Homework: September 2 - 9

Tuesday, 9/2
Read for at least twenty minutes
Begin or finish your cursive sheet - due Thursday
Begin or finish your Reading Goals sheet with a parent (more about that below) - due Thursday

Wednesday, 9/3
Read for at least twenty minutes
Finish your cursive sheet - due tomorrow
Finish your Reading Goals sheet with a parent (more about that below) - due tomorrow

Thursday, 9/4
Read for at least twenty minutes
Begin your Job Application  - due Monday

Weekend
Read for at least twenty minutes each day
Finish your Job Application - due Monday

Assignment Information
Reading Goals Sheet - The kids recently started thinking about reading goals for themselves. We broke these into three categories. The first category was reading behaviors. This might be increasing the amount of reading in a day, reading in a silent spot if you usually find yourself reading with a lot of distractions, reading pages or chapters rather than a certain number of minutes ("Mom, are my twenty minutes over yet?!"), etc. The second category was reading skills. I asked the kids if they ever encounter something during reading that confuses them (a word, a passage, a chapter, and so on). If so, I suggested they might want to work this year to develop strategies for dealing with these little hiccups in their reading. The third category was reading interests. These goals are meant to identify books, series, authors, or genres they would like to read but haven't yet. It might be because they've been stuck in a rut, reading the same things over and again. Or it might be a book that still feels a little too hard for them but one they'd like to see themselves reading later in the school year.

The kids did their best to set goals for themselves in each of these categories in class. Tonight they'll bring these home to you and ask if you have any goals for them that might fit in one or more of these categories. You can also help them revise any of the goals they set for themselves that need better focus or purpose.

I'll be conferencing with each of the kids over the next few weeks to talk about their goals with them. I may even add a goal or two to their sheet as well. This will help define the work each of them would like to do as a class as well as one-on-one with me and Mrs. Shealy, our instructional assistant.

Job Application - It's time for class jobs! Fill out the application letting me know which jobs you want and making a case for why I should consider you for this task. Remember that doing your very best work will greatly increase your chance of landing one of your top choices!