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Homework is sent home every Friday

 or Monday and is returned the following Friday. 

Weekly Homework Assignment

September 7-10, 2010

Everything you need for your child to succeed in our first grade reading program is on this page.  Click on the powerpoints throughout the week and spend about 15-30 minutes reviewing the pages each night and watch your child grow and develop a love for reading and learning.

1.  Please read the passages, books or stories that are sent home.  Please return all readers or books each day so they can be used in the classroom.

Click on the following sites for additional online practice to help your child with our Scott Foresman Reading Street reading series:

Story for the week: 

Unit 1/Story 3 - The Big Blue Ox

Unit 1 Spelling Words

Story and skill powerpoints to do with your child:

Click on the Koala next to the topic or skill you want to practice with your child:

Story 3:  The Big Blue Ox 

Powerpoint made by Diane Woodham.

Unit 1 Story 3: The Big Blue Ox

Powerpoints made by Kristi Waltke from New Market  Elementary School in Jefferson County, TN.

Words to Read Powerpoint

Word Wall Words Powerpoint

Character and Setting

Action Parts Powerpoint

 

Spelling Practice Powerpoint

Making Words Powerpoint

 

 

Amazing Words Powerpoint

 

 

 

High Frequency Words:

 

 

past
present
produce
transportation
danger
serve
snuggle
enormous
powerful

 

 

Graphic Organizers & Charts:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spelling

Additional Spelling Practice:

www.spellingcity.com

Math

1.  Review the daily math sheets that are completed each day in class and check for understanding.  Math test is every Friday on that week's lessons.

Click on the topic you are interested in for additional ideas, interactive activities to help you child: 

Reading  Math   Spelling 

Sight Words 

(Dolch words and Fry Words)

Please refer to homework tips by clicking this link:

Pointers to help your child

I am absolutely delighted about our new reading series, Scott Foresman Reading Street.  Your child will love the activities, stories, and extra practice this program provides to ensure your child's success in reading.  Please be sure to click the links below to provide additional help for your child at home and interactive games to help your child with learning the words.  I do ask that you try to read with your child each night for at least 15 - 30 minutes.  Go over the reading stories that are sent home and return the stories or book the following day.  Please place the extra reading passages in a binder for your child to keep at home and read for enjoyment.  They do not need to be returned to school -- only sheets requiring the child to write responses.  

Read the material first, while your child follows along, to demonstrate and model pacing (reading speed and pausing at periods and commas) and expressive reading (changing your voice when reading sentences ending with question marks or exclamation marks).  Then read one sentence at a time and have your child echo the sentence.  Be sure s/he changes her/his voice when reading sentences with exclamation marks or question marks.  Then choral read with your child.  This means your child is reading with you.  At this point, your child should be able to read independently.  They may need to read the passage three or four times before they read it with automaticity and fluency.  Be sure to praise your child for every effort to build confidence and self-esteem.  The more your child reads, the better reader s/he will become.  Provide story books, magazines or any other type of reading material that might interest your child.  Chapter books such as The Magic Tree House, Reading A-Z Mysteries and the 'new' Calendar Mysteries, Henry and Mudge, Junie B. Jones, and Nate the Great are fun stories that your child will love.  You can read a chapter with your child each night and then have your child predict what might happen next.  Believe me -- your child will not be able to wait until the next night to find out what happens in the next chapter.  Reading chapter books with your child in first grade, prepares them to read these books on their own without feeling intimidated by the quantity of words and pages.  As a parent, be sure your child sees you reading for a past-time and for enjoyment.  Each time your child sees you reading, s/he will learn that reading is fun and informative and not just something required from school.  MAKE IT FUN!!!

The following links provide help, activities, interactive games and on-line stories to help with reading skills:

This website goes along with our reading program, Scott Foresman Reading Street, and is used in our classroom to teach your child in whole and small group reading instruction.  It would be helpful to go over the powerpoint activities on this site and let your child interact with the activities to reinforce what we are doing in the classroom. 

 http://classroom.jc-schools.net/waltkek/FirstGrade.html

This website is used often in our computer lab and provides extensive practice in the area of reading.  This is an excellent website to ensure your child is getting the reading practice s/he needs.

http://www.starfall.com/

This is a great site to help build reading and literacy skills.  It has a wide range of activities you can print off that will help your child with many skills required in first grade.

http://www.ed.gov/pubs/CompactforReading/table1.html

This website has a selection of books your child can read online and some of the books have word-by-word sound so if your child gets stuck on a word, s/he can click the word to hear it spoken.  This is a wonderful resource to encourage the love for reading.

