• Worksheets: Please look in your child’s green folder on Monday 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. 

• HARDER TIMINGS: If your child has passed off all the other timings here are some new timings I made. They should not have to regroup and should be able to either count on, count back, or know it by heart. Print off Harder Math Timings 10-20.  Here is the tracker to know where your child is at Timings 10-20. Time them still for 1 minute 15 seconds. Please let me know if you need help with anything.  

We continue working on the -o, -oa, ow, -oe word families this week. We are working on organization, open syllables, and capitalizing proper nouns.  Poetry and Nonfiction will be our focus this week.  Asking and answering questions remains our comprehension strategy. 

You can review the picture below for the week at a glance.

1- Daily Reading Fluency 
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. 

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. 

3-January Fluency Passage Homework.  Due to reading level benchmark testings for mid-year, students will not have their individual leveled reading homework fluency passages until leveling is completed by our grade level paraprofessional.  
Please have your student complete their daily reading timing and activities associated on the back with it.  They should complete 2 questions on the back each day. 

It is also extremely helpful to have our student re-tell the story to you. Please also have them do this and you may use the visual aid below to assist with the steps to prompt your student if necessary. 

Re-tell the story with as much detail as possible, and in your own words, to a parent, using the guidelines described below:

4- 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.

**If your child is absent please have them complete a Waterford session and do a few activities on Wonders. The activities on Wonders are connected to our daily lessons. Thank you.  

Click here to access Waterford: Waterford
Click here to access Wonders: Wonders

• 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 problem this week only.  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. 

• HARDER TIMINGS: If your child has passed off all the other timings here are some new timings I made. They should not have to regroup and should be able to either count on or know it by heart. Print off Harder Math Timings 10-20.  Here is the tracker to know where your child is at Timings 10-20. Time them still for 1 minute 15 seconds. Please let me know if you need help with anything.  

We are working on the -ook, and -ood word families. We continue working on connections within a text: sequencing, apostrophe’s with not, and -ed & -ing inflected endings. We are also learning about the nonfiction genre studying Animals from Antartica and the Arctic. 

Please have students return their Polar Bear and Penguin research paper in on Friday morning so that they can present in class. 

You can review the picture below for the week at a glance.

1- Daily Reading Fluency 
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. 

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. 

3-January Week 1 Fluency Passage Homework.  Due to reading level benchmark testings for mid-year, students will not have their individual leveled reading homework fluency passages until leveling is completed by our grade level paraprofessional.  
Please have your student complete their daily reading timing and activities associated on the back with it.  They should complete 2 questions on the back each day. 

It is also extremely helpful to have our student re-tell the story to you. Please also have them do this and you may use the visual aid below to assist with the steps to prompt your student if necessary. 

Re-tell the story with as much detail as possible, and in your own words, to a parent, using the guidelines described below:

4- 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:
book
look
cook
took
hood
wood

Review high frequency words:
nose
cute
buy
done

**If your child is absent please have them complete a Waterford session and do a few activities on Wonders. The activities on Wonders are connected to our daily lessons. Thank you.  

Click here to access Waterford: Waterford
Click here to access Wonders: Wonders

We have been studying Polar Bears and Penguins in the classroom for our winter animal unit.  Please have your student investigate and write a short one page report on Polar Bears and Penguins using the report paper sent home.  In the box they will illustrate their picture of the animals.  Here are a few helpful items to help with some interesting facts about the two and a spare copy of the report paper if you need to print an additional one.

Here is the file link below.  The final report pages if you need to print an additional copy are page 6 & 7 of the file attachment below: 
Winter_Research_Freebie


Here are some safe search engines for this project as well: 
Kid Rex 
Kiddle
Kid’s Search

QR Code with interesting videos and facts about Polar Bears and Penguins below: 
Graphic Organizer the kids can use to draft their report below on Penguins: 
Graphic organizer below the kids can use to draft their report on Polar Bears: Polar Bear Final Report Page below if additional copy is needed to print: 
Penguin Final Report Page below if additional copy is needed to print: 


We are working on the -o_e, u_e long vowel CVCe word families.   This week we are woking on nonfiction as our genre. We are working on compare and contrast, and the use of the words is and are within grammar guidelines.  We are also working on using commas in our written dates.

