These first grade homework packs can be printed out and sent home with your students on a Monday. They can also be used as a weekly classwork pack for early finishers.

The packs follow a familiar structure each week so that students will become familiar with them quickly and be able to work on them independently.

Each day students can work on one math page and one writing prompt. There is also a weekly reading log at the end of the pack, which includes a space for students to keep track of their reading over the weekend. (ELA – Literacy.RF.1.4a)

The pack comes with an editable version for each week as well as a PDF.

Math

The math pages cover different standards, with an emphasis on Operations and Algebraic Thinking since that is so much of what first grade math is all about. There are spaces for students to write about how they solved a problem, and checklists to help guide them. There are also word problems with student work already included in it. Students will have to think critically to see if the sample work is correct or not.

Writing

The writing prompts aim to cover different writing standards, but the overall goal is for students to practice writing. The playful prompts will hopefully motivate all students. There is a space provided for them to draw a picture as well. Students are generally asked to give their opinions and explain their thinking about different topics (ELA – Literacy.W.1.1), as well as to explain how to do things step by step (ELA – Literacy.W.1.3).

At the bottom of each writing page there are mini checklists for students to use to make sure they are using capital letters, punctuation, etc. (ELA – Literacy.RF.1.2)

Every Friday there is a sight word search with words from the Dolch pre-primer, primer, and first grade word lists. (ELA – Literacy.RF.1.4)