Homework

Grade One Homework.

**__  Homework for the week of May 5- May 8    __** __ Thursday night __ -Pack homework. __ Tuesday night __ -Pack library book. (Last week’s) __ Nightly __ -Read poem, read take-home book and practice sight words and sound teams. __Literacy__-Congratulations to those who took part in the making words challenge. The families that found the most words found…….77 and 131!! -We have started a unit on Fairy Tales. -We are working on expanding our true stories by brainstorming a list of events to talk about and turning those events into an organized story. We use this same process when writing a fiction story. __Math__- Congratulations to the math challenge- takers too-well done! -We have been continuing to work with numbers to 100. We have found patterns on the 100 chart to help with counting. Filling in the 100 chart for homework will help illustrate these patterns. Be sure to talk about them with your child. The first digits in the rows are the same; the second digits go in order. The first digits in the columns go in order the second digits are all the same. -Use the chart to get them to quickly locate a number you call out. Point to a number and have them tell it to you. Ask them what comes before, after and between. -We are also using counters to group in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s to make it easier to count large sets. Please practice skip counting to 20 by 2’s and to 100 by 5’s and 10’s. -When we made groups of tens we noticed a pattern too. Practice questions like-what number is 4 sets of 10 and 6 ones? How many groups of tens and ones in the number 53? Friday, May 8-Mother’s Day draw Monday, May 11-Community and School meeting at 7:00 Friday, May 15-book orders due Tuesday, May 19-PSSC meeting at 7:00 Wednesday, May 20 and Thursday, May 21-book sale at school Friday, May 29-movie night at school Monday, May 18-no school-Victoria Day In order to receive an Appropriate Development in reading, in June, they must be reading independently at level H.