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I have sent home the students’s red “Homework Folders”. You can use these at home to help them keep track of their printed out homework, and cut out sorts. On Fridays, I DO NOT want these folders turned it. All I need is the written on homework sheets your child has filled out (Preferably stapled or paper-clipped together).

We are in full swing with math fluency! Knowing our math addition, and eventually subtraction, facts is a high priority in our class. If you have noticed a MATH FLUENCY section in home work, this is what I am talking about. In class we are learning strategies to help us add quickly in our heads. We have learned doubles (4+4, 7+7, etc.), and making 10’s (6+4=10, 3+7=10, etc.) In class we are compiling a stack of flash cards that are going to help us with this here at school. When we are finished making all of our flash cards, probably next week sometime, I will send students home with there very own flash cards to help them at home.

Each week we will do a one-minute timed addition fluency sheet in class. The goal is to see improvement! If their score is low right now, no worries!! We want to see growth over time. Students will be graphing their own results each week. When their score improves by 5, there will be an incentive here in class. Here is a link if you want to print some out for them at home to practice!

Addition timed fluency sheet 

Here is a fabulous website that can help them at home until they bring their flashcards home. I encourage you to have them practice a few minutes each night!

Math magician website

***All of these websites are listed in the Homework section, for future reference!

Last week we thoroughly went through the process of homework. Today I went through all of that “sample homework”, checked it and added notes to any corrections that needed to be made. I sent them home today with your children. Hopefully this might show you how each nights homework should be done. If I wrote a little note on it, just follow what i suggested. If I wrote a smiley face or “great” on it, they did exactly as instructed. We did all of this work as a class, so it should have been done perfectly if they followed along.  
Watch for this “sample homework” to come home this week for any pointers on their work! Thank you for your support at home, have a fabulous week!

Homework 

Print off the homework each week, complete and return on Friday!

Homework

Print Math Homework

Nightly Homework

 

Word Sorts

Daily practice of lessons is critical to your child’s academic success. Children need to be completing their homework daily. All of the spelling (word work) assignments are the same weekly, only the word lists change. The new words can be found here on the blog on Monday. Your child’s Word Sorts are specific to their learning needs.

Passing word sorts with a proficiency level of 80% is required. If your child did not pass their word sort test last week, they will continue to work on their previous sort until it is mastered. Tests will be passed back on Mondays, a sticker on their test indicates a passing grade, please continue on to the next sort.

Print Student’s Sorts:

Yellow 25– Trinity, TJ, Andrew, Elizabeth, Caleb
Red 7–  Ace, Troy
Red 13– Rose, Gracie, Ashlynn, Ellie T., Ellie, J.
Yellow 19-  Micah, Bella, Madelyn, Kyle, Mason, Jesse, Parker, Winter, Ben, Payton, Alex, JJ, Brooklin, McKinlee, Kaylee, 

Spelling- 

Every Monday I will post a list of 5 spelling words that your child will need to be able to read/use in a sentence/SPELL! Students will be tested on Friday!

SPELLING LIST:

until, both, year, since, end

Here are some fun ideas to practice your spelling words each night.

• Typing spelling lists on the computer is very motivating. Use the computer to write sentences for each spelling words.  It’s a great way to teach word processing skills.
• Invest in a set of letter stampers and let your child stamp out their spelling words.
• Give your child a Scrabble board.  Let them take the letters out of the bag, lay them on the table face-up, and try to fit all of their spelling words on the board.
• Collage- cut individual letter from magazines to spell out your words.
• Get a set of magnetic letters.  (You can find them cheap at garage sales.)  Give your child letters, a spelling list, and a timer.  See if they can complete it in 1-3 minutes.

• Create a Wordle using your spelling words (Use the 5 High frequency words for this week)

Go to wordle.net, Have your child type in all of their spelling words and print off a cool wordle!

• Go to SpellingCity.com and practice your spelling words, practice tests and play games. The username is your first and last name squished together, The password is rams. example:johnsmith Accounts are set up!

Math Fluency 

Print off some addition drills and practice them nightly.Use flash cards to memorize addition math facts.Addition Drills to 18– 100 problems per page. Includes horizontal and  vertical format 

• Practice math on these printable math worksheets on tlsbooks.com
• Math Magician- Practice addition drills http://resources.oswego.org/games/mathmagician/cathymath.html It is so important for students to know their math facts (adding or subtracting 5+3 quickly, flash cards). As we get into more ways to add and subtract, having this skill mastered helps them with all aspects of math. So please, help your child with their math facts!

 *Items will change as we get further into the year and assignments will align with what we are learning in class, so check back weekly!

Math Unit Worksheet:

Print Math Worksheet

 *Items will change as we get further into the year and assignments will align with what we are learning in class, so check back weekly!

We are learning about plants this month for science! We are going to do a lot of exciting things including having a Bee Keeper come visit our class. He will be visiting us tomorrow, Wednesday September 3. He will be bringing in an observation hive with live honeybees and he will talk about the process of pollinating plants. The bees are completely contained and the students love to see them at work. If you are uncomfortable having your child in the classroom at this time, please let me know and I can arrange something/somewhere they can be at this time.

Thank you to those of you who have submitted book orders! Buying books with our classroom code enables us to build our library! If you would like to place an order online, it is so easy! Click on the link in the right sidebar and it will take you right to our class code book order. Thanks again, you are all so wonderful!

Anytime I grade something and send it home you will see a score or a check mark. If I write “fix and return” on their work, this gives them an opportunity to sit with you and fix any problems they missed, and return it for a better grade. This time can count towards their 20 minutes of homework each night. Any extra support from home they can get is so beneficial! Thank you for your support.

Next week we are starting Homework! Your child has been “trained” on how to complete their homework. We have been working on sorts this week in school and filling out a practice homework sheet. When you start this at home, they should be experts. If they are struggling with what to do, just send me an email with any questions. 

They should be spending 20 minutes each night on homework. In addition, they should read 20 minutes every night!!

Have a great LONG weekend!!