Students
should expect an average of 50 minutes of homework Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, and Thursday evenings. Weekend homework is limited to make up
work or missing assignments.
Homework should be an opportunity for
students to practice skills learned in class and to build connections
between home and school. Often times homework will include teaching an
adult a skill or a vocabulary term learned in class. In math
specifically, our curriculum Investigations emphasizes conceptual
understanding of math concepts. When you discuss your child's math
homework I encourage you to share math strategies you use and challenge
your child to identify connections between multiple strategies. We talk a
lot about the bridge between picturing and building a concept and then
naming it using mathematical terms and number sentences with traditional
symbols and algortihms. The more exposure your child receives the
better!
Nightly Homework:
Reading- Students are to read for 100 minutes a week. They may break these minutes up throughout the week as they choose.
Spelling- Weekly
spelling lists connect to our weekly grammar tests. There are 25 words,
the last five words are challenge words that connect to vocabulary
development by focusing on affixes.
Math-
There will be a nightly math activity. If there is not a worksheet,
students should practice their math facts at an appropriate level of
challenge. See the Useful Links page and explore some online resources.
Weekly Homework:
Reading Response Journals-
Students have been assigned one day every week to turn in a written
Reading Response Journal. Journals will be two paragraphs long. The
first paragraph will include a quick summary of the major plot events
and the second paragraph will be an analysis of one thinking strategy
used to make meaning with the text. In the thinking strategy analysis,
students will provide 2 to 3 specific examples of the strategy being
used in their reading. These journal entries can be submitted
electronically through google drive or handwritten.
