Mrs. Beth Rose – Homework Policy

Southern Huntingdon County School District > Mrs. Beth Rose – Homework Policy

Mrs. Beth Rose – Homework Policy

Homework Schedule

ELA:

I will send the Study Guide for the following week on Friday. There is no assigned homework over the weekend.  However, if you have a few minutes to start to work with the words it would benefit your child.

Phonics/Spelling:

  1. I will be sending spelling homework home each night Monday through Wednesday. This is not a long assignment but is meant to practice the skills and words to be ready for the test on Thursday.
  2. Sometimes (not usually more than once a week) I will also send home a brief phonics page.

Reading/Comprehension:

  1. Students will have a paragraph, story, or short book to read on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday evening. This is to practice the skills and vocabulary and to prepare for Friday’s test.

Vocabulary:

Students should practice reading the Vocabulary Sight Words EVERY evening. When I give the vocab list test the students should be able to read the words on sight without sounding out or taking (much of) a pause.

Math:

There may be homework on any given evening Monday through Thursday.

Social Studies and Science:

Occasionally your child will have a project assigned to be completed at home.

It is extremely important that your student completes the homework assignments each evening so that they retain the skill and are ready to use that skill as we move on in the future.

I try to NEVER give homework on a weekend.

I will however, send home a study guide for English Language Arts so that you can begin to become familiar with the Spelling and Vocab words.

I understand that things happen and occasionally homework does not get done.  As long as it is an incidental thing, I will simply help your student in the morning if I have time or have a tutor help them.  If there is not time for either of those then I will ask you to complete it the next evening if it would still be helpful.  I assign homework so that students get the practice they need to succeed. It is not busy work.  If it becomes a habit then I may have to have your student do the homework at recess. First graders can not be the sole person responsible for homework being done, so I do not feel this is completely fair!

Testing Schedule:

I am also including a testing schedule for you so you have some idea of what to expect each week.

English Language Arts:

  • Thursday: 1. Vocab List Test (reading the words to me from a list)

                   2. Spelling Test (student will write each word and then use the words in sentence dictation)

                   3. Grammar (using the skill of the week)

  • Friday:  Story Test – will assess the following:
  •  Comprehension of the week’s story
  • The week’s phonics skill
  • Vocabulary in sentence form

Math:

Normally, we will have a test on the chapter’s skill at mid-chapter point and end of the chapter.

We will also have a Fact Fluency test each chapter. (Students will have 60 seconds to answer addition or subtraction questions. The students should know the answer without using fingers or counters.)

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