A Parents Role

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A Parents Role

• How to help your child succeed in school!

Amador County Public Schools Office of Curriculum
and Instruction Elizabeth Chapin-Pinotti 217 Rex
Avenue Jackson, CA 95642 209-257-5334 echapin
-pinotti_at_amadorcoe.12.ca.us
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Assets First Standards Second

• What are Developmental Assets?
• Support
• Opportunities
• Boundaries
• Expectations
• Structure

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Be an asset-builder

• Who you are
• Open, honest and active listener
• Committed to maintaining integrity, being
  responsible and promoting positive change in the
  world
• Hopeful and optimistic about young people and the
  future
• Appreciate the strengths and uniqueness of others
• Strive toward caring, respectful relationships
• Wiling to share your assets time knowledge,
  care, experience, wisdom

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Be an asset-builder

• What you do
• Respect and affirm children, try to understand
  them and respect them in return
• Look for the good in others and seek common
  ground with them
• Hold meaningful conversations with young people
  about personal values, beliefs, decision making
  and cultural differences
• Model positive behaviors
• Forgive people when they make mistakes
• Know how to apologize and resolve conflicts
  peacefully
• Encourage young people to succeed in school
• Encourage young people to serve their community

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Assets Most Clearly Related to Academic Success

• Adapted from Search Institute Materials

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Caring School Climate

• Young People feel that their school supports them
  and encourages them. It is a caring place with
  caring individuals with their best interest at
  heart

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Parent Involvement in School

• Parents help with schoolwork, they talk about
  whats going on at school, they ask about
  homework and go to meetings and events

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Time at Home

• Young person is out with friends doing nothing
  less than two nights per week

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Resistance Skills

• Help students resist negative peer pressure and
  dangerous situations

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Personal Power

• Find opportunities to help students identify
  dangerous situations and think of ways to prevent
  them or handle them by making healthy choices

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Planning and Decision Making

• Young Person knows how to plan ahead and make
  safe and healthy choices

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Community Values Youth

• Young person perceives that adults in the
  community value youth

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Other Adult Relationships

• Young person receives support from three or more
  non-parent adults

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Safety

• Young person feels safe at home, school and in
  the community

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Peaceful Conflict Resolution

• Young person seeks to resolve conflicts
  non-violently

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Reading for Pleasure

• Young person reads for pleasure three or more
  hours per week

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Service to Others

• Young people are given useful roles in the
  community and serve in the community for one hour
  or more per week

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Creative Activities

• Young person spends three or more hours per week
  in lessons or practice in music, theater, or
  other arts

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Ways to Become Involved

• Start at home

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Asset-Building Ideas for Parents/Guardians

• Post the 40 developmental assets on your
  refrigerator. Each day focus on an asset
• Do things with your child on a regular
  basisinclude chores, fun activities and service
  projects
• Eat at least one meal together as a family each
  day
• Negotiate family rules and consequence for
  breaking those rules
• Talk about your values and priorities
• Live in a way that is consistent with your values
  and priorities
• Give your children lots of support and approval
• Challenge your children to take responsibility
  and gain independence.

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Asset-Building Ideas for Parents/Guardians

• Nurture your own assets by spending time with
  people who care about you and are supportive of
  the things you do
• Be or dont be like your parents analyze the
  way you were treated and treat your children
  accordingly
• Find interesting and meaningful things to do as a
  family besides watching television
• Learn as much as you can about your children at
  their current ages

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Asset-Building Ideas for Parents/Guardians

• Understand and act on the fact that your children
  need more than financial support they also need
  emotional and intellectual support
• Talk to children before problems arise. Keep in
  regular contact with teachers. Find out how you
  can help your child each step of the way
• Think of kids as adults in training. Teach them
  something practical. Help them expand their
  interests.
• Do intergenerational activities
• Be an asset builder for other children in your
  life
• Listen to your child. Listen to them when they
  talk about their thoughts, feelings, dreams and
  fears.
• Be there

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Againit is simple

• Have a regular family night to do something fun
  together
• Model coping skills when difficult situations
  arise
• Write down what you believe post it where you'll
  see it often
• Believe that youth and adults want to learn
• Set boundaries and explain the values behind them
  
• Encourage passion and interests in others
• Borrow eggs from a neighbor
• Learn about your own cultural heritage and share
  it
• Vow to say one encouraging thing to someone each
  day
• Listen when young people talk about their sense
  of purpose in life
• Teach young people how to be safe where ever they
  go
• Be the role model that you want your kids and
  your co-workers to be
• Reflect on one good thing that happened each day
  and share it with others

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Ready for the Standards?

