February Homework Ideas

This is a collection of ideas that can be used as homework activities or as individual skill practice in the classroom. There are ideas for helping you set up a Homework Plan that can be used for each week throughout the school year.

There are four weekly packages and a Valentine home project for a total of more than 30 printable pages included in the February Homework Ideas package.

Homework envelope/folder

"Start with a Heart" is a great home project to celebrate Valentine's Day with fun hearts that are easily displayed. All of the patterns and directions are provided in an easy to print format. There is even a banner to help in decorating a bulletin board!

Valentine banner

February Homework

Week 1

The first week's homework package includes the following:

1. Cover sheet to explain assignments to parents. This also offers helpful hints and ideas on ways to assist their child with homework. The cover sheet is formatted for you to be able to edit to suit your needs.

2. Handwriting practice for the capital and lower-case letter S.

3. On a Roll Game is a fun activity to practice the 25 most frequently used words. This game is a fun way for students to master the Dolch list sight words.

4. This is a letter that you may choose to use. It gives parents some fun, helpful ideas to assist their child in mastering the sight words. These are ideas that would work for any list of sight words.

5. A fun worksheet to help students hear the ending sounds: d. t. p and k.

6. Heart Dot-to-dot for students to practice counting by 5s to 50.

7. Worksheet to practice number sequence. There are also helpful hints for parents to help their student at home with counting.

Week 2 Homework

This week's homework package includes the following:

1. Cover sheet to explain assignments to parents. This also offers helpful hints on ways to assist their child. The cover sheet is formatted for you to be able to edit to suit your needs.

2. Ending Sounds worksheet for the following sounds: t, m, s, and r.

3. A blank story writing page with dotted lines for students to write why they think they are "special." There is also a book cover provided to make a class book--"We Are All Special." (sample shown on right.)

4. A practice worksheet for students to learn their phone number. (see sample below)

5. Bar Graph for Valentine's Day. This is a worksheet for students to count and record data with Valentine candies.

Week 3 Homework

This week's homework package includes the following:

1. Cover sheet to explain assignments to parents. This also offers helpful hints on ways to assist their child. The cover sheet is formatted for you to be able to edit to suit your needs. There is also a copy that you can edit if you would like to add or delete to customize your homework package.

2. Consonant Blends Children match the consonant blends: br, pr, cr, tr and fr to the correct pictures.

3. Abe Lincoln Book This is a mini-book (two pages) that children illustrate and staple together to make an eight page booklet. The text is very easy, emergent level for students to be able to read on their own.

4. Math--Subtraction Children are given pictures to "take away" the objects.

5. Number Robot is a cute, little robot that children use to count from 1-100. A number strip is threaded through the robot to practice counting and identifying numbers. FUN! (see sample below)

Week 4 Homework

For the last week in February the homework package includes:

2. Fill in the blanks using pictures to write short, phonetic words. The words are all consonant-vowel-consonant words that make it very easy for students to "sound out" the words.

3. Worksheet for matching capitals and lower-case letters to spell "Washington." This is also an opportunity to fit social studies in with language arts!

4. Dot to Dot combines math skills and social studies skills to find a silhouette of Washington.

5. Half to Whole is a lesson on fractions as well as symmetry. Students look at a picture that is split in the middle to finish the other half.

Sample Reading Pages

Below are samples of some of the many activities that are included in the February Homework Package. The samples are given in low resolution and sometimes distorted but the PDFs that you will receive will print clearly.

1: Ending Sounds

2: High Frequency Reading Game

1: Fill in the blanks with short phonetic words.

2: Abe Lincoln mini book sample

3: Washington's letter matching

Sample Math Pages

1: Heart dot to dot --counting by 5s

2: Telephone number practice paper

3: Robot math counting paper

The February Homework Package includes four weeks of homework and a special Heart Home Project for a total of more than 30 pages. Each of the weekly packets have at least five activities. These pages can be used for homework or in the classroom for skill work. The package is available for $15.

After payment is received, an access link will be provided for you to be able to instantly access the materials. If you would like to pay by check, please contact me at:

lcritchell @kinderteacher.com (no space) Please let me know if you have any questions.

****Please note I will email the access link within 24 hours to the email address on your Paypal account. If you have not received an email with the access link within this time, please contact me!

Discount for Two Homework

If you are interested in the purchasing more than one Homework Package, there is a 10% discount given. Please indicate in the message area which months you are interested in purchasing.

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