PYLUSD supports 50 minutes of homework nightly plus 20 minutes of silent reading. Time is given in class to work on homework. A student's productivity can determine how much work will need to be completed at home. Scholar pages are given weekly to reinforce language arts lessons in spelling, vocabulary, and grammar.
Homework is not used for letter grades, only as an indicator for a child's effort score.
All homework and classwork is graded and recorded in Aeries. If an assignment is in your red Thursday Folder without a grade, comment, or stamp, send it back! Have your child turn in the page to the white tray. Late work is always accepted.
Please have parent and child keep an eye on their grades through the Aeries Portal.
Understand too that my end goal for the semester is a balanced collection of grades, which is not evident when looking at it each week. Absences may turn in work a week later. Please give grace for grading late work as new assignments will have a higher priority.
Letter Grades:
Reading- 20% Vocabulary test 20% Classwork 60% Comprehension quiz or test (open notes for Trimester 1 and 2)
Writing- 25% Dictation Sentences/Spelling Test 25% Grammar Quiz (open notes for T1 & T2) 50% Essay
Math- 40% Quiz (open note) 60% Unit Test
Science- scores are not weighted, lab notes typically count for 2/3 of the grade
Social Studies- projects, classwork, and tests are assigned point values
Effort scores: Excellent Very Good Satisfactory Needs Improvement
Reading - number of Bookakuchas for the trimester, number of iReady lessons completed, percent in scholar pages
Math - percentage of homework complete extra credit completed for the Excellent
Science - percent of lab notes completed