December 1 – December 5th

**  Library day is Monday, December 1st for this week only –please send your child’s library books with them so that they can check out a new book ** 

In our class you are responsible to print the homework organizer, the weekly sort and the math sheets on Monday’s.  Please staple together and return on Friday mornings.  (If you would rather record the math homework answers on the back of one of the organizer sheets I will accept that also)  

Weekly Homework Organizer(please print)

High Frequency Words/Sight Words for this week are listed below (due to the holiday time off I have added extra words for the next few weeks):  
said
out 
if
some
would
so 
people
Review words from last week:   
what 
about
play
High Frequency Words Fluency Practice.  This daily one-minute timed fluency reading will help your student become a fluent reader.  It will also count for reading minutes. Click here:  HFW Week 10 Timing

We are continuing our differentiating word study program, Words their Way! 

Click on the shape of your child’s group.  On the outside of your child’s blue homework folder I have put the shape he or she is in for your convenience right next to their name. (please look at that so that you know what sort to do each day).  Also, make sure you are asking for your child to look at their homework folder each night.  Several children have been placing them back in their desks instead of taking them home each night.  

WORD SORTS     (please print your child’s word sort for the week)
Stars
Triangles
Diamonds
Circles
Hearts

Use the Word Sort for the following activities.
  • Monday: Print, cut, and sort your words with an adult and explain this week’s rule. Sort each word under the correct guide word. Some guide words have a C or V combination on them – C stands for consonant and V stands for vowel.  
  • Tuesday: Speed Sort.  Time your child three different times sorting their words and record each of the times in the lines provided above the grid.  (Then have your child write their sort (using the grid on page 2 of the Homework Form). High frequency words written three times on the bottom in the lines provided.
  • Wednesday: Blind Sort (Lay down the guide words and then read the rest of the words aloud without showing them to your child. Your child must indicate where the word goes without seeing it.)  Rainbow write the high frequency words for the week on the lines provided.  
  • Thursday: Sort and glue (sort the words and glue them to the back of the Homework Form).
Math Homework:  (Please check your child’s work and have them fix any mistakes before turning in.  Thank you!)

Ch. 3 Lesson 7

Please print and cut out the flashcards for “Adding Doubles” and “Adding Near Doubles”:  (or use your own flashcards)

Adding Doubles

Adding Near Doubles

We have been working on memorizing our “Doubles”.  Knowing doubles automatically makes “Near Double” facts easy and fast to figure out.  Quiz your child on these facts and practice as needed to increase their speed.  Many of them enjoy seeing if they can beat their time.  If they are counting to figure out the answers to their doubles, they aren’t memorized.  (Ask them to tell you what we picture in our minds for each double fact).  Please indicate that your child has worked on this by signing your name on the worksheet above.  Thank you!

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