Parents please make sure your student has their backpack, homework folder and Baggie Book EVERYDAY!!!
There are 5 Components to Homework this week.
1. My Math Homework Worksheets: Chapter 4 Subtraction Strategies to 20 Lessons 1-3
2. Timed Math Fluency
3. Reading 20-3o minutes/day
4. Timed Fluency Passages
5. Spelling/Vocabulary Words
All Math, Spelling and Fluency Homework is Due Friday, December 2nd.
Reading Homework will be checked on Monday, December 4th.
1. Math Homework:
Monday: Please review subtraction strategies with your student
Tuesday Lesson 1: Count Back 1, 2, or 3
Wednesday Lesson 2: Use a Number Line to Subtract
Thursday Lesson 3: Use Doubles to Subtract
Worksheets: Please look in the front of your child’s green folder on Monday for worksheets with concepts that will be 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. Please check your child’s answers for accuracy.2. Fluency Timings: This week, we are working on “Make A Ten” again. With your timing in the plastic sheet protector (included in your GREEN folder), use a dry-erase marker to practice MONDAY-THURSDAY. On THURSDAY, have a parent time you while you complete all 20 problems with pencil (write directly on the paper this time). Work on 1 timing each day, Monday-Thursday. On Thursday, record your time and score on the paper, THEN attach it to your student’s homework at the end of the week. [The target goal is to finish all 20 problems in 1 minute, with 90% accuracy (18 out of 20 problems correct).]
Helpful Hint: Here’s how we’re learning to “Make A Ten: Use fingers to show the biggest number. The fingers that are down are what you add to the first number make a 10.
(Example: ____+ 8 =10.) Put 8 fingers up, 2 fingers are down, add them together to make a 10….2+8=10
(Example: 3 +_____=10.) Put 3 fingers up, 7 fingers are down add them together to make a ten… 3+7=10
- Other helpful ways to practice “Make a Ten” are: Make or pull out of a set of flash cards the combinations to make a 10 (1 + 9, 9 + 1, 2 + 8, 8 + 2, 3 + 7, 7 + 3, 4 +6, 6 + 4, 5 + 5).
Be sure to cover one of the addends on the flash cards. Your child then tells you the missing addend needed to make a sum of 10.
*We make “tens” in our head because it’s so easy to add on to 10! (7 + 4 is the same as 7 + 3 = 10 plus 1 more… 11!)
Play the game “Bears in a Cave”: Use 10 small objects to represent bears. Take turns hiding some of the “bears” behind your back (in the cave) and show your partner how many “bears” are not in the cave. They must figure out how many bears are in the cave.
You can use this game or flash cards to learn the strategy instead of the dry-erase practice. Be sure to complete the paper timing still (at least 1 per day).
I Love to read!
3. Reading 20 minutes/5 days or a total of 100 minutes/week.
***Reading comprehension strategy: Help your child read a story and think of a title for it. Then ask your child to tell you two details they learned from the story.UNDERSTANDING what you are reading is just as important as how fast you read (FLUENCY)!!!
PLEASE use these Re-Tell Ropes whenever you are reading with your student checking for understanding. THIS HELPS STUDENTS PREPARE FOR OUR LANGUAGE ARTS WORK ON AND DIBELS TEST COMPREHENSION.
4. Reading Fluency Passages:
Please read over each sentence several times. POINT OUT THE WORDS YOUR STUDENT KNOWS and then GO OVER THE ONES THAT ARE TRICKY. Have them sound out words that follow “Regular Rules.” Time them for ONE, one-two minute timing each day to see how far they can read on their own. Their accuracy/fluency should increase each time they read the sentences.
***Write down how long you timed them (ie 1-2 minutes) circle the last word they read, then record the number of words read correctly next to the minutes timed.
***You may count the timings toward your student’s required weekly reading minutes.***
5. Spelling/Phonics and High Frequency Words: This week’s phonic sound is the long a sound, as in cake, wave, and late.
. We will also be reviewing sh, th, ng, ch, tch and ph as in ship, they, thumb, and ring, cheese, catch and phone.
NEW PHONICS FOCUS WORDS:
make
take
came
game
gate
late
REVIEW WORDS:
chin
graph
VOCABULARY HF WORDS:
some
today
**Please take a few minutes to review what your student writes as well as how. I am VERY picky about where letters are placed, and how they are formed. There should always be a space between words.
***Your student should NEVER BEGIN ANY LETTER FROM THE BOTTOM!!!! ***NO BOTTOM DWELLERS!!! It’s so important that students form good writing habits now. Bad habits are VERY hard to break!
