Homework Procedures
Students copy their homework assignments from the board into their planner as
soon as they enter the classroom in the morning. During the first month of
school, I check whether assignments were copied correctly and after that point
students are expected to do this independently with only occasional checks.
Children who have consistent difficulty with this task are partnered with
another child to help them.
Students who are absent have the number of days absent to make up any missed
work- all assignments will be in their absent student folder and all they need
to do is copy the missed homework assignments from a friend's planner.
Homework is due at 9:00. If a student does not have their homework, they will
move a step on the schoolwide discipline plan.
I check to see that all work has been completed and ask if there are any notes
from home (it is the child’s responsibility to inform me if there are and
carry the notes back and forth from school to home). We go over the
assignments as a class. (You may see this done in a correcting pen as your
child corrects the work, or sometimes the mistakes are simply erased and the
child puts the correct ones in their place).
General Homework Routine
Reading
Read for 30 minutes, and complete your reading record. DO NOT skip this! The
only way to become a better reader is to spend time READING. :-)
Writing
Monday: All Spelling Words in ABC order and the ones you missed on the pretest
5x each
Tuesday: Spelling Sentences
Wednesday: Vocabulary Paragraph
Math
Anywhere from one to ten problems per night.
Study for Tests
Spelling (study your words)
Reading (re-read the story in your reading book)
Math (review your homework pages from the week and be sure you understand
everything)
Other Work
If you do not finish classwork assignments by Thursday, you will need to
finish them at home so we can move on to the next skill in class.
You may have Social Studies or Science homework on nights with no writing
homework.
Plan to spend 30 minutes a night reading and 30 minutes doing written work. If
it is taking you longer than an hour to complete your written homework, please
let Mrs. McClure know.