Homework (Oct. 2-6)

Homework this week is due on Friday, October 6:

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 help your child read the directions/example problems and allow them to talk about the problems as they figure out the answers. 
• Fluency Timings:  This week, we are working on “Count Back 1, 2, or 3”.  With your timing in the plastic sheet protector (included in your blue folder), use a dry-erase marker to practice. When you’re ready, 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. Record your time and score on the paper and turn in all 4 completed timings with your math homework at the end of the week. [Emphasize improvement on personal time, rather than finishing within a minute.]

   Helpful Hint:  Here’s how we’re learning to “count back” in class:  Start with the bigger number and count back.

   Example: 8 – 2.  Snap your finger (or clap) and say “8” then count back 2: say “8” (with a snap)…”7” (hold up 1 finger)…”6” (hold up 2 fingers).

• Ideas for extra math practice: Math Facts Activities 

**LANGUAGE ARTS HOMEWORK** 

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.  Reading comprehension strategy: Help your child read a story and then retell the events from the story in the correct order.

3- Spelling /Phonics:  beginning consonant blends Help your child identify the two beginning sounds that blend together in each spelling word. This week’s phonic sounds are beginning r- and s-blends, as in the words stop, grin, and drip. Help your child think of other words that begin with the same sounds.