Homework+and+Happenings

Homework and Happenings ] HOMEWORK Homework is sent home weekly. A Homework and Happenings sheet accompanies the homework. The H & H (Homework & Happenings) details the expected homework and any upcoming event. Next year your child will be using a planner and writing down homework and upcoming events. The H & H is getting them ready for the planner. Math, Reading, and Writing get better by doing math, reading, and writing on a daily basis. The expectation is that your child will read daily. Reading can take many forms, such as reading to your child, with your child, and finally your child reading to you. To be the best reader a child must know their letters and sounds automatically (see Reading for more information). In writing the child must know how to write letters the most efficiently and write the letters automatically. Letters are written from the top line down (I refer to the top line as the sky, dotted line as the plane line, bottom line as the grass, and the worm space below the grass). Mathematical skills only get better by knowing numbers and counting, math facts automatically, constant practice with time, counting coins, place value, measurement I have included a Homework & Happenings template. [|2011.doc]

Students will have and be responsible for their Planner next year. In the planner each student will record their homework, important upcoming events, the upcoming special, upcoming projects, field trips, spelling words, etc. Homework and Happenings get first graders ready for the Planner for next year. Each student records important information and is expected to show their planner to their parents and the parents sign the planner. Students show the Homework & Happenings to their parents after they have recorded homework and important events and their parents sign it.