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Homework for the week of Jan.30

Sunday night-Pack library books. 

Nightly-Read good- fit book/Raz Kids

              Practice sight words and sound teams.

Reading:

·        To help improve fluency when reading, we are reviewing that when a word has two of the same consonants together they blend to make one sound. For example, fall, buzz, etc.

·        Continue to have your child tune-in to interesting words in the books that he/she is reading to help Expand Vocabulary!

Sound Team: “oi/oy” (please highlight these on your sound team sheet)

·        oi and oy make the sound as in toy and boil

·        We usually see the oi sound team in the middle of words, and the oy sound team on the end of words.

·        Practice reading the following words: boil, boy, joy, coin, join, spoil

Sight Words:  should, would, could , don’t (please highlight these on your sight word sheet)     (add “should” to the bottom of the list)

Writing:

·        We worked on adding more interesting detail to our stories. Students’ writing should be like a hamburger. We need an introduction (our top bun) which tells our reader what our story is about, the patty and toppings are all of our “juicy details” in the middle, and the bottom bun is our conclusion/ending. If any part of our “hamburger” is missing, the whole thing will fall apart!

·        We are learning how to make our writing more fluent and detailed by using Sentence Stretchers (connecting words) such as because, and, with, and but. For example, the sentence “I made cookies.” can be stretched using the word “with” – “I made cookies with chocolate frosting and sprinkles”. 

  Math: Addition

We will continue working on addition facts with sums to 12. We have worked with counters and number lines so students can really see how addition works. We are also beginning to use strategies to solve addition problems in our head, such as “counting-on” from the greater number. You can reinforce the concepts we are covering at school.

·         Counters can be used to show that order in addition does not matter - the answer will stay the same (one part + one part = is the whole thing). It does not matter which part you start with. For example, 4 + 3 is the same as 3 + 4.

·         Order in addition doesn’t matter, however, it is easiest to start with the “bigger part” and count-on. For example, for 3+9 start with the part that has more and count on (“9...10, 11, 12”). Practice asking a few addition questions each night. Your child may find it helpful to hold up however many fingers they are counting-on. For example, for 6+3 simply count-on from 6 while holding up 3 fingers (“6…7, 8, 9” - count-on using the 3 fingers that are up!). When you practice with your child, make sure they always start with the greatest number first and count-on.

·         Practice adding zero, one and two. Students should know these really quickly, as we have done a lot of practice with “What is 1 more than 8?” etc.