Homework Schedule First Quarter

Monday through Thursday Night:

Read at least 20 minutes each night (see below for further details)

Phonics /math sheet (if not completed at school)

All sheets in the homework folder must be returned to school corrected or finished the following day.  Finished graded work will only come home in their brown folders on Friday.

Spelling (below is the nightly order)

Monday -Spelling - Share your new list of spelling words with your parents and put them in ABC order in the spelling book. Please keep this spelling book only for ABC order. The rest of the week spelling should be done on regular paper. They do not have to put all 20 words in ABC order. Second graders will put the first 10 words in ABC order and start over with 11 through 20 in ABC order.

Tuesday- Spelling - Second graders will write 10 complete sentences using 10 different spelling words of their choice.  Each sentence should contain at least five words.  Remember to underline the spelling words and start each sentence with a different word.

Wednesday-Spelling -  Write each spelling word three times. Study these words as you write them for your trial test. 

Thursday-Spelling - We will have a spelling trial test on Thursday morning. Any word missed should be written ten times and returned to school. The final spelling test is on Friday. If the student makes a 100 on the trial test, he/she will not be required to take the test on Friday.

Friday - No homework over the weekend unless they are behind in some of their work.  If this happens, it is in their blue homework folder to complete and return on Monday morning.

In reading, your child is to read every night. On Monday nights,  they should read their two new stories of the week from their reading textbook. If they know the stories well let them read from their library book, AR book, or another book on the other nights. On Thursday nights, they should review the textbook stories for their test on Friday morning. On some nights you as parents can read to your child instead of them reading.  Each student will have a reading record in his or her homework folder to be signed every night. The class also gets a letter toward earning a party if all the class has read at least four different nights. This is checked every Friday. The student earns a trip to the treasure chest when their reading sheet is completed. Students must pass one AR book every week. We may begin two a week before the quarter is gone depended on how well they do.  All students are allowed one failed test a month to be removed. We will run the AR report biweekly and include it with their Friday sheets. The students are getting excited over reading for prizes, climbing the reading tree, and striving to maintain the 85% club. In the library, Mrs. Gibson has the students on a racetrack and the 85% club on a trophy chart. Encourage your child to read and maintain the 85% club in the Winners’ Circle or the trophy chart. 

Thanks for helping your child in the learning process.