You can review the picture below for the week at a glance.

1- Daily Reading Fluency 
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. 

2- Reading 20+ minutes per day.  There is no need to use the reading tracker this week.  Make reading every single day a priority.  Ask your students questions about the stories they are reading to help them with comprehension. 

• 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. 

• HARDER TIMINGS: I wasn’t loving what I had started so I am changing things again. If your child has passed off all the other timings here are some new timings I made. They should not have to regroup and should be able to either count on or know it by heart. Print off Harder Math Timings 10-20.  Here is the tracker to know where your child is at Timings 10-20. Time them still for 1 minute 15 seconds. Please let me know if you need help with anything.  

We are working on the -ike, and -ide word families that are associated with Long I as in “i____e” . Continuing to review apostrophe’s, plurals, making and confirming predictions this week.   We are also learning about present-tense verbs and play genre’s.  

You can review the picture below for the week at a glance.

1- Daily Reading Fluency 
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. 

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. 

Dear Parents, I apologize with the link for EPIC, after further review and speaking with their education specialist, sadly, this program was only offered as an in class program.  I am always on the look out for fun and new programs for the kids to explore while they learn.  Please have your students read their library books and baggy books.  There is no timing sheet this week. 

3-There is no daily reading homework and reading timing sheet this week.  
Please have your student read their baggy books as well as any other books of their choosing and have them use the re-tell rope visual below to have them tell you about the book they read.  Please initial on the reading timings section of the homework tracker the days that they complete this task.  

Re-tell the story with as much detail as possible, and in your own words, to a parent, using the guidelines described below:

4- 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:
like
spike
ride
hide
bike
mine
make
came
water
should

Review high frequency words:
green
grow
pretty
together

**If your child is absent please have them complete a Waterford session and do a few activities on Wonders. The activities on Wonders are connected to our daily lessons. Thank you.  

Click here to access Waterford: Waterford
Click here to access Wonders: Wonders

• Worksheets: This week for homework is review. There are only a couple of addition worksheets to have your child do in their green folder. Have them practice any strategy they have learned in the previous chapter. We are starting a new chapter so next week we will be back at regular math packets. 

• HARDER TIMINGS: I wasn’t loving what I had started so I am changing things again. If your child has passed off all the other timings here are some new timings I made. They should not have to regroup and should be able to either count on or know it by heart. Print off Harder Math Timings 10-20.  Here is the tracker to know where your child is at Timings 10-20. Time them still for 1 minute 15 seconds. Please let me know if you need help with anything.  

We are working on the -ake, -ate, -ame word families that are associated with Long A as in “a____e”   and apostrophe’s this week.  Contractions review is something we continue working on this week as well.   
You can review the picture below for the week at a glance.

1- Daily Reading Fluency 
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. 

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. 

I have added each of the students into the online reading program EPIC.  They can read any book from this site as well.  I
Students will click on the picture above their name.  It will ask you to click your child’s age after entering our class code and then they can mark their favorite types of books and hit next.  They can click on any book they want and it will play for them.  This also counts as their reading minutes.  Have fun and explore! We recommend clicking on a book in the “Featured Collections” section and just tapping on the page to turn it when you are done reading to start out and try out this new system. 

EPIC LINK
Our Class Code is:   RBE-3078

3-There is no daily reading homework and reading timing sheet this week.  
Please have your student read their baggy books as well as any other books of their choosing and have them use the re-tell rope visual below to have them tell you about the book they read.  Please initial on the reading timings section of the homework tracker the days that they complete this task.  

Re-tell the story with as much detail as possible, and in your own words, to a parent, using the guidelines described below:

4- 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:
make
take
came
game
gate
late
chin
graph
some
today

Review high frequency words:
away
now
way
why

**If your child is absent please have them complete a Waterford session and do a few activities on Wonders. The activities on Wonders are connected to our daily lessons. Thank you.  

Click here to access Waterford: Waterford
Click here to access Wonders: Wonders