Homework for Mrs. Rouse’s Students
June 15 - 19, 2015
Monday, Due Tuesday
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[Recorded as complete by Mrs. Rouse _______]
Read for at least 15 minutes. Title: ___________________________________________________________ Adult’s Initials _______
Math: Step Up to Third Grade #7.
Math facts page (required). On the back is the Optional Enrichment Math: Step Up #7.
Citizenship: Do one good deed (or plan to do it on the weekend). (Four good deeds are always due on Monday.)
“I checked the completed homework assignment for accuracy.” - - - - - Adult’s Initials _______
Thursday, Due Friday
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[Recorded as complete by Mrs. Rouse _______]
Read for at least 15 minutes. Title: ___________________________________________________________ Adult’s Initials _______
Math: Step Up to Third Grade #6.
Math facts page (required). On the back is the Optional Enrichment Math: Step Up #6.
Spelling/Phonics: Do either Match Word Beginnings and Endings or Word Search. Challenge: Do both sides.
Citizenship: Do one good deed (or plan to do it on the weekend).
“I checked the completed homework assignment for accuracy.” - - - - - Adult’s Initials _______
Wednesday, Due Thursday
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[Recorded as complete by Mrs. Rouse _______]
Read for at least 15 minutes. Title: ___________________________________________________________ Adult’s Initials _______
Math: Step Up to Third Grade #5.
Math facts page (required). On the back is the Optional Enrichment Math: Step Up #5.
Spelling: Phonics 65/173 (schwa sound and compound words).
Citizenship: Do one good deed (or plan to do it on the weekend). (Four good deeds are always due on Monday.)
“I checked the completed homework assignment for accuracy.” - - - - - Adult’s Initials _______
Tuesday, Due Wednesday
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[Recorded as complete by Mrs. Rouse _______]
Read for at least 15 minutes. Title: ___________________________________________________________ Adult’s Initials _______
Math: Step Up to Third Grade #8.
Math facts page (required). On the back is the Optional Enrichment Math: Step Up #8.
Spelling: Trace the spelling words on both sides of the page. Typing each of the words twice on the computer is
an acceptable substitute as long as the student does the typing. Type them in two columns.
Challenge Spelling: Write or type on the computer, with the student doing the actual typing, ten sentences with
two spelling words in each sentence. Circle or highlight the spelling words, or print them in color or bold font.
Bring a “SNUGGLY” that will fit in the backpack. I will be reading to the children while they relax with a
pillow, teddy bear, or blanket.
Citizenship: Do one good deed (or plan to do it on the weekend). (Four good deeds are always due on Monday.)
“I checked the completed homework assignment for accuracy.” - - - - - Adult’s Initials _______
Citizenship Due Next Monday (or Tuesday if Monday is a holiday)
Do four good deeds any time during the week. Four good deeds are always due even on short weeks.
My child did at least one good deed today.
Initials____________________ Date ___________________
My child did at least one good deed today.
Initials____________________ Date ___________________
My child did at least one good deed today.
Initials____________________ Date ___________________
My child did at least one good deed today.
Initials____________________ Date ___________________
This Week’s Curriculum Information
Students will be bringing home their Father’s Day gifts this week. They will also make Father’s Day cards and
write a Father’s Day letter.
Our language arts this week focuses on comparison and contrast of Cinderella stories from various cultures
around the world. (Comparing multi-cultural fairy tales is a state standard for second grade.) We’ll make a
chart showing the similarities and differences among the various stories. I have Cinderella stories from many
different cultures, and have tried to collect ones that come from ancestral cultures of as many students in my class as
possible. We’ll compare the stories (tell how they are the same) and contrast them (tell how they are different). On
Friday students may bring “snugglies” (soft items for snuggling with) while I read Cinderella stories from many
different cultures. The snuggly items must fit in the backpack. Your child may bring a teddy bear, pillow, blanket,
or even two of these, if they both fit in the backpack. Remind your child that the “snugglies” cannot be taken out of
the backpacks before school or during dismissal after school. Next week, students can bring the “snugglies” on
Monday and we will keep them at school all week so that we can use them throughout the week.
Our spelling words focus on compound words and on words with the “schwa” sound. This is the “uh” sound
that you hear vowels make in unaccented syllables of multi-syllable words. (Say any multi-syllable word. Notice that
in the non-accented syllables you say “uh” as the vowel sound instead of saying the vowel’s regular long or short
sound.) In a dictionary, the schwa sound is shown as an upside-down e. Other spelling words are compound words,
which are made of two separate words combined into one.
In math we are working with the "Step Up to Third Grade" math pages about fractions. For our math facts for
the rest of the year, we will be memorizing multiplication facts. Friday’s math facts homework is optional.
For science life cycles, students are observing the final stage in the metamorphosis of Oriental Silk Moths.
The pupae inside the cocoons have emerged as flightless moths this week. The adult silk moths dissolved the ends of
their cocoons and emerged to live very short lives. All they do is mate, lay eggs, and die. They can’t fly.
Spelling Words – Test Friday
Schwa (“uh” sound
in unaccented syllables)
above
across
about
among
against
amount
Compound Words
Voluntary Challenge Words
somewhere
into however
inside understand
themselves
upon
himself anything
within everything
without everyone
someone
anyplace
baseball
sidewalk
airplane
teamwork
halftime
birthday
earthquake
newspaper
sailboat
spaceship
meanwhile
All students are tested on ten or twelve of the regular words. Some other words that follow the same pattern, but are not
on this list, may be tested. Those who need more challenge should learn the Voluntary Challenge Words. Students who
have not studied the Challenge Words should not attempt them on the test.
Important Dates
June 18
June 19
June 23
June 26
July 6
Olympics
Bring “snugglies” for relaxed listening to multicultural fairy tales
Awards Assembly
Last Day of School (Noon Dismissal)
Track on for 2015/2016 School Year