Homework


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**T** his year students will receive their homework on __FRIDAY__. **HW** should be returned to Mrs. Woods by the following __FRIDAY__. **A** ll students should read for at least 30 minutes,

**AND...**

 practice addition, subtraction, multiplication & division facts each night.

** WHY LEARN MATH FACTS? **  According to the National Mathematics Advisory Panel, kids who don’t know their basic math facts by 4th grade will continue to struggle until they learn them. Practice allows students to achieve automaticity of basic skills (the fast, accurate and effortless processing of content information,) which frees up working memory for more complex aspects of problem solving.

"W hy Can't I Skip My twenty Minutes of Reading Tonight?" Student A reads 20 minutes five nights of every week. Student B reads only 4 minutes a night...or not at all!

Step 1: Multiply minutes a night x 5 each week.

Student A reads 20 minutes x 5 times a week = 100 min. Student B reads 4 minutes x 5 times a week = 20 min.

Step 2: Multiply minutes a week x 4 weeks each month. Student A reads 400 minutes a month. Student B reads 80 minutes a month.

Step 3: Multiply minutes a month x 9 months a school year. Student A reads 3600 minutes a school year. Student B reads 720 minutes a school year.

Student A practices reading the equivalent of ten whole school days a year. Student B gets the equivalent of only two school days of reading practice.

By the end of 6th grade, if Student A and Student B maintain these same reading habits, Student A will have read the equivalent of 60 whole school days. Student B will have read the equivalent of only 12 days.

 One would expect the gap of information retained will have widened considerably and so, undoubtedly will school performance.

How do you think Student B will feel about him/herself as a student? Some questions to ponder:  Which student would you expect to read better? Which student would you expect to know more? Which student would you expect to write better? Which student would you expect to have the better vocabulary? Which student would you expect to be more successful in school...and in life? ||