Homework this week is due on Friday, February 10:

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: “Near Doubles”.  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. There is also a copy provided in your blue folder.

Helpful Hints:  This strategy is a natural progression from the doubles. It includes using a known fact and building on it. For example, in the equation 5+6, a student could think, “I know that 5+5 makes 10, and one more makes 11.” This strategy will likely require a bit more teaching than the previous two, but it will be well worth it; when students know their doubles and doubles plus one facts, they know 25% of the addition table!!

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

1- Daily Reading Fluency (available in the Blue Homework folders on Mondays). Please complete both sides of the Leveled Daily Reading Fluency assignment. 

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:
math
fish
pack
rock
cash

High Frequency Words:
water 
could
how

Sentence:
Jack gets a fish by the rock. 

Homework this week is due on Friday, November 11:
**A disguise your turkey homework page was sent home with your child and is due this Friday, November 11th with the weekly homework, we will be working on a writing assignment using this project next week**

1- Math Homework:  

• 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! 🙂 Please check your child’s answers for accuracy!

• Practice your fluency timing repeatedly: “Subtracting from 0,1,2,3, and 4”.  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. There is also a copy provided in your blue folder.

Helpful Hint:  Use counters (pennies, buttons, macaroni, etc.) if needed to model subtraction. Count backwards when subtracting 1, 2, or 3: Start with the bigger number and count backwards (Example: 3 – 2.  Snap your finger and say “3″ and count backwards 2 times: say 3 (snap)…2…1).

 PRINT THIS HOMEWORK FORM to complete the following tasks: 
1- weekly-homework-form

TO RECEIVE CREDIT PLEASE WRITE STUDENT’S NAME ON HOMEWORK AND STAPLE THE SORT WORK SEPARATELY FROM THE MATH HOMEWORK.  

2- Reading 20 minutes per day.

3- One Minute Reading Fluency. After reading with our students I have moved them up in the fluency stories according to their ability.  Most of our students did well working on this story today with their reading buddies in 4th grade.  So, please print Lesson #18 for this week.  Click on the Phonics Fluency Stories  to print Lesson #18 from this link: Phonics Fluency Stories. 

4- Weekly Sort: 1-18-sheet1 (Please PRINT this assigned sort.)  

5- 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:
us
run
fan
pin
muffin

High Frequency Words:
they
very
from
water
and

Sentence:
The sun is up.

1- Math Homework:  

• 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! 🙂 Please check your child’s answers for accuracy!

• Practice your fluency timing repeatedly: “Addition Mixed” and introduce “Subtracting from 0,1,2,3, and 4” when they are ready to move on.  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. There is also a copy provided in your blue folder.

Helpful Hint:  Alternate practicing the front and back of the timing sheet for different addition problems.  Use all the strategies we’ve learned so far.

 PRINT THIS HOMEWORK FORM to complete the following 4 tasks: 
weekly-homework-form

TO RECEIVE CREDIT PLEASE WRITE STUDENT’S NAME ON HOMEWORK AND STAPLE THE SORT WORK SEPARATELY FROM THE MATH HOMEWORK.  

2- Reading 20 minutes per day.

3- One Minute Reading Fluency. Lesson #7 from this link: Phonics Fluency Stories. 

4- Weekly Sort: Lesson 7 Sort (Please PRINT this assigned sort.)  

5- 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:
cot
jog
pat
jig
comma

High Frequency Words:
people
put
little
on
my

Sentence:
Pam got a big pot.

Homework this week is due on Friday, October 28:

1- Math Homework:  

• 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! 🙂 Please check your child’s answers for accuracy!

• Practice your fluency timing repeatedly: “Addition Mixed”.  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. There is also a copy provided in your blue folder.

Helpful Hint:  Alternate practicing the front and back of the timing sheet for different addition problems.  Use all the strategies we’ve learned so far.

 PRINT THIS HOMEWORK FORM to complete the following 4 tasks: 
weekly-homework-form

TO RECEIVE CREDIT PLEASE WRITE STUDENT’S NAME ON HOMEWORK AND STAPLE THE SORT WORK SEPARATELY FROM THE MATH HOMEWORK.  

2-Reading 20 minutes per day, record reading minutes on our Weekly Homework form. There are several sources for reading: books from home, the public library, reading fluency assignment below, and our online reading program:  Raz-Kids.  Our class login is: anelson74 Password (if requested): rams

3- One Minute Reading Fluency. Lesson #6 from this link: Phonics Fluency Stories. This daily one-minute timed fluency reading will help your student become a fluent reader.  It will also count as reading minutes.  Time your student for one minute. Record the number of words they were able to read CORRECTLY in one minute.

4- 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
**Our Spelling Test will be held on THURSDAY this week due to the Halloween parade and party on Friday**

Phonics Words:
dot
job
top
him
catnap

High Frequency Words:
some 
of
go
after
she

Sentence:
The pot was hot.

5- Weekly Sort: Lesson 6 Sort (Please PRINT this assigned sort.)

Homework this week is due on Friday, October 14:

1- Math Homework:  

• 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! 🙂 Please check your child’s answers for accuracy!

• With the fluency timing in the plastic sheet protector (“Adding Seven’s”), use a dry-erase marker to practice repeatedly.  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).]  If your child frustrates too easily because it takes too long to complete, have them practice for 2-5 minutes (you can be the judge) and write down how many they finished in that time.  Encourage your child to keep improving on their own score.  Click here for extra timings: Fluency Timings

• For extra practice, utilize any of these math-fact-activities. There is also a copy provided in your blue folder.

Helpful Hint:  Here’s how we’re learning to add Six’s and Seven’s
6 + 4 = 10 Memorize this fact (Students need to know all the facts that “Make a Ten”)
All the other six and seven facts use the strategy of “counting on”. 

PRINT THIS HOMEWORK FORM to complete the following 4 tasks:
weekly-homework-form
TO RECEIVE CREDIT PLEASE WRITE STUDENT’S NAME ON HOMEWORK

2-Reading 20 minutes per day, record reading minutes on our Weekly Homework form. There are several sources for reading: books from home, the public library, reading fluency assignment below, and our online reading program:  Raz-Kids.  Our class login is: anelson74 Password (if requested): rams

3- One Minute Reading Fluency. Lesson #5 from this link: Phonics Fluency Stories. This daily one-minute timed fluency reading will help your student become a fluent reader.  It will also count as reading minutes.  Time your student for one minute. Record the number of words they were able to read CORRECTLY in one minute.

4- 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:
nod
fox
rib
map
cannot

High Frequency Words:
not
of
from
my
have

Sentence:
Bob has a mop.

5- Weekly Sort: Lesson 5 sort (Please PRINT this assigned sort.)