January home project-snowman

January Family Homework Project
Due: Wednesday, January 18th

This week, we read the story Snowballs by Lois Ehlert. In the story, children wait for a “perfect snowball day” to build a snowman using some things they had saved throughout the year. The illustrations are so creative and hopefully have sparked some ideas for your child's Snowman Project!
For our January Family Project, children will work with their families to create a paper snowman using various objects. They may want to make a snowdad, a snowmom, a baby snowman, a snowcat, etc. Will your snowman have a scarf, eyes, nose, mouth, ears, hat, arms, etc.?  Your family gets to decide!  Begin by helping your child cut out the attached snowman… and then get started!
What types of objects could your family use? How about seeds, popcorn, raisins, peanuts, kernels of corn, ribbons, string, buttons, bottle caps, plastic forks, sticks, jewelry, etc. Whatever you find! 

    Have fun and stay warm!
    Mrs. Sawyer

BG Kindergarten Sight Word List

These are the sight words for kindergarten by 9 week periods.  We work on these in the classroom, but if you would like to practice at home I am listing them below and I will send home a paper copy in your child's green behavior folder tomorrow 12/15/11.

1st 9 weeks:  red, yellow, blue, green, purple, orange, brown, white, black, pink, a, am, are, I, is, like, little, me, see, the, to

2nd 9 weeks:  and, at, come, for, go, have, he, she, we, in, it, look, my, not, of, they, will, with, you, yes, no

3rd 9 weeks:  all, an, as, be, can, did, do, from. has, here, if, may, on, said, some, that, us, went, were, one, two, three, four, five

4th 9 weeks:  behind, but, get, had, make, many, or, out, over, so, stop, them, this, too, under, up, was, what, where

Homework-December

I sent home the December homework in your child's green folder last week.  These will be due on January 3rd when we return from the winter break.

Also, if you have not turned in your November homework, please do so as soon as possible.  Thanks.

Holiday Writing

The students in Mrs. Sawyer's homeroom are working on their holiday writing paper.  The notes and outline are due this Friday.  Next week we will be writing the rough draft and then our final draft.  We are doing this paper in preparation for our black history project starting after MLK day and into the month of February.

As the students are writing their outlines they will need to use topic sentences just like in their photo essay they did with Mrs. Henley in the fall.  Some examples are:

This paragraph will be about....

You are about to learn about......

I will now teach you.....

Homework January 4-January 10, 2011

Sunshine Math XV due on Monday, January 10, 2011

Dividing regions into equal parts (Lesson 11-1) due on Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Fractions and Regions (Lesson 11-2) due on Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Fractions and Sets (Lesson 11-3) due on Thursday, January 6, 2011

Fractions and Length (Lesson 11-4) due on Friday, January 7, 2011

Homework December 14-17, 2010

Fact Families with 6 and 7 (Lesson 10-6) due on Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Fact Families with 8 and 9 (Lesson 10-7) due on Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Dividing with 0 and 1 (Lesson 10-8) due on Thursday, December 16, 2010

Division Patterns (Lesson 10-9) due on Friday, December 17, 2010

Sunshine Math XIV due on Friday, December 17, 2010

Homework Dec 7-Dec 13, 2010

Sunshine Math XIII due on Monday, Dec 13, 2010

Using an Expanded Algorithm (Lesson 9-5) due on Tuesday, Dec 7, 2010


Multiplying 2-digit by 1 digit numbers (Lesson 9-6)  due on Wednesday, Dec 8, 2010

Problem Solving: Draw a Picture and Write a Number sentence (Lesson 9-7) due on Thursday, Dec 9, 2010

Division as Sharing (Lesson 10-1) due on Friday, Dec 10, 2010

Homework November 30-December 6, 2010

Sunshine Math XV is due on Monday, December 6th.

Division as Repeated Addition (Lesson 10-2) due on Tuesday, November 30th.

Writing Division Stories (Lesson 10-3) due on Wednesday, December 1st.

Relating Multiplication and Division (Lesson 10-4) due Thursday, December 2nd.

Fact Families with 2, 3, 4, and 5 (Lesson 10-5) due on Friday, December 3rd.

Homework November 15-22, 2010

Sunshine Math XII due on Monday, November 22, 2010

Using Mental Math to Multiply (Lesson 9-1) due on Tuesday, November 15th.

Estimating Products (Lesson 9-2) due on Wednesday, November 16th.

Multiplication and Arrays (Lesson 9-3) due on Thursday, November 17th.

Breaking apart to Multiply (Lesson 9-4) due on Friday, November 18th.

Homework November 9-15, 2010

Sunshine Math XI due on Monday, November 15th.

6 and 7 as Factors (Lesson 8-3) due on Tuesday, November 9th.

8 as a Factor (Lesson 8-4) due on Wednesday, November 10th.

Multiplying with 3 factors (Lesson 8-5) due on Thursday, November 11th.

Problem Solving: Multiple step problems (Lesson 8-6) due on Friday, November 12th.

Homework November 2-8, 2010

Sunshine Math X due on Monday, November 8th.

10, 11, and 12 as Factors (Lesson 7-4) due Tuesday, November 2nd.

