Questions to Facilitate Parent/Student
Conversations about School
The following questions may be helpful for you to ask your school-smart kindergartner. Try to choose a few that will work best for you and your child.
Theme related questions:
What theme is your class working on?
What do you already know about the theme?
What do you hope to learn about the theme?
What did you learn today about your theme?
What book did you read today with your theme?
What fun songs did you sing today with your theme?
What activities did you do today with your theme?
What materials did you use?
How did you work with your friends during this time?
How would you like to learn more about your theme at home?
Reading related questions:
What book did you read today?
What is the story about?
Do you like this story? Why?
Were you surprised by the ending?
How does the story remind you of something that has happened to you?
How does the story remind you of other books we have read?
What did you write about today?
Do you think you will add more to your story tomorrow?
What is your favorite thing to write about?
How did you help someone with their story today?
How did you use the word wall when you were writing?
What are some words you already know how to write?
How do you remember to leave spaces between your words?
What words are you able to stretch out to hear sounds when writing your stories?
Did you use writers’ talk to help friends with their writing?
How are you growing as a writer?
AND… let’s write together and have fun with words and letters!!
Math related questions:
What are some things you counted today?
How did you use numbers during morning meeting?
What math activities are you doing?
What kinds of materials did you use in math today?
Who did you play the math game with today?
How did you work with your friends?
How did you play the math game today?
How can we play this game at home?
How high did you count in school today?
What patterns are you finding in your classroom?
What are some patterns we have in our house?
What shapes are you finding in your classroom?
What are some shapes we have in our house?
What are ways you measured things in your classroom?
How could we measure things at our house?
What are you learning about numbers?
AND… let’s play together and have fun with numbers and counting!!
Center related questions:
What centers did you work in today?
Who did you work with in your center?
How did you work in the center?
How did you show a kind heart at centers today?
Will you try to go to the same center tomorrow?