Homework in Class III
Your daughters will learn important organizational and time management skills this year.
The girls are assigned homework daily. As part of the routine, they record their assignments and classroom reminders or announcements in their homework planner which is stored inside a three ring binder. It is crucial that these binders travel to and from school with them each day.
Please encourage your daughter to pack her backpack in the evening when she has finished her homework, using her planner as a reference. This way, she can feel confident that she is returning to school each day with all her assignments completed.
Reading Homework
- Read for at least thirty minutes nightly, including weekend nights. Part of this reading time can include you! Read aloud to your daughters in order to expose them to literature above their independent reading level.
- Additional reading homework will be assigned by your daughter’s reading teacher.
Math Homework
- Homework is assigned on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Your daughter should spend no more than fifteen minutes on her math homework.
- Your daughter should regularly review addition facts, subtraction facts, and, when the time comes, multiplication facts and division facts to maintain fluency and promote easy recall.
English Homework
- When assigned, this will correspond to the week’s language arts lessons.
Tips to Support Your Daughter’s Homework Habits
- You can help your daughter by setting up a regular time and place for her to complete homework. It is helpful to find a quiet place without distractions; this establishes good study habits.
- Your daughter should check off the corresponding box in homework planner as she completes each assignment. She should pack each assignment in her backpack immediately upon completion. These are two strategies we have introduced in the classroom.
- If your daughter asks for help with homework, start by encouraging her to re-read the directions aloud and then rephrase them in her own words.
- Please do not correct your daughter’s homework. Homework helps your daughter’s teachers to gauge her understanding of a concept covered in class.
- Encourage your daughter to take pride in her work! Notice the effort she puts in rather than whether or not her answers are correct. Ask her to tell you about the work she is most proud of each night.
- If your daughter is having difficulty with assignments or seems to be spending too much time on her homework, please encourage her to speak to her teachers first thing the following morning. She can write out any questions on a “post-it” note ahead of time to help her remember and communicate her area of confusion.
Troubleshooting
- If your daughter is absent, her homework should be picked up at the front desk after the third grade dismissal time (3:10 PM). If she is ill, please note that our priority is her wellness, and she will be have the opportunity to make up missed assignments when she returns to school.
- If your daughter has forgotten a workbook or assignment at school, she has several options (all of which are preferable to leaving an assignment incomplete):
- She may return to her classroom in the afternoon to retrieve missing items.
- She may contact a classmate who may be able to send a copy of the assignment to her.
- She may return to school early the next morning, pick up her missing work, and complete it in the lobby before 8:00 AM.