Problem Solving: Two question problems (Lesson 7-5) due Wednesday, November 3rd.

3 as a Factor (Lesson 8-1) due Thursday, November 4th.

4 as a Factor (Lesson 8-2) due Friday, November 5th.

Homework October 26-November 1, 2010

Sunshine Math IX is due Monday, November 1st.

Problem Solving:  Writing to Explain (Lesson 6-5) due Tuesday, October 26th

2 and 5 as Factors (Lesson 7-1) due Wednesday, October 27th.

9 as a Factor (Lesson 7-2) due Thursday, October 28th.

Multiplying with 0 and 1 Lesson 7-3) due October 29th.

Homework October 25-29, 2010

Monday:  Sunshine Math VII is due

Monday:  Lesson 6.5 Problem Solving:  writing to explain is due Tuesday 10/26


Tuesday:  Lesson 7.1  2 and 5 as Factors is  due Wednesday 10/27


Wednesday:  Lesson 7.2  9as a factor is due Thursday 10/28

Thursday:  Lesson 7.3 Multiplying with 0 and 1 is due Friday 10/29

Sunshine Math IX is due Monday, November 1

Homework October 19-25, 2010

Multiplication as Repeated Addition (Lesson 6-1) is due Tuesday, October 19th.

Arrays and Multiplication (Lesson 6-2) is due Wednesday, October 20th.

Using Multiplication to Compare (Lesson 6-3) due Thursday, October 21st.

Writing Multiplication Stories (Lesson 6-4) due Friday, October 22nd.

Sunshine Math VIII is due Monday, October 25th.

Homework October 18-22, 2010

Monday:  Sunshine Math VII is due

Monday:  Lesson 6.1 Multiplication as repeated addition due Tuesday 10/19

Tuesday:  Lesson 6.2  Arrays and multiplication is due Wednesday 10/20

Wednesday:  Lesson 6.3  Using multiplication to compare is due Thursday 10/21

Thursday:  Lesson 6.4 Writing multiplication stories is due Friday 10/22

Sunshine Math VIII is due Monday, October 25th

Homework October 11-October 15, 2010

Monday:  Sunshine Math VI is due

Monday:  Lesson 5.1 Models for Subtracting 2 digit numbers is due Tuesday 10/12

Tuesday:  Lesson 5.2  Subtracting 2 digit numbers is due Wednesday 10/13

Wednesday:  Lesson 5.4  Subtracting 3-digit numbers is due Thursday 10/14

Thursday:  Lesson 5.5 Subtracting across zero is due Friday 10/15

Sunshine Math VII is due Monday, October 18th

Penny Timeline Project

Dear Parents,

For social studies the students will be making a penny timeline in class.  In order to get ready for this project there has to be some preparation done at home. 

1. The students need to collect a penny for each year they have been alive.  For example if your child was born in 2002, then they would need a penny for 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010.  So every child will need to go on a penny scavenger hunt, which should be FUN!!

2. Each student needs to fill out the attached sheet with an event that happened each year of their life.  So the first box would be the year they were born (I will still use the example above), so if your child was born in 2002, what happened at 0 years of age, probably they were born.  Then in 2003 at 1 year of age they walked.  Next in 2004 at the age of 2 they were talking.  And this would continue.  The more details the better.  They cannot put I turned 2, I turned 3.  That will not be accepted. 

3. Then in class we will be putting together our time lines using art work, pennies and all the exciting things that have happened in their lives.

4. The pennies are due Friday, October 8, 2010.  The pennies coming to school on time is part of the grade.  The pennies need to be in an envelope or plastic bag with the students name on it.

5. If you have extra pennies from the years of 2000-2010 and would like to contribute them to the class for any students who might need them, please feel free to send them. 

 Thanks,

Jamie Sawyer

jbronste@houstonisd.org

Homework-Week of October 4-8, 2010

Sunshine Math Week VI is due on Monday, October 11, 2010

Lesson 4-1  Subtraction Meanings is due on Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Lesson 4-2  Subtraction on a Hundred Chart is due on Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Lesson 4-3 Using Mental Math to Subtract is due on Thursday, October 7, 2010

Lesson 4-4  Estimating Differences is due on Friday, October 8, 2010

Homework-Week of September 27-October 1, 2010

Sunshine Math Week V is due on Monday, October 4, 2010

Monday:  Estimating Sums Lesson 2-5

Tuesday:  Problem Solving:  Draw A Picture Lesson 2-6

Wednesday:  Adding 2-digit numbers Lesson 3-1

Thursday:  Models for Adding 3-Digit Numbers  Lesson 3-2

Homework September 20-24, 2010

Monday:  Lesson 2-1  Addition Meaning and Properties  (Due Tuesday)

Tuesday:  Lesson 2.2  Adding on a Hundred Chart  (Due Wednesday)

Wednesday:  Lesson 2.3  Using Mental Math to Add  (Due Thursday)

Thursday:  Back to Schoool Raffle (Expanded Notation)  (Due Friday)

All week:  Sunshine Math Week IV  (Due Monday, September 27th)