Homework will be sent home in a homework folder on Monday's and due on Friday's.
READING
Reading at home can make a HUGE difference! Establishing a daily reading routine with your child is an expectation. This should be a time in your home routine that is looked forward too! Your first grade student is at the prime age of reading to you as well as you reading to them. Twenty minutes a day is all it takes to build key reading skills!
Here are some tips for integrating reading into your daily family activities:
How To Read With A Beginning Reader:
• Encourage your child to use his/her finger to point to each word.
• Read a sentence and have your child repeat it.
• Take turns reading a sentence each or a page each.
• Talk about the story as you read it. What do you think will happen next? What does this story remind you of? How do you think this character feels?
• Don’t be afraid to read the same book again! Repeated reading helps build reading fluency!
Check For Understanding
Start the book by making predictions. What do you think will happen in this story?
Ask questions and make comments during the reading process.
After reading a book, have your child tell you the events from the story in the correct order.
What was the problem in this story?
How did the character feel when…?
Encourage your child to make connections. Does this story remind you of another book you read, an event in your life, a movie?
information from: TipsForParentsReadingAtHome.pdf
Reading Log Form:
docs.google.com/a/engschools.net/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfE3tg9CvH2QgiVfaZhWo5Gi-gRLN_6pa7mdPO7CjUrAa54Vw/viewform
You and your child will complete the Reading Log Form on a daily basis. In order for your child to earn 50 cents at the end of each week, this must be completed on a daily basis.
Reading at home can make a HUGE difference! Establishing a daily reading routine with your child is an expectation. This should be a time in your home routine that is looked forward too! Your first grade student is at the prime age of reading to you as well as you reading to them. Twenty minutes a day is all it takes to build key reading skills!
Here are some tips for integrating reading into your daily family activities:
- Read bedtime stories
- Play a board game
- Visit your local library
- Read a recipe and cook something yummy together!
- Create a comfy reading space in your home.
- Put your child in charge of reading the grocery list at the store
- Keep plenty of reading materials in your home: books, magazines, newspapers, and comic books. Children enjoy having a variety of reading materials!
How To Read With A Beginning Reader:
• Encourage your child to use his/her finger to point to each word.
• Read a sentence and have your child repeat it.
• Take turns reading a sentence each or a page each.
• Talk about the story as you read it. What do you think will happen next? What does this story remind you of? How do you think this character feels?
• Don’t be afraid to read the same book again! Repeated reading helps build reading fluency!
Check For Understanding
Start the book by making predictions. What do you think will happen in this story?
Ask questions and make comments during the reading process.
After reading a book, have your child tell you the events from the story in the correct order.
What was the problem in this story?
How did the character feel when…?
Encourage your child to make connections. Does this story remind you of another book you read, an event in your life, a movie?
information from: TipsForParentsReadingAtHome.pdf
Reading Log Form:
docs.google.com/a/engschools.net/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfE3tg9CvH2QgiVfaZhWo5Gi-gRLN_6pa7mdPO7CjUrAa54Vw/viewform
You and your child will complete the Reading Log Form on a daily basis. In order for your child to earn 50 cents at the end of each week, this must be completed on a daily basis.
Math:
Bridges Math Home Connections:
You’ll see the first math homework assignment the second week of this unit. A new assignment will be sent home twice each week for the rest of the school year. Plan to spend 10–20 minutes on these assignments. If an assignment is taking longer, consider setting it aside and coming back to it after a break. If you find homework is taking more than 20 minutes, please contact me.
Math homework will be sent home on Monday and will be due on Friday.
Extra Math Practice:
Math Home Connections Completion:
Bridges Math Home Connections:
You’ll see the first math homework assignment the second week of this unit. A new assignment will be sent home twice each week for the rest of the school year. Plan to spend 10–20 minutes on these assignments. If an assignment is taking longer, consider setting it aside and coming back to it after a break. If you find homework is taking more than 20 minutes, please contact me.
Math homework will be sent home on Monday and will be due on Friday.
Extra Math Practice:
- Go to the math page on this website and have your child log onto the math websites for 15-20 minutes at a time to build their math skills.
Math Home Connections Completion:
- Ten Ladybugs: Complete Tuesday, August 23rd
- Changes, Changes & Show Me Combinations: Complete during the week of August 29th. Please note that this is due on Thursday, September 1st because there is no school on Friday, September 2nd.
- Ten Frames (2 Pages): Due Friday, September 9th.
- Popsicle Tallies: Complete Wednesday, September 14th.
- One More, One Less: Due Friday, September 23rd.
- Which Coin Will Win?: Due Friday, September 23rd.
- One More Dot, One Less Dot: Due Friday, September 30th
- Domino Magic Squares: Due Friday, October 7th
- More Domino Magic Squares: Due Friday, October 7th
- Number & Domino Dots: Due Thursday, October 13th
- Number Writing 0-200: Due Thursday, October 13th
- Dots, Apples & Shapes: Due Wednesday, October 19th
- Dot and Dollars & Addition and Subtraction Problems: Due Friday, October 28th
- Counting by Fives and Tens & Math Number Story Problems: Due Friday, November 4th
- Double It! & Counting and Adding Practice: Due Friday, November 11th
- Sixes, Crayons and Coins & Ten and Twenty: Due Friday, November 18th
- Tens and Ones & Add Ten Facts: Due Friday, December 2nd
- Unifix Cubes Equations, Sevens & Unifix Cubes Equations, Eights: Friday, December 9th
Fundations is a systematic phonetic based curriculum that explicitly teaches your child the basics for reading and spelling. You are your child's coach through this Fundations homework and I will continue to be their teacher. I will send home as much information to help you coach your child with our Fundations program that I am teaching so that we become a united team.
I will send the full units home with your child at the beginning of each unit in their Homework Folder. It is important that you read through the materials explicitly before assigning your child their Fundations homework. The family letter will give you guidance as well as the worksheets. Please check below for due dates of each unit.
Unit 1 - Due: Thursday, September 1st.
Unit 2 - Due: Friday, September 16th (Early Release Friday)-writing grid paper - dictate words/sentences to your child.
Unit 3 - Due: Friday, September 30th (pages that are due: 34, 35, & 38)
Unit 4 - Due: Thursday, October 13th (highlighted pages within the packet)
Unit 5 - Due: Friday, November 4th (highlighted pages within the packet)
Unit 6 - Due: Friday, Dec. 9th (highlighted pages within the packet)
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I will send the full units home with your child at the beginning of each unit in their Homework Folder. It is important that you read through the materials explicitly before assigning your child their Fundations homework. The family letter will give you guidance as well as the worksheets. Please check below for due dates of each unit.
Unit 1 - Due: Thursday, September 1st.
Unit 2 - Due: Friday, September 16th (Early Release Friday)-writing grid paper - dictate words/sentences to your child.
Unit 3 - Due: Friday, September 30th (pages that are due: 34, 35, & 38)
Unit 4 - Due: Thursday, October 13th (highlighted pages within the packet)
Unit 5 - Due: Friday, November 4th (highlighted pages within the packet)
Unit 6 - Due: Friday, Dec. 9th (highlighted pages within the packet)
- Please make 2 extra copies of page 55 for your child to complete the activities for Week 2 & 3. If you need assistance with this, please let me know.
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