Homework Calendars

Your child will be given the Homework Calendar on the first school day of each month. There is a little
job to be done each day that should take fifteen minutes (or less), plus the daily reading.
It is really important that your child reads at home each day. Just as children improve in sports and
music with lots of practice - becoming a good reader takes lots of practice, too.
Another important thing that you can do is to read to him/her each day. Children who have had books
read to them have a huge advantage in school. This is especially important if your child is not yet reading
fluently.
The daily homework items on the calendar are meant to be suggestions. If your child finds the daily
work too difficult to do on his/her own, have fun doing it together.
If your child finds todays work too easy, add to the homework to make it more challenging.
Make homework time a happy time! If it is something the child enjoys, the benefits are much greater.

September 2015
Sunday

Monday

Name ___________________

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

7
Labour Day

8
Admin Day

9
First day of school!

11

12

No sessions

No sessions

10
Discuss the
important days in
this month with a
family member.

14
1st day Rosh
Hashanah

15
2nd day Rosh
Hashanah

17
Practice skip
counting by 3,4, 5,
& 6.

18

19

No sessions

No sessions

16
Write a paragraph
about your
favourite summer
activity.

21
Do some difficult 3
digit addition
questions.

22
Erev Yom Kippur

23
Yom Kippur

No sessions

24
Practice all of the
times tables up to
9.

25

26

28
1st day Sukkot

29
2nd day Sukkot

No sessions

**Everyday - Read

by yourself
or to

someone in your

family.

13

20

11:25 dismissal

27

Erev
Sukkot

No sessions

30
Make 15 subtract.
with re-grouping
questions & solve.
Have someone mark
them.

Did you do your homework every day? Put a star on every day that you did the work!

Tips for Parents / Guardians:

Read aloud each day. You are modelling good reading and increasing the listening and speaking vocabulary of your
child. Children who have been read to daily will have better comprehension skills when they read themselves.
Have your child read out loud to you. If he/she makes mistakes or comes to words that
are not known, just say the correct word so the reading can continue. Encourage fluent reading
with expression, as if the reader is telling a story.
Discuss how there are different ways to read books - by reading pictures, by reading words, and by retelling.
Encourage your child to retell what they have just read in their own words.
Continue practicing multiplication and division facts at home. Try to find ways to incorporate the use of
multiplication or division into daily tasks with your child.
Cooking can also be a great way to incorporate math into daily life. Involve your child in helping out at dinner time
and let them help measure ingredients for dishes or estimate the number of potatoes that are needed to feed
everyone.
For additional websites and information check out our classroom blog.

October 2015
Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

**Everyday
- Read

by yourself or to

someone
in your
family.

11

18

25

1
Look up the word
homophone. Write
as many as you can
think of.

10

No sessions

No sessions

12
Thanksgiving

13
Complete five 2diget by 2-diget
multiplication
questions.

14
Find a rectangle
shape at home &
find the perimeter
& area.

15
Write 3 extremely
descriptive
sentences. Make
sure they are not
run on sentences.

16

17

19
Write down/draw
everything you know
about forces and
machines.

20
Practice your
Canadian knowledge
skills. Can you
remember all the
capitals in Canada?

21
Practice your
division. How is
division related to
multiplication?
Explain.

22
Identify 3 simple
machines that you
used today.

23
Pro D Day

24

26
If you were moving
to a foreign
country, what are 5
challenges you think
you will face? Why?

27
Create a pattern
and see if a friend
or adult can figure
out the pattern
rule.

28
Find an interesting
articles online or in
the paper. see if
you can make any
connections to
topics in class.

29
Look up 5 new words
that you do not
know the meaning
of. Write a
sentence using each
word.

Saturday

7
8
Practice all of the Do five 3-digit by 1times tables up to 9.
digit division
questions.

Friday

6
Simhat Torah

Thursday

5
Shmini Atzeret

No sessions

Name ___________________

Did you do your homework every day? Put a star on every day that you did the work!

No sessions

30

31

November 2015

Sunday

Name ___________________

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

2
Choose the
timetables that are
hardest for you.
Write them out &
try to memorize.

3
How did force
affect you today?
Give 3 examples.

4
Make 10 equations
that equal to 24.
(e.g. 23+1 = 24)

5
Debate whether or
not there should be
uniforms in schools.
Give 3 points for
each side!

6
Pro D Day

9
Research a famous
Canadian. Write
down 5-10
interesting facts
about this person.

10
Practice your
divisions. Play an
online division game.

11
Remembrance Day
No sessions

12
Newspaper night!
Choose 2 newspaper
articles. Read aloud
& pretend you are
the reporter.

13
Early Friday
dismissal starts
(2:20)

14

15

16
Practice spelling
some words that
you find difficult.

17
Find 3 groups of
Aboriginal people
who were affected
by immigration.

18
Practice your
multiplication. Play
an online
multiplication game.

19
Write 15 subraction
with re-grouping
questions & solve.
Have someone mark
them.

20

21

22

23
Write 15 addition
with re-grouping
questions & solve.
Have someone
mark them.

24
Write a story about
your friends. Use
at least 5 new
words using a
thesaurus.

25
Newspaper night!
Read a newspaper
article and discuss
it with a family
member.

26
Research a famous
immigrant to
Canada. Write down
3-5 challenges that
this immigrant may
have faced.

27

28

**Everyday - Read

by yourself or to

someone in your

family.

29

30
Play an online math
game.

Did you do your homework every day? Put a star on every day that you did the work!

No sessions

December 2015
Sunday

Monday

**Everyday

Read by yourself
or to someone in
your
family.

Name ___________________

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

1
Newspaper night!
Read a newspaper
article and discuss
it with a family
member.

2
Create a complex
machine that uses
at least 3 simple
machines that you
have learned.

3
Practice your
multiplication. Play
an online
multiplication
game.

7
Play a board game
such as checkers
or scrabble.

8
Do some sort of
physical activity.

9
Research a city in
another province.
Write down 5-10
interesting facts
about that city.

10
Write 15 addition
with re-grouping
questions & solve.
Have someone
mark them.

11

12

13

14
Practice spelling
some words that
you find difficult.

15
Practice your
divisions. Play an
online division
game.

16
Write down 3
learning goals that
you would like to
work on in Term 2.

17
Find an interesting
articles online or in
the paper. See if
you can make any
connections to
topics in class.

18

19

20

21
Play an online math
game.

22
Read a book &
make a connection
(text-to-text,
text-to-self etc.)

23
Write a paragraph
about your
favourite part of
1st term.

24
Practice all of the
multiplication
tables up to 9.

25

26

27

28
Make a mind map
around everything
you learned in 1st
term.

29
Play a board like
with a friend or
family member.

30
Practice five 3digit by 1-digit
division questions.

31
Write a story
about your winter
break. Have
someone help you
edit.

Did you do your homework every day? Put a star on every day that you did the work!