Homework this week is due on Friday, February 3:

1- Math Homework:  Please check your child’s answers for accuracy!

• Worksheets: Please complete every other problem (alternate between evens and odds so your child gets practice doing story problems AND “Vocabulary Check”/ “Test Practice” problems each week).  If your child wants to do every problem they are certainly free to do so! 🙂 
• Practice your fluency timing repeatedly: “Double’s Strategy” Adding Double Facts Record your best time and score each day. [By the end of first grade, the target goal is to finish all 25 problems in 1 minute and 15 seconds, with 90% accuracy (23 out of 25 problems correct).]  Click here for extra timings: Fluency Timings
• For extra practice, utilize any of these math-fact-activities. These facts will help them find the related subtraction facts when “Subtracting From 10″.  Help them see the connection.  If I know 4 + 6 = 10, then 10 – 6 = 4 and 10 – 4 = 6. 

Doubles is the next strategy that I recommend teaching, as it usually comes quite easily to students. Doubles are all around us; think of fingers and toes – 5+5, wheels on a car – 2+2, or the eggs in a carton – 6+6. When students know their doubles well, they should no longer have to think about the equation to solve it. Rather, the answer becomes automatic. This means that the student has developed automaticity. For example, when a student sees the equation 8+8, he should know that it equals 16 without even stopping to think. Building a strong foundation of doubles will help students with the next strategy, Doubles Plus One.

**NEW LANGUAGE ARTS HOMEWORK**  (Please read carefully.)

1- Daily Reading Fluency (available in the Blue Homework folders on Mondays). Our new daily reading fluency is leveled to meet the needs of the individual students. Parent instructions are provided. Please let us know if you have questions about this new task. 

2- Reading 20 minutes per day. Click here to record your weekly reading minutes:  Library Reading Minutes Log. (You no longer need to send in a paper record, simply complete the online reading log.)

3- Phonics and High Frequency Words Homework. Practice using any method of your choice to prepare for the weekly Friday spelling test. Click here for some practice ideas: Spelling Study Activities

Phonics Words:
loss
will
boss
all
hilltop

High Frequency Words:
do
these
been
who
said

Sentence:
Jill is upset.