QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

Questions and Answers regarding terms

Q1. What is HFW?

A1. HFW stands for High Frequency Words. These are words that are frequently used and words that the students will be learning. We will be reviewing kindergarten-level HFW's and learning first grade HFW's simultaneously.

Q2. What are book bags and when do we get them?

A2. Book bags are bags with a couple of leveled books that match individual student's independent and instructional reading levels. Students will receive these once I finish assessing the reading levels of all of the students in our classroom. Please note the reading assessment schedule on the announcements section and sign your child up for an assessment time slot!

Q3. What are math facts for math practice?

A3. Math facts for math practice can vary depending on grade level. For first grade, the students need to practice simple addition, subtraction, counting to 120, bundling groups of ones to tens, etc. It's important to make it casual and fun! Some ideas include using cards to add, using an addition song from youtube, rolling dice and adding numbers, using flash cards, etc.

Q4. What is an ABB color pattern?

A4. ABB pattern refers to using one color to represent one unique letter in a spelling exercise. For example, you can use a red marker for the letter A and green marker for the letter L in a spelling exercise for the word all. ALL

Q5. What is the school's food menu for snack and lunch?

A5. Click on this hyperlink Monthly school cafeteria menu 

Questions regarding homework

Q1: I logged in Zearn, lesson 14 is the most recent one. Do I need to start from there?

A1: I updated the lesson to lesson 21. Unfortunately, Zearn will only let me update to lesson 21 or 25. As a reminder, math homework is optional but I highly recommend it. You are welcome to have your child to start with lesson 21 and get to lesson 23. We have a mid-module assessment for math soon, so it may be a good idea to have your children at least look at the classwork we've been doing to review their math strategies and math thinking.

Q2: What does "Practice spelling words (word sort) mean?

A2: It means to look at the spelling word list and sort them by word families (i.e. __in, ___ick, __ill, and ___ip). Word sort is academic language that teachers use, I can see how that can be confusing!

Q3: My child did not receive a homework packet in their homework folder this week. Where is it

A3: If you did not specify that you need printed homework copies on the parent teacher survey or did not communicate with me sometime afterwards that you have changed your mind, your child did not receive a hard copy. You will find the scanned copy of the homework weekly on our class website, under the homework tab.

*As a side note: the Eureka math homework key and scanned reading logs are also located under the homework tab.

*Eureka math videos reviewing the Eureka math content are under the Parent Resources section of the Resources tab of the website.

Q4. What are math facts?

A4: Math facts are simple addition and subtraction within 20. You can use blocks, cards, dominos, and various items around home to play math games. You can also review math strategies taught in class such as math fingers, the counting on strategy with dots, and much more. I intend to post a video of me showing some examples of how to do this, but please be patient with me as I try to prioritize preparing for parent teacher conferences and our second book bags! 

Q5: I don't have the Zearn code for my child. Where is it?

A5: It is located in your child's blue Back to School Night folder, in the ziploc.

Q6: What do these instructions say?

A6: It says, "Have your child read these words aloud for you."