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homework
By jem

I give homework from the 2nd week on. sometimes it is written, but not all the time. Every Monday, they get a "letter bag" to take home and fill with items beginning with the letter of the week. You can do this for many things..
rhyming words.. shaped items...numbers or things found in a certain quanity for example. They also glue letters and pictures to a page on Tuesday. I encourage them to find letters in many fonts, sizes, styles and both upper and lower case. After the first six weeks, we send home leveled readers for students to read and bring back to read to me. Parents sign off on this so we know

the reading was done at home. And also so we don't give them the same book(..kept in a manila envelope or ziploc bag...) Sometimes homework is a family project, such as making trash monsters during our Earth Awareness/Recycling week. Or dressing up A Santa Claus cut out for his vacation after the holidays! They may be asked to do things such as ..count how many doors are in your house and write the number(..or a sentence if appropriate.) We are fixing to be taking home library books and so I am going to have them draw or write about what they read and then they will tell about their "book reports" on library day.