paarnold Mrs. Arnold
W.A. Hurst Elementary School Special Education--Varying Exceptionalities, Grades 4 and 5
 
"...But we don't have any homework!"  YOU aren't falling
                                     for that, are you?
Here's the scoop--

Homework credit can be earned in a variety of ways. Multiples of 100% are possible for each child as they, and their families, pick from the following possibilities:

----Each student is expected to get from the newspaper,
   from television, or radio news, one news item.  This
   item will be written up, on a form provided, as to who,
   did what, when, where, and why.  There is to be
   categorizing as to whether the news item relates to
   local, state, national, international, or space. In
   class each day, the student is expected to be able to
   offer his news item, give these details, others, listen
   to the news items of others, participate properly in a
   discussion of these news items.  Math from the news
   items will be recognition of numbers in the news, i.e.
   miles to the hubble, number of persons wishing to  
   become U.S. citizens last year, shopping from ads for
   specific items, and categories of items.  Three days a
   week, a newspaper is provided from within school for
   taking home, for use in homework.

       SKILLS: READING, IN CONTEXT OF RELEVANCY
               WRITING: REPORT OF THAT READ
               MATH: AS APPLICABLE
               ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS: CATEGORIZING

       EVALUATION:  CLASS PRESENTATION
               PRODUCT--THAT WRITTEN
               UNDERSTANDING--SHOWN IN REPORT

----D E A R--Drop Everything And Read!  For a minimum of
   one-half hour each evening:
   Parent supervised.  

        SKILLS: READING PRACTICE
        EVALUATION: LISTING, SIGNED, OF THAT
                READ, CONVERSATION ABOUT THAT
                READ  

----Watch "WHEEL OF FORTUNE!"

----Watch "JEOPARDY!"

        SKILLS: ACQUISITION OF FACTS
                LETTER-TO-WORD-TO PHRASE
                    BUILDING  
                READING
                ADDING AND SUBTRACTING
                ATTENTION--FOCUSING
                ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS

        EVALUATION:  CLASS DISCUSSION
                CLASSIFYING FACTS
                CALCULATION OF MONEY WON, COST OF PRIZES
                RANKING OF WINNERS BY MONEY WON,
                     FACTS, HAPPENINGS IN HISTORY,
                     ANSWERS

----MAKE UP of any work not finished in class that
        day.

----CORRECTION of any class work on which the student has
        not already earned 100%, to up the grade to one
        hundred with this correction.

----EXTRA WORK, for extra credit, extra
                learning!
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