Your child will learn the most and do the best work in a joint effort between the home and the school. Here are some of the areas where you can help at home: 1. Nightly Reading - Required Reading is one of the best ways to improve and enhance a wide variety of language skills. Reading with your child makes a powerful statement to the child about the importance and value of reading. All Gov. Bent students are required to read to an adult or have an adult read to them 15-20 minutes per day (Monday-Thursday). Children must keep a daily reading record that lists the days read, the name of the story(ies) read, the child's signature, the parent's signature, and the date. Charts are turned in every Friday. 2. Nightly Writing - Required All Gov. Bent students are required to "write" in their Nightly Writing Journals for about 15-20 minutes on Monday-Thursday evenings. At first, your child may "scribble" or "doodle", or write words they try to sound out phonetically. As the year progresses, your child will start writing more complete sentences using correct spelling, capitalization, and punctuation. Parental assistance will greatly facilitate the learning process. Please date each entry. 3. Spelling tests: Children will be expected to practice and learn a weekly list of spelling words for a weekly spelling teat. 4. Time tests: Children will be expected to practice and learn a weekly list of math addition and subtraction facts for a weekly time test. 5. Miscellaneous: Students will have regular reading, writing, and math homework that needs to be completed nightly (Monday-Thursday) whenever assigned. These assignments must be returned each morning for the teacher to grade, record, and return.