Week of Feb 20-24

Homework suggestions for week of February 20th:

    

Language Arts:

*read daily for 10-15 minutes (Required)

*If you haven’t already, start a personal journal for your child to write in everyday. This can include experiences, things they learned at school that day, fiction stories...anything as long as they're writing!!

*Practice spelling words:

-past, blast, fast, shame, name, game, of, or, let, how

-nickname, fasten, hour, country, water

*Idea: Let your child make their own flashcards to study with!

Math:

*Unit 6- 1,4,5 Unit 9- 19,20

   New way to report completion of homework!  Please make sure you are signing your child's blue folder homework sheet when they complete the homework!

*we are starting our time unit this week. Have students practice telling time. By the end of our unit, they need to know how to tell time on the hour and half hour.

*They can also practice putting times in order. Example: Joey, you have soccer at 6:00, piano at 3:30, and homework time at 7:00. Which one is the earliest? Latest?

Science:

*reseach an ocean animal and write a non-fiction book about it.

*make a food chain!

*Make a picture of an ocean animal using their surroundings as camoflauge.

Week of Feb. 6 - 10

Homework suggestions for week of February 6:

    

Language Arts:

*read daily for 10-15 minutes (Required)

*If you haven’t already, start a personal journal for your child to write in everyday. This can include experiences, things they learned at school that day, fiction stories...anything as long as they're writing!!

*Practice spelling words

   Idea: make a word search or crossword at www.puzzlemaker.com

Math:

*Unit 5: 14, 15, 19, 22, 26-27

   New way to report completion of homework!  Please make sure you are signing your child's blue folder homework sheet when they complete the homework!

*Find different items in your home to measure the perimeter (measurement around the outside of the item) and area (measurement when covering the entire item).  Remember we are using nonstandard units in 1st grade.  Select your measuring tools based on the object.  For example, if you are measuring your kitchen table use pieces of paper or if your measuring a sticky note use cheerios.

Science:

*We are starting a month long study of the ocean!  Get ready to have your ear talked off.  :)  Your child will probably want to soak up as much information that they can over the next few weeks. 

-Check out some non-fiction books about ocean animals in the library, then write some facts about that animal

-Draw a diagram of the ocean zones (sunlight, twilight, dark, abyss) and have your child draw some animals that live in those zones