J R Bonfield Elementary

Homework

Guidelines

Homework begins in the month of October. The purpose of first grade homework is to practice and reinforce the skills learned at school. 

  • Spend ten minutes on studying sight words and/or spelling words.
  • Spend ten minutes reading.

Weekly Routines

  • All homework will come home in your child's clear homework envelope.
  • Spelling and sight words will come home the 1st day of each week.
  • Spelling tests are on Fridays.
  • A book or paper passage will be sent home for fluency practice.  Feel free to supplement with books of your choice.
  • All books or paper reading passages sent home in the students' clear homework folders should be returned the next school day for use in class.
  • There is no written homework.
  • There is nothing to sign.  
  • No Friday homework!