Awards/Homework

Good morning!

I just wanted to send out a reminder email about awards tomorrow. If your child received a yellow slip stapled to their report card, they will be receiving an award tomorrow. Awards will be held in the gym and begin at 12:30. You may check your child out after the awards from the classroom.

Starting this week I will begin collecting the spelling homework from your child. I will be adding this to their spelling grade starting this second quarter. If your child has an off day when we are testing, I am hoping that the homework grade will help offset their test grade. Everyone should have a spelling notebook in their OWL Binder with a tic-tac-toe grid stapled to it. If you are missing any of these items, please let me know and I will make sure they have them in there.

Students also have the sight word lists in their binder. Starting this quarter we will begin testing with these words and moving through the lists. These will NOT be graded. This is to keep moving forward with first grade fluency since they will see these words quite frequently in the stories that we read. I will send home a note every Friday stating which list your child is on after we test. Again, this is NOT graded. I will leave the lists in their binder for your information. This is not an added thing to the homework. We will work heavily with these words in the classroom. If you would like to work with your child at home to move them faster through the lists, you may do so at your discretion.

Homework this second quarter will consist of the packet, spelling, and fluency. Some students will be getting a new fluency packet so please look through these to see if you are working on a different one. These will also begin to be collected starting next week.

I hope this has answered any questions you have regarding homework this new quarter.

Mrs. Atkisson