Students need to have their planner signed each night to receive morning preparation check points. Please do not sign if there is no homework filled in.
General nightly homework includes:
30 reading
Math homework sheet to review math lesson of day (students should bring home spiral notebook each day for help with hw)- should take no more than 30 min.
Spelling/vocabulary practice 5 mins. (tests every Fri. - we will review in class too)
Wonders story of the week (tests every Fri. - we will review in class too)
Any work that is not finished in class is also homework
Binder Organization
Planner needs to be in front of the binder I would like the planner taken home each day inside the binder. That way you can see the binder too.
Planner signed every night I do a prep-check with the planner every day. If it is blank please do NOT sign it! I tell the students it is like signing a blank check. It won't help them organize if they come in and fill it in the next morning.
School schedule in front of tabs. We have the finalized schedule printed and given out to students so they can begin to keep track of their schedule. It will help plan daily assignment deadlines too
Tabs Students need to put HOMEWORK, MATH, LANG. ARTS (reading/writing), SCIENCE, SOCIAL STUDIES on tabs in their binders
Alternative to just having tabs You can purchase tabbed folders that fit into the binder. Students still need to put names on tabs but this is an alternative to having a binder.
Homework Students need to have a separate "space" for homework. Ideally one slot in their binder would work best. I do not want separate "folders" outside of the binder anymore. This confuses many of them.
Homework folder labeled This is another idea for homework papers. It is still inside the binder but not part of the tabs. One side can be labelled "TO DO" the other side can be labelled "FINISHED.
Single Subject spiral notebooks They need to be single subject for organization- spiral for Reading, Writing, Math (2), Social Studies A composition notebook that is sewn down the middle needs to be for science. Labeled Spiral notebooks need to be labelled with student's name and subject. Currently we have one for math(2nd part of year we use 2nd math), one for language arts (reading/writing), one for social studies, and the composition notebook for science.