Homework

Homework provides students with opportunites to deepen their understanding and skills relative to content that has been initially presented to them. Homework also helps students develop good study habits, teaches responsibility, fosters positive attutudes toward school and communicates to students the idea that learning takes place at home as well as at school.

Tips for Parents to facilitate good homework habits:

• Please make homework a top priority
• Set a daily homework time
• Provide a quiet learning environment
• Provide the necessary supplies
• Encourage, motivate and prompt your child, but do not sit with them and do the homework for them

HOMEWORK 8/31/10 through 9/3/10:

• Read for at least 15 to 20 minutes a night including Saturday or Sunday. Write 2 sentences summarizing what you have read.  Record your minutes on your reading log and have your parents sign the log. Turn in your reading log on September 7, 2010.
• Practice weekly spelling words including the "challenge words":  Iris and Walter:  drum, rock, list, desk, job, sad, chop, sack, tag, rib, mess, dust, pocket, lettuce, engine, and our BONUS word is "check."   Test Friday, September 10, 2010.
• Visit Spelling City
• Iris and Walter: Family Times.  Do 2 activities, due Friday, September 10, 2010.  Have your parents sign or initial the activities you have completed.
• Math Homework sheet and Fact sheet - Side B.

Although there may be some exceptions, homework should not take more than 20 minutes to complete. This time does not include the reading minutes.