Homework and more...
*No Homework the week of 11/24-11/28 due to the two day school week for Thanksgiving*
| Day | 
Mrs.Evensen/Mundo 1st Grade | Homework Due: No Homework this week |
Monday Read for 15 minutes. Ask your child to identify the main idea and three details. | Reading: (5 minutes)
Parents/family member should read the poem The Mayflower to the student a few times.
| Math: (15 minutes)
Complete all of the daily problem solving. This week we would like you to have your child practice their math facts online on mixed level 1 and print only the score page to turn in. |
Tuesday Read for 15 minutes. Ask your child to identify the main idea and three details. | Reading (5 minutes):
Student should read the poem The Mayflower to a family member a minimum of two times. Be sure students are reading with prosody (stopping at the periods, reading fluently the way it would sound if an adult would read it).
| Math (5) minutes:
Practice comparing numbers online. Spelling (10 minutes):
Chose two spelling activities from the Tic-Tac Toe board to practice words misspelled on the pretest. |
Wednesday Read for 15 minutes. Ask your child to identify the main idea and three details. | Reading (5 minutes):
Students should read the poem The Mayflower to a family member. Then ask the student if they had any connections to the poem. Have them recite their connection.
| Writing:
Here is another example to show the three levels our students are writing. Have your child make a web and write an essay for the following prompt: You may choose to use this lined paper if you like. "Everyone goes to school. Think about something you like at school. Now write to explain why you like it." |
Thursday Read for 15 minutes. Ask your child to identify the main idea and three details. | Reading (5 minutes):
Student should read the poem The Mayflower to a family member again. Students then complete the main idea train for the poem being sure to draw mental images for each train car. Writing: (5 minutes) Assist your child in writing a sentence for 2 vocabulary words. | Math (5 minutes):
Practice math facts with flash cards/online OR play with tangrams online.
Spelling (10 minutes): Chose a spelling activity from theTic-Tac Toe board to practice words misspelled and give your child two sentences using spelling words to write.
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| Tic-Tac Toe Spelling Activity Directions: |
Rainbow Write Sensory Spelling Step Spelling | Ransom Note Color Coded Word Shapes | Picture + Word Spending Spelling Exercise Spelling |
*Mrs. Evensen's Reading Group*
| High Frequency Words: | Spelling Words: | Vocabulary for the Week
Little Read Hen |
1. day
2. eat
3. first
4. said
5. time
6. was
| 1. set
2. sent
3. ten
4. tell
5. let
6. get
7. bell
8. red
9. make
10. of
* Remember you only need to practice the words for homework that your student spelled incorrectly on their pretest. | Spelling Pattern: new~
short e
| 1. chorus~ a group singing or saying something together.
2. odor~ you can tell what it is by the way it smells.
3. shoved~ when you push hard against someone or something.
4. assemble~ putting all of the pieces together.
5. consume~ completly using something up.
6. enthusiastic~ you really like something and are excited about it.
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*Mrs. Mundo's Reading Group*
Spelling:
| Robust Vocabulary Words:
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No spelling this week. Instead of spelling homework, please write a sentence for every vocabulary word by Friday. Also, complete the vocabulary sheet. |
| nuzzled - if an animal nuzzled against you, it would be rubbing you with its face or nose inhabit - if an animal inhabits a place, it lives there dine - saying that you dine is a fancy way of talking about eating
regret - a person who has a regret feel sorry for something he or she did
chatty - if you are chatty, you like to talk
assemble - if people assembled somewhere, they all got together applauded - if you applauded something, you clapped your hands to show you liked it
classify - when you classify something, you put it into a group with other things like it
soared - if you soared, you flew very high into the air This week we are going to make a vocabulary book to illustrate these words. *If your child is completing homework very quickly and you would like some more challenging work, please let me know.* |
When we assign homework it is not designed to be busy work. We try to assign meaningful work that will help our students be more successful. If your child is meeting expectations they should be able to complete the homwork in, or close to, the time mentioned next to each activity. Memorized math facts are 10% of every student in Rymfire's math grade. In the first quarter of first grade students are expected to be able to add with sums no greater than 10. In is not uncommon for first graders to write slowly which can affect the amount of time spent on homework. Keep in mind this also affects them at school and on tests and will only improve with practice. When they are working on writing, help them only if absolutely necessary. They do have to write an expository essay from a prompt in 45 minutes from start to finish. For homework, we have broken this up over three days. If you are concerned with the amount of time your child is spending on homework, please let us know so we can discuss the problem.
This page last updated 11/16/08
