Your child will have homework Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday of each week. The reason for homework in first grade is to get your child in the habit of doing homework and studying. The homework should take 10-15 minutes to complete. Try to make this experience enjoyable for your child so they carry this skill over to future grades.
Your child will be coming home with a Weekend Journal every Thursday. Sometime during the weekend, please ask your son or daughter to make an entry in their journals. I would like them to write me a letter to tell me something about their weekends or how things are going for them in first grade. The Weekend Journal is due back on Monday. I will read each of their entries over the next week and will respond to them before the journals go back home again for the following weekend. I will start the Weekend Journals mid to late August. You will receive a letter about the Weekend Journals.
Within two weeks you will start seeing math facts listed in the newsletters. These math facts build on each other. We begin with plus zero facts then move through to plus nine facts by Christmas. After Christmas we will switch to subtraction. It is very important that your child is practicing these at home. They are tested on these at Christmas, then again at the end of the year. Your child will be very successful in math in years to come if he/she learns these basic facts.
And finally, every night your child should be reading 10-15 minutes. This will not be listed on in the homework; however, it is expected Monday through Friday.
