GENERAL HOMEWORK INFORMATION
Please be sure your child completes all assigned homework. This is one step
families can take to help build strong study skills at home. Parents are
encouraged to support their children's efforts, however, please
be sure your child does the work!
READING (daily)
Students are expected to read for 20 minutes a day, in addition to our other
homework. The titles should be recorded in your child's agenda.
SPELLING HOMEWORK (weekly)
Each Friday, your child will bring his/her agenda home with
either the Cactus List or the Longhorn List. This will be the list he/she
will be tested on the following Friday. There will be 10 spelling words.
Both spelling lists will also be located in the weekly newsletter. Your child
will have a spelling spiral that he/she will write 3 spelling activities for
the week and bring backto show me on Friday. These sprials will stay at home
during the week.
40 Ways to Practice Your Spelling Words
1. ABC order- Write your words in alphabetical order.
2. Rainbow Words - Write your words in three colors
3. Backwards Words- Write your words forwards, then backwards.
4. Silly sentences -Use all your words in ten sentences
5. Picture words - Draw a picture and write your words in the picture.
6. Words without Vowels - Write your words replacing all vowels with a
line.
7. Words without Consonants - Same as above but replace consonants with
lines.
8. Story words - Write a short story using all your words.
9. Scrambled words -Write your words then write them again with the
letters mixed up.
10. Word search I -Make a word search with a friend, then trade and
solve.
11. Word search II - Complete a word pre-made search.
12. Crossword - Complete a pre-made crossword puzzle.
13. Surround words - Write your words on graph paper and outline in
colors.
14. Ransom words - Write your words by cutting out letters in a
newspaper or magazine and glue them on a paper.
15. Pyramid Words - Write your words adding or subtracting one letter at
a time. The result will be a pyramid shape of words.
16. Words-in-words - Write your word and then write at least 2 words
made from each.
17. Delicious words - Write your words in whipped cream, peanut butter,
or anything you can eat! Bring in a note from a parent!
18. Good Clean Words -Write your words in shaving cream on a counter or
some other surface that can be cleaned safely.
19. Dirty Words - Write your words in mud or sand.
20. Pasta Words - Write your words by arranging alphabet pasta or
Alphabits. Glue on paper or bring me a note from a parent and do on
a table or counter at home.
21. Reversed words - Write your words in ABC order -backwards!
22. 3D words - Use modeling clay rolled thinly to make your words. Bring
a note if done at home.
23. Create an activity - Can you think of a fun way to do your spelling
activities? Try it out!
24. Puzzle words - Use a blank puzzle form. Write your words on the
form, making sure that the words cross over the pieces. Then cut
them out (color if you wish) and put them in a baggie with your name
on it. When you and a friend have completed your puzzles, trade and
put them back together.
25. Magazine words - Use an old magazine or newspaper and find your
word. Cut it out and glue it on paper.
26. Cheer your words - Pretend you are a cheerleader and call out your
words! (We will do this as a group activity.) Sometimes you'll yell,
sometimes you'll whisper! If you want to do this at home with a
parent, get them to send me a note that you've done it.
27. Sound Words - Use a tape recorder and record your words and their
spelling. Then listen to your tape, checking to see that you spelled
all the words correctly.
28. X Words - Write two words having one common letter so they criss-
cross.
29. Other Handed - If you are right-handed, write with your left, or
vice versa.
30. Choo-Choo Words - Write the entire list end-to-end as one long word,
using different colors of crayon or ink for different words.
31. Silly String - With a long length of string, "write" words in
cursive, using the string to shape the letters.
32. Backwriting - Using your finger, draw each letter on a partners'
back, having the partner say the word when completed.
33. Telephone Words - Translate your words into numbers from a telephone
keypad.
34. Flashwriting - In a darkened room, use a flashlight to draw letters
in the air.
35. Newspaper Words - Search a newspaper page from top to bottom,
circling each letter of a word as you find it.
36. 30 Second Words - Write a TV commercial using all the words from
your list.
37. Popsicles - Make words using popsicle sticks.
38. Secret Agent Words - Number the alphabet from 1 to 26, then convert
your words to a number code.
39. Etch-A-Word - Use an Etch-A-Sketch to write your words.
40. Morse Code - Convert your words to Morse Code
MATH FLASHBACK HOMEWORK (weekly)
Math Flashback Homework will be sent home each Friday.
It will contain small daily assignments. Please have your child complete
these assignments nightly, rather than all at once. These assignments are
part of a campus-wide initiative to improve the retention of math concepts
previously taught. They are designed to serve as a review. Please allow
your child to complete these assignments independently, although you may
need to read the directions.
*Math Flashback Homework will be due on Friday
