Practicing concepts at home is very important. Here are some great concepts to practice:

• Add and subtract within 20.
• Work with money by identifying and counting coins.
• Make up simple addition or subtraction math stories for your child to solve. For example, "Sam had 3 cookies and his mom gave him 2 more. How many does he have now?" Adjust the numbers to your child's needs.
• Practice identifying numbers.
• Count to 120 starting with any number.
• (Based on the Common Core Standards)

Some family games that use math skills

• Dice, cards, and board games can help your child learn addition combinations.
• Dominoes help students practice recognizing groups of dots as numbers (subitizing).
• The card game “War” helps kids recognize which number is greater and which is less.
• Yahtzee
• Mancala
• Uno helps with number identification
• (Many of these suggestions came from: http://www.dreambox.com/parent-tips-first-grade.)