{"id":721,"date":"2017-12-03T16:52:32","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T21:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrmay\/?p=721"},"modified":"2017-12-04T14:44:36","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T19:44:36","slug":"homework-and-extra-credit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrmay\/2017\/12\/03\/homework-and-extra-credit\/","title":{"rendered":"Homework and Extra Credit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With today\u2019s busy schedules and extra-curricular activities, assigning homework on a nightly basis can be stressful for families.\u00a0 Although I don\u2019t claim to have the perfect answer, I do have a solution to those families looking for opportunities to have their children practice concepts outside the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, your child has an up to date skill level selected on Khan Academy Math Mappers as well as the reading program MyOn (Non-fiction should be the text type focused on).\u00a0 For twenty minutes recorded on either website, I will give three extra credit points to the current day\u2019s math assignment or reading assignment.\u00a0 Please note, extra credit will only be added to fully completed current classroom assignments.<\/p>\n<p>As always, twenty minutes of reading is expected for each student every night and should be recorded in your \u201cat home reading journal.\u201d (Black composition book)\u00a0 However, any math, spelling or content area work not completed in class, will need to be completed at home for the next day\u2019s class.\u00a0 Please note, these assignments are always given an appropriate amount of time to complete in class and are never planned on being completed at home on my part; i.e. spelling definitions, weekly cursive\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Mr. May<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With today\u2019s busy schedules and extra-curricular activities, assigning homework on a nightly basis can be stressful for families.\u00a0 Although I don\u2019t claim to have the perfect answer, I do have a solution to those families looking for opportunities to have their children practice concepts outside the classroom. Currently, your child has an up to date [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrmay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrmay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrmay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrmay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrmay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrmay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrmay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrmay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrmay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}