Ms. Hunt’s Habitat.......Home Sweet Homework
Our daily D.O.T binders are sent home daily. Please check your child's binder each night to complete their homework and make sure to sign when done. Also, please make sure to take out the papers coming home. If you need to send in any lunch money or teacher notes put them in the zippered pouch in the very front. **Homework is a very important in kindergarten and a good habit to start practicing, so please work with your child each night**
Homework is given for our learners to review what they have learned at school, and to keep their knowledge fresh.....
Fluency Sheet: Please complete the fluency sheet each night with your child. We will remove the form every Thursday and replace it with a new fluency sheet each Monday. Make sure you have signed the bottom of the form!
Reading Log: Read with your child nightly and sign the Reading Log. The reading log has 25 spaces; therefore, we will give credit accordingly and replace when completed. Baggy books are changed on Tues. & Thurs. It's okay for students to read their book repeatedly!!
Math Worksheets: You will receive pages based on our weekly math curriculum. Please complete one page per night.
Homework Sight Words Fluency Sheet: Every week a new homework sheet will be added to your child's D.O.T. Binder. Please complete activities nightly! Every Friday is a Sight Word test. If your child does not know 50 sight words fluently, they are below grade level.
· Also note there will be additional homework attached for individual students as needed.
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Think about these tips when doing homework with your child.
Tip 1: Establish A Routine
What time will homework be completed each day? Where will your child sit to complete the assignments? Be consistent. After a while you will see your little one get out the homework and begin with you even having to remind him!
Tip 2: Encourage Your Child To Be An Independent Worker
Once you have helped your child to understand what the assignment is requesting him/her to do, let your learner complete the work without you right next to him/her! You will be happy you started this practice in Kindergarten. Believe me...it's no fun sitting with an 11th grader the whole time he/she is doing his/her Calculus homework. Walk away! If your child needs help, they'll ask!
Tip 3: Help Your Child Develop Organizational Skills
As I mentioned above, let your child be responsible for taking out the homework, delivering it to you to check, placing it back in the homework folder, and then placing the homework folder in his/her backpack. Also, having a box of supplies (pencils, crayons, colored pencils, glue sticks, and scissors) at the designated "homework" station will help your child stay on track.
These things can be done throughout the school year!!!
1. Math skills and concepts:
What day is it?
What is the date?
How many days are in a week?
How many days are in a year?
What are the days of the week?
What number comes before _? What numbers comes after __?
How high can you count?
Shapes are everywhere-- Do you see a triangle shape? Can you find a circle shape? Etc. (oval, circle, rectangle, triangle, rhombus, trapezoid, square, hexagon)
2. Ask me about letters- We will focused on all the letters of the alphabet (letter recognition, letter sounds, letter formation).
3. Time to Rhyme-- Help me to recognize rhyming pairs in literature when we are reading. Say a word and see if I can come up with a rhyming word.
4. Let's Count! Practice counting with me! (Practice counting by ones, fives, and tens.)
5. When reading together, ask me about...
Our daily D.O.T binders are sent home daily. Please check your child's binder each night to complete their homework and make sure to sign when done. Also, please make sure to take out the papers coming home. If you need to send in any lunch money or teacher notes put them in the zippered pouch in the very front. **Homework is a very important in kindergarten and a good habit to start practicing, so please work with your child each night**
Homework is given for our learners to review what they have learned at school, and to keep their knowledge fresh.....
Fluency Sheet: Please complete the fluency sheet each night with your child. We will remove the form every Thursday and replace it with a new fluency sheet each Monday. Make sure you have signed the bottom of the form!
Reading Log: Read with your child nightly and sign the Reading Log. The reading log has 25 spaces; therefore, we will give credit accordingly and replace when completed. Baggy books are changed on Tues. & Thurs. It's okay for students to read their book repeatedly!!
Math Worksheets: You will receive pages based on our weekly math curriculum. Please complete one page per night.
Homework Sight Words Fluency Sheet: Every week a new homework sheet will be added to your child's D.O.T. Binder. Please complete activities nightly! Every Friday is a Sight Word test. If your child does not know 50 sight words fluently, they are below grade level.
· Also note there will be additional homework attached for individual students as needed.
·
Think about these tips when doing homework with your child.
Tip 1: Establish A Routine
What time will homework be completed each day? Where will your child sit to complete the assignments? Be consistent. After a while you will see your little one get out the homework and begin with you even having to remind him!
Tip 2: Encourage Your Child To Be An Independent Worker
Once you have helped your child to understand what the assignment is requesting him/her to do, let your learner complete the work without you right next to him/her! You will be happy you started this practice in Kindergarten. Believe me...it's no fun sitting with an 11th grader the whole time he/she is doing his/her Calculus homework. Walk away! If your child needs help, they'll ask!
Tip 3: Help Your Child Develop Organizational Skills
As I mentioned above, let your child be responsible for taking out the homework, delivering it to you to check, placing it back in the homework folder, and then placing the homework folder in his/her backpack. Also, having a box of supplies (pencils, crayons, colored pencils, glue sticks, and scissors) at the designated "homework" station will help your child stay on track.
These things can be done throughout the school year!!!
1. Math skills and concepts:
What day is it?
What is the date?
How many days are in a week?
How many days are in a year?
What are the days of the week?
What number comes before _? What numbers comes after __?
How high can you count?
Shapes are everywhere-- Do you see a triangle shape? Can you find a circle shape? Etc. (oval, circle, rectangle, triangle, rhombus, trapezoid, square, hexagon)
2. Ask me about letters- We will focused on all the letters of the alphabet (letter recognition, letter sounds, letter formation).
3. Time to Rhyme-- Help me to recognize rhyming pairs in literature when we are reading. Say a word and see if I can come up with a rhyming word.
4. Let's Count! Practice counting with me! (Practice counting by ones, fives, and tens.)
5. When reading together, ask me about...
- Front of the book
- Back of the book,
- Title
- Where do we begin reading
- Reading direction
- The Characters & The Setting
- Is this book fiction or nonfiction?