Why is reading fluency so important?

Parents, 

We cannot stress enough the importance of reading fluency and it’s importance to your child’s continued growth.  

Please read the attached documentation below on fluency practice daily.  We have also started our timed readings with our 4th grade reading buddies as well as pull out timings with partner timings. 

what is fluency parent tips

Thanks so much for all of your work at home with fluency doing the reading homework pages.  We have also started our October Pizza Hut Book It Reading Program this month.  Make sure you are recording your students reading minutes on the Homework Tracker so that they can earn their free personal pan pizza at the end of the month! :o)  

Moon Journals

Hey parents I have received quite a few moon journals but I have 4 no names! If your child turned it in and their name is not listed below shoot me an email so I can give them credit. Also if they haven’t turned one in I will accept them through this Friday. 

Here is who HAS turned it in: 
Valery
Peyton
Courtney
Ashton
Cambree
Jeremiah
Reed
Olivia
Ellie
Izzie
Titan
Alyssa
Brigham
Deacon
Steven
Corbin

Homework Week October 2nd-6th

Homework this week is due on FRIDAY, October 6th:

PRINT THIS Homework Tracker 

1- Math Homework:  
  • 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. 

2- IXL- This week please have your child go on and complete the following on IXL as review. They have gotten on at school. Simply go to ixl.com.
Their usernames are: firstnamelastname7 password: rams

(Ellie’s is johnsonellie7)

 Complete:  H.5
                     H.6

**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. These baggy books will be sent home beginning tomorrow.  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 Screen Shot 2017-10-03 at 1.01.13 PM
  2. 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.  
  3.  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).   
  4. Re-tell the story with as much detail as possible, and in your own words, to a parent, using the guidelines described below:

Non-Fiction Re-tell Rope 3Fiction Re-Tell Rope 3














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:

spill
spin
grab
grass
drop
drip
hop
lot

High Frequency Words:
 

move
jump
run
two

**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. **

Click here to access our class account: Wonders

Homework for Week 9/25-9/29

Homework this week is due on FRIDAY, September 29th:
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PRINT THIS Homework Tracker 



1- Math Homework:  
  • 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. 

2- IXL- This week please have your child go on and complete the following on IXL as review. They have gotten on at school. Simply go to ixl.com.
Their usernames are: firstnamelastname7 password: rams

(Ellie’s is johnsonellie7)
 Complete:  A.9
                    A.11
                    A.15

3- Moon Journal. Continue observing the moon and recording moon phases.
Moon Journal is due this Friday September 29th!



**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. These baggy books will be sent home beginning tomorrow.  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. 

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: Phonics-Fluency-Stories-1
  2. For this week, please read Lesson #4 for this week from the fluency stories listed above for extra practice.  You don’t need to turn these stories in, just the reading homework page sent home in your child’s green homework folder each week.  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.  
  3.  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).   
  4. Re-tell the story with as much detail as possible, and in your own words, to a parent, using the guidelines described below:

Non-Fiction Re-tell Rope 3Fiction Re-Tell Rope 3














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:

top
hop
log
hog
hot
lot
flip
black

High Frequency Words:
 

they
too
fun
make

**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. **

Click here to access our class account: Wonders

STEM Lab Volunteers Needed


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We NEED your help!  Volunteers are needed and a great way to see technology first hand and get those volunteer hours in.

Beginning this Thursday, September 21st, our class will begin logging into the computers in the STEM Computer Lab with Mrs. Jones where many of our technology learning standards are taught.  

Our class goes there every Thursday from 9:30-10:30am.  Parent help is very much appreciated, especially with these little ones who are just learning how to log into the computers and often need lots of help.  


If you are available on Thursdays for the STEM lab please email me: 
anelson@questac.org