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Homework Policy Expect your child to have between 25-45 minutes of homework every night. Your child will be given homework every night of the school week. At the beginning of the year your child’s homework will be practicing the phonograms we are reviewing in class. Once we start learning spelling words their homework will normally involve practicing the new spelling words that they learned in class and writing the ones they missed on their spelling test five times for extra practice. Your child will learn approximately six phonograms or spelling words per day and they will be tested on 18 words on their daily spelling test. Depending on how the students are doing the number might be slightly lower or higher. The homework that your child is given for Riggs words will stay consistent from week to week throughout the year, unless I note otherwise in their homework folder. Around Winter Break or soon afterwards your child will also start writing sentences for homework using the spelling words they have learned. There will be nightly math homework sent home too. On occasion there may be other things that your child will need to work on at home when we have big projects going on in class. My hope is that you would also spend 15 minutes per day reading out loud to your child or having them read to you as the year goes on. When reading out loud to your children you are setting a great example and being a role model for them of what a good reader sounds like. Soon into the school year your student will be bringing home a timed fluency read to practice. They will get pulled at least once a week to complete this read and the more they practice the more fluent they get the sooner they will pass on to the next passage. This reading counts toward their nightly reading. If your child is becoming frustrated, break up the work and don’t have him/her complete it all in one sitting. I don’t want homework to become a struggle for parents and children at home. I want it to be an extension of what we are learning in class and a way for children to easily practice what they have learned in school at home. Please do not do homework for your child or give them too much assistance. If they don’t understand something I would be more then happy to clear up the issue with them the following morning at school. Students who don’t have their homework completed the next day at school will complete it during recess and/or lunch time. The completion of homework will affect their grade at the end of each trimester.
Unfinished Work Every Thursday students and I will go through their unfinished work folders. Important class work and projects that have not been finished throughout the week will go home in their Homework folder Thursday and is expected to be returned the following Monday. If this seems to be a consistent issue I will call a meeting with parents and the student in order to make a plan and find a solution to the consistent incompletion of class work.
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