Helpful Links
- Visit the Eugene Field Elementary website for school events, news updates, and much more.
- Visit the Springfield Public Schools website for district news, school closings, and district policies.
- Visit the new My Math curriculum and resources, including games and virtual manipulatives. By clicking on that link, you will be directed to SPS's new Canvas system. Your child's username is his/her SPS ID #, and the password is the word "student". Once logged in, click on "Virtual Library" and then "Online Locker". Select and click on your child's grade-level book to access the e-Book and Resources. Also note that you may click on the "Field Elementary Computer Lab" link to access Brainpop and ALEKS, the new SPS individualized online math practice resource.
- Brainpop has animated educational videos on hundreds of topics. If you don't access it through Canvas, the username is springfieldr12 and the password is brainpop.
- Visit the Springfield-Greene County Library District for programs and events! Check out this Springfield-Greene County Library site of links for parents and teachers.
- Learn more about this year's books on the Mark Twain Nominee list.
- Check out www.guysread.com, a web-based literacy program for boys. Their mission is "to help boys become self-motivated, lifelong readers." Lots of book recommendations for boys here, too!
- Visit www.lexile.com to match readers with text or search for the Lexile level of a particular book.
- Scholastic also has recommended book lists and tips for parents on children's reading, learning, school success, family life, and activities. (If you need to order books, click on the Scholastic Book Clubs link under "Parents" above.)
Activities to Encourage Writing at Home:
- Turn your home into a print-rich environment by allowing your child easy access to magazines, books, maps, manuals, e-mail, cookbooks, menus, television guides, newspapers, directions, and other reading materials.
- Encourage your child to help write grocery lists, to-do lists, notes, directions, material lists, and accurate phone messages.
- Have your child start a writer's notebook to record observations, quotes, favorite words, words that need definitions, and interesting ideas to write about.
- Encourage your child to keep a daily journal to record thoughts, feelings, and happenings. The journal doesn't have to be fancy. A simple notebook works as well as a commercially produced journal.
- Provide interesting writing materials, such as gel pens, felt-tip pens, calligraphy pens, colored pencils, sticky notes, small note pads, fancy stationery, homemade papers, and colored papers.
- Encourage written personal correspondence (thank you notes, friendly letters, invitations) as well as business correspondence (requests, inquiries, complaints) in both hand-written and word-processed formats.
- Create a scrapbook of a vacation, a family outing, a school trip, or a school year. Have your child write an introduction, headings, picture captions, and titles.
- Help your child find an e-mail buddy or form a writing alliance with a relative or friend. Be sure to provide different media for communication, such as stationery, postcards, greeting cards, and colorful papers.
- Help your child to create word games, such as completing an analogy, writing a tongue twister, or making up rhymes and riddles. Play commercial word games such as Scrabble, Boggle, and crossword puzzles.
--Scholastic Teaching Resources