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Reading
well is a key to success in school. I would like to invite you to help me to
help your child become a better reader. Each Monday your child will have a short
reading homework assignment that asks you to listen to him or her read out
loud and answer a couple of questions.
Included in the instructions will be a hint, or tip, that you can use to
help your child with the assignment. Please sign the bottom of each assignment
indicating that you did listen to your child read out loud and assisted him or
her with the questions. This is
meant to be a team effort among students and parents. The assignment is due on Thursday.
Spelling activities will be a follow up to word activities done in class. They are due onThursday.
Please Note * Reading Comprehension and Spelling Homework will be on alternating weeks. (i.e., one week of Reading Comp. and the next week Spelling..)
Each
night your child should be reading for 15-20 minutes.
The reading comprehension activity on Monday night counts as the reading
for that night. Many children have
their own books they enjoy reading at home on a nightly basis and I encourage
them to continue to do so. There
will not be a recording log to keep track of this.
Each student has a multiplication log that should be kept in the agenda each day. This year, your child should be working on learning the multiplication facts, if they are not already known. Our school’s Plan For Improvement includes mastery of these facts at the Grade 4 and 5 levels. The zero, one, two, five and ten times tables should be recalled quickly by now. That just leaves 21 facts to learn. Please spend 10 minutes each night on these if there isn’t quick recall and record in the Log. We will be doing timed quizzes to check their progress with this outcome.
millerj23@staff.ednet.ns.ca email
Yours in teaching,