This testing regimen has sure eaten up the better part of a month. For humanitarian reasons, I just cannot bring myself to assign homework when the kids are testing and schedules are weird. So for the last month, homework has been fairly sporadic: I've been sneaking it in when there isn't testing, but generally there has been some kind of testing.
So now that the testing barrage is behind us, for the next two weeks there will only be homework for items that students get wrong on their daily math reviews. What does that mean? Everyday when the kids come in, they have 4 math problems to do on the board. They have 10-15 minutes to complete them and then we go over the answers. Any that students get correct, they place a star on. Any that are incorrect they place a big H on it -- which means that problem is now a homework problem.
And so for this week and next, those will be the only homework problems students have from me. So keep an eye out daily! MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY, your child should bring home a piece of notebook paper with four math problems on it and they should be marked with stars or with H's.
I will not be checking these homeworks in, myself. They are an expectation and an opportunity for practice and I hope that you will encourage your child to be diligent in practicing their math.
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