• Worksheets: Please look in your child’s green folder on Tuesday for worksheets with concepts that have been taught in class.  The purpose of this homework is for a quick review, some practice, and a chance for parents to see what their child is learning in math.  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!  Please help your child read the directions/example problems and allow them to talk about the problems as they figure out the answers. 

• Math Fluency Timings: Click on the link to see where your child is at on math timings.Then print the page of timing they are working on. Addition and Subtraction Fluency Timings. Print the page they are working on and put it in a sheet protector in your child’s green folder. Time them for 1 minute and 15 seconds twice. Have them use an expo to write their answers that way you can reuse sheets. During class if they pass it off they will move up to the next timing. Once they complete all these timings they will receive more difficult mixed timings to complete. 

**LANGUAGE ARTS HOMEWORK** 

1- Daily Reading Fluency (available in the Green Homework folders). Please complete both sides of the Leveled Daily Reading Fluency assignment. 
A Reading for All Learners (Baggy Book) leveled book will be sent home with your child DAILY. Please have your child read the book (or one story from the books that contain more than one story) at least two-three times and then sign the included form. You may supplement your child’s reading using books at home, library books, etc. to fulfill the minimum requirement of 20-30 minutes of reading per day. These are meant to be easier than your students level to work on their sight word and fluency. We are working on re-leveling their baggy books to go home this week.  

2- Reading 20 minutes per day.  Track your daily reading minutes on the homework tracker sheet.  Make reading every single day a priority.  Ask your students questions using the retell rope visual below.  It’s also a good idea to time your child every single day for one minute on the same story every week in preparation for the benchmark Dibels testings throughout the year.  

3-New Activity. It is so very important to practice timed readings with our students.  We have added this additional component to the reading homework. 
This activity should be completed Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.  It is not necessary to fill out a Homework Form for this week’s homework – I trust that you will do it. These extra phonics fluency stories are for extra practice.  Please record the words per minute from the timings off of your students reading homework story sent home in their green homework folders.  

1. Visit the following file for extra timed practice by clicking on the picture to print the Monsters Story.  You can also click on the Game picture to practice characters, setting, and events.  For the game- each picture the student lands on they continue making up their own story; they start their story with “Once upon a time…” if they land on a picture of a character they name the character in the story and then continue the story.  Students will just make up and tell you their story as they go along, it doesn’t need to be written down or turned in.  
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3. Please record the fluency time of words per minute on the homework tracker from their reading homework stories sent home in their green homework folders.  
4.  Complete a one-minute timed reading and record your score on the Homework Form. Feel free to use this online timer: http://www.online-stopwatch.com/timer/1minute/ . Find your score by subtracting the number of incorrect words read from the total number of words read in one minute (for instance, if you read 98 words, but read 5 of the words incorrectly, your score would be 93).   
5. Re-tell the story with as much detail as possible, and in your own words, to a parent, using the guidelines described below:

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

Phonics Spelling List:
leg
beg
men
hen
head
bread
again
help
there
use

High Frequency Words: 
chin
graph
new

**Wonders provides additional activities to support your child’s learning. Please visit “School to Home” on your child’s Wonder page for our weekly Family Member letter. **

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