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Your child’s homework calendar will let you know what their weekly homework assignments are. Please leave the calendar in the homework section of your child’s notebook so that you can keep up with daily homework assignments. I will also include important reminders. I will replace it each week and I will place the homework sheet in homework section with the calendar. Please use the homework calendar to help you make sure your child is prepared for school everyday.

Aside from your child’s assigned homework, please work with your child on the following as much as possible:

·    Reading: Please read to your child as often as you can. Before you read a story, talk about the title of the book and point to it. Talk about the cover and ask your child what they think the story will be about. Also, tell your child who the author and illustrator are and talk about what they do (we’ve talked about this in class). As you read, ask your child to predict what will happen next. If your child recognizes a word, let them read it. Every time your child learns a new word, make sure you give him/her the opportunity to read that word every time you see it. Use your finger to point to each word as your read it. Move your finger under every word. Sound words out together (touch each letter of a word and say the sound that the letter makes. Then blend the sounds together to make the word.) After you have read a story, ask your child questions about it. Do they know what happened in the beginning, middle and at the end of the story? Ask your child to tell you what the story was about in just a few sentences. Finally, ask your child if he/she liked the story and why. Talk about rhyming words and discuss why they rhyme. Work on words that begin the same (with the same letter). Practice the sounds that letters make.

 

·    Recognizing upper and lowercase letters and numbers through 30: Before heading off to 1st grade, your child needs to be able to confidently recognize all the letters (upper and lowercase) as well as the numbers 0-30. Please note this does not mean, “Can your child count to 30 and say the alphabet?”. Recognizing means being able to name the letters and numbers when they see them. Using flashcards is a great way to help your child practice recognition. Remember to mix the cards up so that they are in random order. Your child will also need to be able to write these letters and numbers. Call the letters and numbers out and see if your child can write them on a piece of paper.

 

·    Math: Please help your child practice counting objects in a set by touching each item as he/she counts. Also, work on sorting (sorting laundry works great) and making patterns. Practice the days of the week, months of the year and seasons with your child.

 

·    Writing: Help your child learn to print his/her first name correctly (first letter capital and the rest lowercase). Once your child can print his/her first name, start working his/her last name. Encourage your child to write sentences.

 

·    General: Work on following directions, being respectful, being responsible and being safe. Help your child learn his/her phone number and address. See if your child knows YOUR first name. Work on tying shoe laces.

·    Please make sure that you are checking your child’s “Take-home” notebook every evening. If there is homework in the home work section, please see to it that your child does it. Homework is a very important part of your child’s learning!

 

 

·    Please allow your child to do his/her OWN homework. It is important that you help your child and that you are there to assist them if there is something that they do not understand, but the children will not benefit if you do the homework for them.

 

 

 

·    The small “Paper books” that I send home for homework do not need to be returned to school. Just keep them at home and continue to use them as practice.

 

Book in a Bag Program

Your child will start bringing home a bag with 3 books and a reading log on Monday, October 15th. The reading log is a record of which bags of books your child has taken home. Please record the bag # and initial the reading log ONCE a week. This is necessary to ensure that no child gets the same bag of books twice. Your child will receive new books every Monday. Please read these books with your child throughout the week and return the books and the reading log (filled out for that week) enclosed in the bag to school every Friday.

It will be required that a complete set of books be returned before a different one will be issued. Each bag has 3 books in it, so 3 books should come back to school. If you receive a bag that doesn’t have 4 books, please let me know ASAP. Also, please see to it that younger siblings do not write in or tear up these books. There is a charge of $2 per book, if they are lost or damaged.

Your child will be assigned a day during the week to read one of the books in their bag to the class.  Every week they will read on their assigned day.  Please send in the book your child wants to read on their assigned day and we will send it back home in their folder. Please take the time to read the books with your child so that they will be prepared to read one of the books on their own on their assigned day.  It is very important for you to make sure that they return all the books in a bag on Friday of each week and that you have recorded the bag number and written your initials in the reading log. After reading one of their books to the class, each child will place a sticker beside his/her name on our reading chart.  At the end of every month, the students that have had their reading logs signed and read a book to the class each week, will get a coupon for a one-topping Personal Pan Pizza, from Pizza-Hut, through the Book It program.

 

Listed below is the schedule for shared reading.

Tuesday- Khalil, Julie, Pearson, Caitlyn

 

Wednesday- Malloreigh, Will, Luke, Bree, Dane

 

Thursday-  Samantha, Skylar, Dakoda, Zachary, David, Sean

 

Friday- Vion, Austin, Joe, Nate, Phillip