New Homework

Today you will find a new kind of homework.  For each letter of the alphabet, we have a homework page where students have to look at a picture and then stretch out and write the sounds that spell that picture.  The letter of the day will be used somewhere (not always at the beginning) in the word.  Soon, addition and subtraction will be included on the math side of the homework.

RHYMING

The homework also has a quick rhyming review.  Recognizing/Making rhyming pairs has been a difficult skill in my classroom this year.  We practice it every day, but some students are not picking it up as quickly as others.  If you notice that your child struggles a bit with the rhyming portion of the homework from time to time (and especially if he/she earned a NI grade on their report card- coming home Friday), please be sure to start practicing.  In the car is a great place to practice as we are all busy and on the go throughout the week.  Look in and out of the car and you can take turns playing a little rhyming game: "I see something that rhymes with duck.  Do you see it?  It's a...."   "......TRUCK!  "I see something that rhymes with meat.  Do you see it?  It's a......" "....SEAT!"  "I see something that rhymes with flop.  Do you see it?  It is.....".....STOP!  Rhyming is an important/useful skill for reading and writing.  If your student can read/write hop, then he/she should be able to trade out the first letter/sound and read/write cop, top, bop, mop, and pop without much additional effort ONCE they hear and understand rhyming.

For our unit, we studied Apes today.  See if your child can tell you the easiest way to tell a monkey from an ape.  See if your child can name the three kinds of apes pictured below: