Here's the homework for the week...
1. Read for at least twenty minutes each night. By this point all the kids should be engaged in longer texts. This isn't to say it's not okay, from time-to-time, to pull a picture book or two off the shelf to read. Picture books are wonderful and should be read. However, their reading should not be random (pulling a short text off the shelf to "do" their reading). Each day, after about thirty minutes of silent reading in the classroom, I ask them to pack their books in their backpacks to read at home that night. So they should almost always have a chapter book in their bag they have been reading at school.
2. Send a YouTube link to a favorite song and email me the lyrics. We are using songs to revisit word families as well as study rhyme pattern. This will set us up for a future genre study of poetry. Each day a few of the kids will share their song. I will play the audio from the YouTube link they send while displaying the emailed lyrics on the SMARTboard for everyone to read and discuss. They can send the lyrics in the text of the email or as an attachment. Please help to make sure the song they select is appropriate. The share schedule for songs is...
Tuesday - Alex, Chloe, Dominique
Wednesday - Eli, Emma, Gracyn
Thursday, Greg, Isaiah, Jada
Friday - Joshua, Kaleel, Krissy
All others will share next week. However, I'd like all the kids to have their songs selected and submitted by email by this Friday. I'll save them in my email folder until it is their turn to share.
3. Publish writing drafts. Before break we wrapped up our study of upper-case cursive letters. During this study the kids were free to write choice pieces. They completed their rough drafts (at least two pages long) and will now revise, edit, and publish them. They revised and edited in class today with a partner. The published draft is due on Monday. They will bring these home tonight and ask you to look it over with them before they begin their final copies. Final copies may be written in cursive, manuscript, or typed- whichever is most comfortable for them. They can complete this at home but are also free to work on it in class during Explorations.
Possible...
Math assignment completion. This week we are working on using what we know about multiplication to find and check the solutions to division problems. Any work not completed in class will come home to be finished there. Many of the kids may wind up bringing nothing home in math. Others might have a few problems to complete. Please check with your child each afternoon.
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