• 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.)

• 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

• 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 (Introducing “Adding Five’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 Four’s and Five’s

4 + 0 = 4  When you add zero to any number, the sum is that same number
4 + 1 = 5  Start on 4 and count on 1 more
4 + 2 = 6  Count on 2 more
4 + 3 = 7  Count on 3 more
4 + 4 = 8  Make a mental picture & memorize this doubles fact (Picture a spider with 4 legs on each side and 8 legs total)
4 + 5 = 9  If you know 4 + 4 = 8, you know 4 + 5 is one more, so it equals 9 (We call this a near doubles fact)
4 + 6 = 10  We memorize this fact (Eventually, we memorize all the facts that “Make a Ten”)

5 + 4 = 9  (Use 4 + 5 = 9 above)  -OR-  If you know 5 + 5 = 10, you know 5 + 4 is one less, so it equals 9 (We call this a near doubles fact)
5 + 5 = 10  Make a mental picture & memorize this doubles fact (Picture 5 fingers on each hand for a total of 10 fingers)

PRINT THIS HOMEWORK FORM to complete the following 4 tasks: weekly-homework-form  (The Homework form has been changed slightly so make sure this is the one you are using) 
Below is an example of how the returned homework should look: 
 

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

• Please look in your child’s blue homework folder on Tuesday for this week’s fluency timing (“Adding Two’s“) in a plastic sheet protector.  Have your child practice these facts repeatedly using a dry-erase marker.  Time how long it takes to finish and record their best time and score each day on the “Math Homework” form (included in the blue folder also) and return on Friday.  By the end of 1st grade, the target goal is to finish the timings in 1 minute and 15 seconds, with 90% accuracy (23 out of 25 problems correct). Encourage your child to keep improving on their own score, rather than expecting them to reach the target goal yet.  We have a whole year to reach it through consistent practice!

• This upcoming week for homework we will only have reading homework. Please print out the reading tracker below and read with your child 20 minutes every night! Homework will be due every Friday. So please record any reading done the weekend before homework is due. 
• For example this weeks homework will be due on Friday September 2nd. So if we were tracking my reading we would put this weekends reading the August 27-28th on that reading log. Please have your child’s reading log in their blue folder and we will collect them. 
• We will hopefully have either a reading passage or a baggy book ready for your child to take home starting either Monday or Tuesday of next week to give them something different to read at home. We will post more about that as soon as we get them ready. Thanks! 
• Weekly-Reading-Log

 of reading per day. 

It is not necessary to fill out a Homework Form for this week’s homework.  Simply initialing the form that comes home with your child’s Baggie Book is sufficient.






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.

1. Visit the following website: http://www.haslett.k12.mi.us/education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectiondetailid=11283&: 
2. Select “Level 200.”  For this week, please read passage # 208 (The Laws of the Land) for MONDAY and TUESDAY, and passage #209 (Our Country’s Government) for WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY. 
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:

 during the entire minute. For instance, if you read the entire passage (137 words) and then read part of it again (39 words) before the one-minute timing was over, your score would be 176 (if you had no mistakes).

• ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION TIMINGS: Complete a 2 minute timing every night for both addition and subtraction facts. Please have your child do EVERY problem in a row, not skipping any. Then draw a line where they end and they will start there the next day. PLEASE CHECK FOR ACCURACY (an answer sheet is included).  Your child should get in about 3 or 4 timings each side. If you have questions let me know. Click below to print timings worksheets (I know the bottom row got cut off – please ignore!):
• CLICK HERE for SUBTRACTION Timings Sheet
• CLICK HERE for ADDITION Timings Sheet