Some of the students in our class have been expressing a strong interest in homework- begging for it in fact!  I will never send mandatory homework, but since there is interest I will start sending some of the things we work on in class for extra practice at home if children are interested.  The interest seems to be mostly in worksheet kinds of things, so this is what I will try to send.  If your child does the work and would like to bring it back to me any time, I'd love to see it.  Today I have sent home a couple of math pages.  The only materials needed are dice or a deck of cards.  We have done similar things during math stations so the tasks should be familiar.  While we have done a lot of one more, one less work, the + and - symbols are still relatively new, so children may need reminders about these.  Other great things to work on at home are counting from 0-100, and counting starting from any number, say beginning at 23, or 47.  Practicing naming numbers one more and one less than a given number is also a great activity.  We do this at school by rolling a die, saying the number, and quickly saying what comes just before or just after.  This gets more challenging with many sided die.

We have completed our science unit on living and non-living things and today we began our next unit on rocks.  I have asked everyone to bring in a rock by early next week.  Any rock works!