| In general, our classroom policy is that if you have not
finished your daily work in class, then it is brought home for
completion. Some assignments are "in-class" assignments and need to
be completed on time within the classroom. In the case of visual
arts assignments, we have our lesson and begin our project on a day
1 and it is due the following day 1. Students are welcome to bring
their artwork home and complete it during this week between classes.
A rule of thumb to help you decide how much homework your child
should be doing, is to take your child's grade and multiply it by 10
minutes. For grade four this would be 40 minutes each weekday
evening. Included in this 40 minutes is our 20 minutes of nightly
reading. After that, any work not completed in class should be
finished. If your child does not have any work from class I
recommend breaking this time down into the following activities...
- 20 minutes of nightly reading
- 10 minutes of math fact practice
(adding/subtracting/multiplying/dividing)
- 10 minutes of recorder practice and/or review of our spelling
words
For other ideas you can always use the Home School Connection box
from our classroom newsletter.
Helping with Spelling
Our spelling program runs as
follows...
- each spelling group (we have 4) studies a list of 10 words for 2
weeks.
- words include homonyms (e.g. wear, where), words from our units of
study and words that we are having
trouble with in daily writing.
- students complete activities and visit centres to help them learn
their words.
- a test takes place on the Thursday or Friday of the second week.
- all of our spelling lists are recorded in our agendas so that
parents may assist with study.
Interested in including additional
spelling words for your child to study? Try using the
Dolch word
list. This includes the
220 most frequently found words in books that children read. |
