Skill Practice
Math
Throughout the year, your child will bring home addition and subtraction flash cards. Please practice the facts with your child. Even a few minutes helps! It is important for your child to know these facts since higher math is built on the ability to recall them quickly and automatically.
A fact sheet will also be sent home every day in the student's homework folder. The sheet will provide practice on the current set of facts we are working on, as well as review facts. This sheet should only take a minute or so to complete.
It is a Washington school-wide goal to have all students fluent with their math facts.
Reading
If word cards are brought home, they should be practiced. Some of them are tricky words like "where" and "were." Again, being automatic helps with fluency. It's hard to be fluent if you have to sound out every word!
Your child may also bring home a sheet with words and sentences that use a particular phonetic skill. It will be a phonics skill being introduced and practiced here at school. Please practice reading the words and sentences as this will help your child internalize the phonetic rule and help them transfer it to other words. During the week your child may also bring home a story to practice reading. It will be a story that has been read and practiced here at school. Rereading it at home will help build fluency and expression.
Spelling
A list of spelling words will come home in their homework folder every Monday. The test is on Friday. It would be beneficial if your child practices them at home as well as at school.
Tips for Completing Skill Practice
1. Try to do the work at the same time every night. Some students find it easier to do it right away. Others
do better completing it later, for example, after supper.
2. Have a work area. It may be at a desk or at the kitchen table.
3. Have the necessary supplies available. These may include pencils, erasers, or crayons.
4. As soon as any paper work is completed, have your child place it in their homework folder. Then have your
child put his/her folder in their book bag. This insures that it won't be lost or forgotten.
5. Turn off the TV and video games! It's easier to concentrate when there aren't distractions!
1. Try to do the work at the same time every night. Some students find it easier to do it right away. Others
do better completing it later, for example, after supper.
2. Have a work area. It may be at a desk or at the kitchen table.
3. Have the necessary supplies available. These may include pencils, erasers, or crayons.
4. As soon as any paper work is completed, have your child place it in their homework folder. Then have your
child put his/her folder in their book bag. This insures that it won't be lost or forgotten.
5. Turn off the TV and video games! It's easier to concentrate when there aren't distractions!