October+Homework

Homework Journals(yellow spiral)-

will go home every Monday. All assignments should be recorded in pencil in your homework journal. There is no homework assigned on Fridays or for the weekend but students should be reading for a minimum of 15 minutes per night, hopefully over the weekend as well. Homework journals should be returned every Friday so that I can review student progress. Homework should be done by the child. Parents may sit and assist but homework should be done in child's own writing to the best of their ability. I am looking to see if students are transferring knowledge and skills taught in the classroom to home. If parents over assist their children, their homework may mislead where I need to focus instruction with their child in the classroom. Homework Descriptions- **Word Hunt-** Students look in books, magazines, etc. to find additional words that fit the pattern of words they are studying that week. Students should sort the words they find (ex: short a sound, long a sound)

**Writing Sort-** Parent calls out a word and student practices writing word from memory. Student should be sorting words into different groups as they are writing and create a title for each group. (Ex: short a sound- cat, bad, pan; long a sound- came, rake, made). If any words are misspelled have student practice writing words again.

**Open Sort-** Students sort their spelling words any way they want to. However students should be able to categorize the groups in which they sorted the words for example: sped, shake, bland (have 2 consonants before 1st vowel) or: spank, bleed, brake (have 2 consonants before long vowel sound).

October Calendar-

Responding page of book sent home. || **Math**- Jim and Todd went to the store and spent 15 dollars on cereal and 18 dollars on fruit. How much money did they spend? || **Spelling**- writing sort || Responding page of book sent home. || Responding page of book sent home. || **Math**- Ben's dog chases cats. If he chases 10 cats up 4 different trees, how many cats did Ben's dog chase? Responding page of book sent home. ||
 * **Week** || **Monday** || **Tuesday** || **Wednesday** || **Thursday** ||
 * **1** || **Math**- Sam has some marbles and Jon has 20. Together they have 37 marbles. How many marbles does Sam have?
 * Enrichment**- Who has more marbles? How much more? || **Reading-**
 * **2** || **No School** || **Spelling**- Word Hunt || **Math**- Jack and Jill were racing up the hill. Jack got to the top of the hill in 11 minutes and Jill got to the top of the hill in 16 minutes. Who was faster? How do you know? || **Reading-**
 * **3** || **Math**- Hannah went to the park to pick flowers. She picked 8 flowers with 5 petals each. How many petals were there alltogether? || **Reading-**
 * Enrichment**- How else could the cats split up amongst the tree if there has to be the same amount of cats in each tree? || **Spelling**- writing sort ||
 * **4** || **Math**- Jason was returning library books. He had 20 books and Mrs. Wimmer told him to put them in stacks of 5. How many stacks of books will Jason need to make? || **Spelling**- Open Sort || **Math**- Pat and Dan want to buy ice cream at school with their allowance. They were given 25 dollars to share. They spent 12 dollars on stuffed animals, 2 dollars on candy, and donated 8 dollars to the red cross to help the fire victims. How much money will they have left over to buy ice cream?
 * Enrichment**-If ice cream cost 75 cents each. How many ice creams can they buy? || **Reading-**