Tips to help your child at home: Practice the multiplication facts with your child regularly. Play mental math games. Practice telling time and thinking about elapsed time. Read to and with your child.  Have your child read to you. Have your child keep a journal or log of some kind and write in it every day. Allow your child to help you "measure" and "plan" at home. Model making estimates and predictions as you work at home. Encourage your child to write in cursive. Please check and sign your child's agenda every night.