First Grade Homework Expectations
This is just an overview of homework. More detailed information will come home with each new item.
Buggy Over Sight Words: Each child will be given an inventory test as to where their sight word reading ability is leveled. The 220 words are leveled from pre-primer through third grade. Each student is given a list of 5-7 words to practice reading. When the student can fluently read the words with zero mistakes, they move onto the next list. Students move up through the levels: caterpillar, ladybug, butterfly, dragonfly, bumblebee. If the student passes out of all 220 words, they are done for the year. Students must pass the first 133 words in order to successfully complete the first grade standard. If the 133 words are not passed by May, the student will not have passed that particular standard.
Spelling: The spelling program consists of the 133 pre-primer through first grade words. Five words will be sent home on Friday. The test will be the following Friday.
Books & Beads: After students are leveled, we will start the reading program Books and Beads. Info will be sent with the first checkout in September or early October.
Nightly 5 Homework: There are 5 components of this homework: Read to self, Read to someone, Listen to reading, Word work, and skill sharpeners. More explanation will come home with this the first time it is sent home. The recording sheet will come home on Mondays with the Monday Messenger, our weekly newsletter. Your child along with parental guidance will have the choice what activity(s) to do each night. The goal for each child is to complete one activity each night and color in the smiley face. Activities should take only 10-15 minutes a night. Each child with their family is expected to do something on a nightly basis. It is important to return the completed and signed Nightly Five sheet on Mondays.
There may be extra required homework, but families will be notified of that. Depending on your child's needs, there may be extra reading homework assigned by the Title teachers. This can be counted on Nightly Five. On most Messengers, there will be an optional activity of the week to complete with your child that can be counted as one of the nightly five activities. Math pages from the math book are never required homework, but may be completed for extra points in the students' bank. Homework (based on the return of the Nightly Five sheet) is calculated for a return rate percentage on report cards.
This is just an overview of homework. More detailed information will come home with each new item.
Buggy Over Sight Words: Each child will be given an inventory test as to where their sight word reading ability is leveled. The 220 words are leveled from pre-primer through third grade. Each student is given a list of 5-7 words to practice reading. When the student can fluently read the words with zero mistakes, they move onto the next list. Students move up through the levels: caterpillar, ladybug, butterfly, dragonfly, bumblebee. If the student passes out of all 220 words, they are done for the year. Students must pass the first 133 words in order to successfully complete the first grade standard. If the 133 words are not passed by May, the student will not have passed that particular standard.
Spelling: The spelling program consists of the 133 pre-primer through first grade words. Five words will be sent home on Friday. The test will be the following Friday.
Books & Beads: After students are leveled, we will start the reading program Books and Beads. Info will be sent with the first checkout in September or early October.
Nightly 5 Homework: There are 5 components of this homework: Read to self, Read to someone, Listen to reading, Word work, and skill sharpeners. More explanation will come home with this the first time it is sent home. The recording sheet will come home on Mondays with the Monday Messenger, our weekly newsletter. Your child along with parental guidance will have the choice what activity(s) to do each night. The goal for each child is to complete one activity each night and color in the smiley face. Activities should take only 10-15 minutes a night. Each child with their family is expected to do something on a nightly basis. It is important to return the completed and signed Nightly Five sheet on Mondays.
There may be extra required homework, but families will be notified of that. Depending on your child's needs, there may be extra reading homework assigned by the Title teachers. This can be counted on Nightly Five. On most Messengers, there will be an optional activity of the week to complete with your child that can be counted as one of the nightly five activities. Math pages from the math book are never required homework, but may be completed for extra points in the students' bank. Homework (based on the return of the Nightly Five sheet) is calculated for a return rate percentage on report cards.