*ALL MATH, SPELLING AND TIMED READING FLUENCY HOMEWORK IS DUE FRIDAY, March 3rd
**ALL READING MINUTES NEED TO BE RECORDED ON YOUR STUDENTS READING LOG SUNDAY , March 5th.
***READING MINUTES ALSO NEED TO BE RECORDED SUNDAY, March 3rd FOR THE LIBRARY CHALLENGE. IT REALLY IS SO SIMPLE AND TAKES LESS THAN A MINUTE TO COMPLETE.
There are only 6 components to this weeks homework:
1- My Math Worksheets: 1-4
***Last Chance to turn in Math Timing Subtraction Form B for credit.***
2-Math Timings: Adding Two’s
3- Reading Fluency: Story #13
4-Reading Minutes: (20 minutes/day or a total of 100 minutes/week)
***WEEKLY READING MINUTES MUST BE RECORDED BY SUNDAY FOR CREDIT (Checked Monday). LATE RECORDED MINUTES WILL NOT BE RECORDED FOR CREDIT.
***PLEASE, PLEASE REMEMBER TO RECORD YOUR STUDENT’S MINUTES FOR OUR LIBRARY CHALLENGE TOO.
You can find the link to record your minutes on our blog under the Library Reading Challenge tab.
5- Spelling
6- ***Important Question of the Week: When you grow up, what do you want to do for a career?
I LOVE MATH!!
1-My Math Homework for the Week: No My math worksheets this week!
Monday Lesson 1: Compare Lengths
Tuesday Lesson 2: Compare and Order Lengths
Wednesday Lesson 3: Nonstandard Units of Length
Thursday Lesson 4: Problem Solving: Guess, Check, and Revise
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: FROM NOW ON…ONLY TIME YOUR STUDENT FOR 1 MINUTE 15 SECONDS!!! I WANT THEM TO GET USED TO WORKING WITHIN THAT TIME CONSTRAINT… THEN, Record their score each day. We are going to be repeating some past math timings, so, please watch carefully to see which one we are going to be working on each week.
- Click here for timings: Fluency Timings
2 + 2 = 4 Picture a wagon with 2 wheels on each side and 4 wheels total
3 + 3 = 6 Picture a 6 pack of soft drinks, with 3 cans on each side
4 + 4 = 8 Picture a spider with 4 legs on each side and 8 legs total
5 + 5 = 10 Picture 5 fingers on each hand and 10 fingers total
6 + 6 = 12 Picture a dozen of eggs with 6 eggs in each row and 12 eggs total
7 + 7 = 14 Picture two weeks on a calendar with 7 days in each week and 14 days total
8 + 8 = 16 Picture a 16 pack of crayons with 8 crayons in each row and 16 crayons total
9 + 9 = 18 Picture a semi (18 wheeler) with 9 wheels on each side and 18 wheels total
10 + 10 = 20 Picture all your fingers and toes for a total of 20
3- One Minute Reading Fluency: Lesson #13 Please print from this link: Phonics Fluency Stories
This daily ONE MINUTE ONLY!!! timed fluency reading will help your student become a fluent reader. It will also count as reading minutes. When I check through students reading fluency, they aren’t consistent with how they are reading in class. Make sure you are only recording the words read correctly within that 1 minute timing only.
*Want to save paper? Have your student read the passage online, then simply record their CORRECT words read/minute each day on their spelling homework form.
4- Reading: 20 minutes/day or a total of 100 minutes/week:
RECORD YOUR READING MINUTES ON THE “BOOK IT” READING LOG located in your student’s green folder.
***There are several sources for reading: “Reading for all Learners” also known as”Baggy Books,” books from the school library, books from home, as well as the public library.
The following are programs are EXTRAS, that your student can do for EXTRA PRACTICE. They are not a required part of weekly homework.
Students may use our online reading program Raz-Kids. Our class Raz-Kids login is: dvella0 (That’s a zero)
WATERFORD: You should have all received an email, from WEL support, around the 12th of January. Waterford, a L.A,program, covers many aspects spelling, reading and writing. We use it in our first grade classes on a daily basis.
FRONT ROW: While this is not a new program, it is new to our class. Friday your student took a FRONT ROW pretest for WORD STUDY. They are all leveled, and ready to go. Basically, they will be practicing word sorts according to certain basic phonics/spelling rules . They need to enter their first and last name, as well as OUR CLASS CODE: vellau
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns with any of these programs. I will do my best to answer your questions, and if I can’t, will do some research to find them.
DON’T FORGET TO PRACTICE COMPREHENSION WHEN READING WITH YOUR STUDENT!!!
5. Phonics and High Frequency Words
High Frequency Words
Here is the link to print our weekly spelling homework form: New Weekly Spelling Homework **Remember if you choose not to print off and use this form you need to make sure your student is writing each word and the sentence daily on paper, and that all writing is nice and neat as well as organized like the form, and that the papers get turned in on Friday for credit.
Our spelling test will be Friday, February 24th.
NEW WORDS:
called
now
each
way
did
PHONICS FOCUS WORDS:
Bill
hiss
less
SENTENCE: “Now which way?” called Bill.
The spelling words with sentence are worth 18 points/day this week. The spelling test will be given Friday.
***Your student needs to write EACH SPELLING WORD ONCE in the 1st 5 boxes and the 3 Phonics words in the following 3 boxes. There should be plenty of space to write the sentence once on the 2 lines provided at the bottom of each page on the form.
**I have noticed that there have been students not following these required guidelines and, are therefore, NOT GETTING FULL CREDIT!
6- ***Important Question of the Week: When you grow up, what do you want to do for a career?
Please post responses in the comments/response box below, so that your student’s response shows .