• Its not like we have a choice!

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Read, ReadRead and Read Some More

• Did you know that most newspaper articles
• are written on a 4th or 5th grade reading level!
• What a great way to read the paper with your
  child!

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Math Success Made Easy

• Know the Facts!

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Kindergarten-Third Parent/Student Activities
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Number Sense3rd Grade Count, read and write
whole numbers to 10,000. Compare and order whole
numbers to 10,000. Identify the place value for
each digit in numbers to 10,0002nd Grade The
standards are the same, but perform skill up to
the 1000s1st Grade The standards are the same,
but perform skill up to the 100s

• Grocery Shopping
• The grocery store will appear several times
  throughout the math content standards as it is an
  excellent classroom for grade school students.
  For students learning to count and read numbers
  have students count packs of their favorite
  juice, boxes of their favorite cereal or cartons
  of milk in a given row.
• Have students round prices to the nearest dollar.
• Have students estimate the total.
• Have students tally prices as you go.

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Reading 1.0 Word Analysis, Fluency, and
Systematic Vocabulary Development1st, 2nd and
3rd Grade Students understand the basic
features of reading. They select letter patterns
and know how to translate them into spoken
language by using phonics, syllabication, and
word parts. They apply this knowledge to achieve
fluent oral and silent reading

• Word Family Game
• A word family is a group of words that all have
  the same ending fall, ball, call, mall all
  belong to the all family. Word families lead
  to great games.
• When you and your child are driving play the
  Word Family Game. Choose an ending like all
  or op and take turns naming words that end with
  your selected soundmopstopchophopwhoever is
  the last to say a word is queen or king of the
  ops.

• Dinner Rhymes
• Set the timer for the first six minutes of
  dinner and make a rule that no one can speak
  unless he talks in rhymes. After the timer
  ringstry to see who can name all of the word
  families that were spoken.

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First Grade Social Studies1. 6 Students
understand basic economic concepts and the role
of individual choice in a free-market economy.
Understand the concept of exchange and the use of
money to purchase goods and services. Identify
the specialized work that people do to
manufacture, transport, and market goods and
services and the contributions of those who work
at home.

• Household Expenses
• Talk about how much consumer goods cost. When
  you are in a restaurant discuss the prices on
  the menu and ask questions like how much do you
  think this would cost to make a home?

• Banking
• Set up a bank account with your child. Have her
  deposit part of birthday money and allowance and
  watch it grow. Save for a big item when she
  reaches her goal ask her if she wants to part
  with her money to purchase what she wants.

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Grade 4 -- Word Recognition1.1 Read narrative
and expository text aloud with grade-appropriate
fluency and accuracy and with appropriate pacing,
intonation, and expression. Vocabulary and
Concept Development1.2 Apply knowledge of word
origins, derivations, synonyms, antonyms, and
idioms to determine the meaning of words and
phrases.1.3 Use knowledge of root words to
determine the meaning of unknown words within a
passage.

• MAGAZINES
• Choose a topic or hobby of your childs and
  subscribe to a magazine or go to the library and
  look through her favorites. Read through them
  together or have her read through them alone.
  Have her circle any words she doesnt know and
  try to figure them out by the type of article she
  is reading basically, by the context clues.
  When youre driving, have her circle root words
  and try to figure out the meaning of the attached
  prefixes and/or suffixes.

• STICKY NOTES
• Choose a prefix, suffix or root word and look up
  other words that contain the same part. Write
  these words on sticky notes and place them all
  around the house. At the end of the week test
  her on them for the number she gets correct
  reward her with something small like a minute
  off of chores for each correct answer.

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