http://www.magickeys.com/books/index.html

This website is AMAZING!! Just click on the red circles to practice the skill that is causing your child difficulty.  It takes you to a wide variety of activities your child can play and even tests your child can take.  This is an excellent resource to reinforce what is being taught in your child's classroom

http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/ps1gle.htm

This site provides a list of books that might interest your child.  It also has an activity that allows your child to create his/her own story.

http://www.storyplace.org/

This is a wonderful site that provides links to sites for phonics, fairy tales, stories that are read online, letter recognition, literacy activities, and sight word activities.  This is another site that you will want to visit often.

http://www.usd267.com/TL%20Student%20Pages/

K1studentlinks/K1readinglinks.html

Your child will simply LOVE this site!!  It has a variety of silly stories that are read to them online.  Each word is highlighted as it is read.  A GREAT RESOURCE -- especially if your child wants to hear a book and you are busy cooking supper or doing housework at the moment!!

http://www.sillybooks.net/page_two.htm

This is another great site that allows your child to listen to stories.  Except this time, the story is read by a real person.  This site is provided by The Screen Actors Guild Foundation

http://www.storylineonline.net/

These are terrific sites that allows your child to play interactive literacy games.  This will be a favorite site for your child.

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/

interactive/literacy/index.htm

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/

Games/educational/literacy2.htm

This is a terrific site that allows your child to listen to stories online.  It also highlights the word as it is being read.  This will be a favorite site for your child.

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/

interactive/onlinestory.htm

This site is filled with interactive activities to help your child with literacy skills, sight words, and reading.  

http://www.gamequarium.com/readquarium/index.html

http://www.rif.org/readingplanet/

Math homework will consist of reviewing the Saxon practice sheets that are sent home daily or weekly, along with the 

Number Families booklet that is sent home at the beginning of each school year.  Please go over the practice sheets each night and go over any areas that are giving your child difficulty.

• Practice counting to 100 by 1's, 2's, 5's, and 10's and even counting backwards

• Help your child learn to tell time.  Start with the hour and half hour and then show them how to begin with 1 and count by five's to determine the time the big hand is showing.

• Provide your child a measuring tape or ruler and help him/her measure objects through out the house.

• Give your child an allowance to help him/her learn about money and the value of money.  A good rule of thumb is one dollar for each year old your child is.  For example, if your child is 7 years old, s/he receives $7.00 each week.  Teach your child how to manage money.  Get three jars (all different sizes).  Have your child place 60 percent of his/her earnings in the biggest jar for savings (be sure to help your child count the money and even show him/her how to use the calculator to figure the amount), place 30 percent of his/her earnings in the next size jar for spending, and then 10 percent in the smallest jar for donations/contributions.  At the end of the month or year give the money in the smallest jar that was designated for donations/contributions to a charity or church of your choice.  This teaches your child early to be money smart and to save more than s/he spends.  Hopefully when s/he grows up and is on their own, they will be able to manage money well.

• Practice addition and subtraction by using household items.  You could ask your child, for example how many windows are in your bedroom and how many windows are in the family room.  Show him/her how to add the numbers together.  Then do the same type of activity for subtraction.  For example, I have 5 plates in the sink, I have already washed 3 -- How many more do I need to wash.  The more real you make it, the better your child will be able to grasp the concept of addition and subtraction.

The following links provide ideas, activities and interactive games to help with math skills:

This site allows your child to practice a variety of math skills and then take timed tests on those skills.  This is a good resource to reinforce the Saxon math lessons completed and reviewed in class.

http://www.aaaknow.com/grade1.htm

This site provides practice with a variety of math skills.  It has a wonderful addition/subtraction flash card game that keeps up with your child's score.  It is a wonderful resource to help your child speed up in addition and subtraction and provides lots of extra practice.  It also has a homework helper section.

http://www.aplusmath.com

This website can help your child with a variety of math concepts including addition, subtraction, counting money and much more.

http://www.webmath.com/

This site has math games according to grade level.  It has a fun game with flowers and bees that helps your child with addittion.

http://www.funbrain.com/

This is a wonderful site that covers almost every math skill taught in first grade.  It has many games that will give your child the practice s/he needs to be successful in mathematics.

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/

The following website has money games your child can play to learn to count money:

http://www.coe.uh.edu/archive/math/math_lessons

/mathles3/tutor.htm

The following website has a variety of games your child can play to learn first grade math skills:

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_1st.htm

The following website has a variety of games your child can play to learn first grade math skills:

http://www.ixl.com/

The following website goes along with our first grade math curriculum, Saxon math:

http://saxonpublishers.hmhco.com/en/onlineactivitiesk-3s.htm

This site is excellent in helping your students with the weekly spelling words.  Please use it often.  Also, turn up the volume -- once the spelling word is entered it is pronounced and the word is used in a sentence.

www.spellingcity.com