 Homework Information
2006 - 2007
Welcome or welcome back to project UpLift. This is the general information
that will guide you and your child(ren) throughout homework experiences. This schedule
will begin on Monday, August 21, 2006. If you have any questions about this or any other homework information at any time,
please feel free to call any of the UpLift teachers.
General Guidelines
Your child is receiving a folder that should travel back and forth between home and school
every morning and evening. We call this folder the "Coach Folder" (like a stagecoach). This folder
will contain your child's WEB Reading sheet, other homework assignments, graded work and any other communication that we
have for you. Please help your child to take items (finished work, notes, etc.) out
of this folder each night so that it can be maintained easily. Each morning your child should then return
his/her homework and the WEB sheet with the recorded nightly reading. This is also the best place
for you to send information to us because it is checked every day.
Children should be spending an average of 15 minutes a night on WEB reading, 15 minutes
writing in their writing notebook, and
10 minutes on a nightly math sheet. This practice is approximately 40 minutes a night total.
This practice work is very important especially for beginning readers and writers. If the
assignments are not completed in the 40 minutes, please just send a note to let us know that your
child did his/her Personal Best and this was the amount of work that was accomplished.
Children need to be supported in the process by being given a space that is conducive to his/her homework activities.
Children often find success with homework when there is a specific, scheduled time that they work on it each afternoon, night or morning.
Daily Responsibilities
WEB Reading
15 minutes of the homework period each night should be spent on WEB Reading. WEB stands
for Wonderfully Exciting Books. Your child may choose any book for this activity. She/he should then record the
author and title of the book and the pages read. An adult then needs to initial the form. A WEB Reading sheet is enclosed
to begin this activity. If your child is
a "Rookie" (beginning) reader, this time may include your reading to your child. For any child, this time
may be spent by your child reading to you, shared reading between the two or three of you, or your
child doing silent reading.
Writing
Students will write in their Writer's Notebooks for 15 minutes each evening. Rookies
may choose to write on paper of their choice if they don't have a Notebook. All students
will write about personal experiences, thoughts, feelings, observations. Vets will be
expected to fill up a minimum of 3/4's of a page. Rookies will be expected to draw and add words or
sentences as best they can.
Please do not correct writing. The purpose is to just get the students in the
habit of writing and to get their thoughts down as quickly as possible without stopping to worry
about spelling or punctuation. Revising and Editing will come later if the students choose to
publish something from their Notebooks.
*Occasionally there will be a substitute assignment that will take the place
of the Writing Notebook assignment.
Math
Daily Math practice will support your child's math skills. Look for
the Homelink page nightly. Your child should spend 10 minutes using this page to
practice what they have been working on in their math class.
Updated August 18,2006
by J.K. White
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