Team Homework
This year, homework may be very different from what you have experienced in the past. We will use a TEAM homework approach. Each week, your child will have a list of homework options. These items will be selected to help your child master basic skills with fluency. Each activity completed will earn your child one star. There may be additional activities listed for those students who need, or like, an extra challenge! The more activities completed, the more stars earned. At the end of the week, your child will need to return the list of homework options with his/her stars totaled and a parent signature. As a class, we will add the stars together to get our class TEAM total to see if students have earned a reward.
The reward will consist of minutes of fun, learning time as follows:
200 -250 stars = 10 minutes of learning game time
251 - 299 stars = 13 minutes of learning game time
300+ stars = 15 minutes of learning game time
Your child has a pink homework folder that will come home every Monday.
Inside the folder:
-a clear sleeve with your child’s playing cards and a ring with our first math card game (a new game will be added every couple of weeks)
-the weekly poem
-the great poetry race recording sheet
-the spelling list for the week (we always do list A)
-a spelling menu with suggested ways to practice spelling words
All of these things should stay in the folder when not being used. The homework folder should return to school every day. This allows your child the opportunity to read their poem to friends at school and for us to practice the math card games as we learn them.
On Friday your child will turn in their completed yellow star sheet. Please be sure to sign.
They do NOT need to turn in any papers used for practice (spelling, math, etc).
Math Card Games:
Fact Family Fun
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