confident.
 This is how I explain homework and studying to students and
even my own children.
 Homework would be considered a “Coach’s Practice” for a
sport.
 Study (computer extra time) would be considered extra practice
for your sport.
 Quizzes and tests are games leading up to the championship.
 SOL’s are the Championship.
 You can’t do well at the Championship without all the Coach’s
and extra practices.

13.  Wrong answers can help
 Be patient, all children want to succeed.
 The wrong answer might be because your
child thinks the question is asking something
else.
 Ask your child to explain how problems are
solved
 You might have learned something the
teacher finds helpful.

14.  Problems may have only one solution.
 There may be many ways to get the right
answer.

15.  Completing SIMPLE math in your head is
important.
 Help children with mental math.
 Encourage your child to estimate.
 Allow your child to use math strategies that
make sense.
 Ask “Is your answer reasonable.”
 Ask to see their notes or work they did that
day in class.

16.  Chesapeake Public School’s Mission Statement
 Chesapeake Public Schools’ Philosophy of
Mathematics Curriculum
 Mathematics Standards of Learning K-5
 Home Activities are located on pages 18-29
 Geometry and Mathematical Vocabulary on
pages 33- 39
› Glossary of Terms for the Elementary Student
› Two Dimensional Objects
› Three Dimensional Objects
 Internet Sites that Support Math Instruction
 Literature List for the Elementary Student