Conversation Starters

Feel free to ask your child the following:


  • Tell me about the visit from Matt Tavares. What did you learn? What was the most interesting thing he shared?
  • What topic are you researching for your civil rights essay?
  • Can you draw 2/3 using a fraction circle and place it on a number line?
  • What is 5/6 + 3/6? Can you write the answer as an improper fraction and mixed number?
  • What would be the area of a 3 in. by 8 in. rectangle? What would be the perimeter?
  • What could the dimensions and perimeter be of a rectangle with the area of 24 square feet?
  • What is energy?
  • Can you name three different forms of energy?
  • What have you learned about sound and light energy?
  • Can you name three states that are in the midwest? 
  • What book are you reading in school now?