Upcoming Events
Monday, 9/9
Tuesday, 9/10 K-2 Curriculum Information Night, 6:30 pm
Wednesday, 9/11 3-5 Curriculum Information Night, 6:30 pm
Thursday, 9/12 +Works Coffee or Brown Bag Lunch (get details on the website)
Friday, 9/13 Fall Holiday - No School
Wednesday, 9/18 5th Grade Service Day - Houston Food Bank
Thursday, 9/19 PTO Staff Appreciation Lunch; SDMC Meeting, 3:30 pm
Wednesday, 9/25 Early Dismissal, 12:30 pm - Professional Development
Are you a registered volunteer?
To chaperone a field trip, or assist in the school, you must complete this process. It takes 2-3 weeks, so please help us by taking care of it as soon as possible. Here is how:
How can I become a VIPS? All volunteers must register online and pass a criminal background check before they can participate as a volunteer. Please follow the steps below to become a VIPS:
What type of identification is accepted?
● Texas Driver’s License
● Official Passport
● Texas Identification Card
● Official U. S. Military ID
● Driver’s License (issued by any state in the U.S.)
● Matricula Consular
● Identification Card (issued by any state in the U.S.)
● Resident Alien Card
If you were registered last year, skip step 1. Bring an acceptable type of identification to the Main Office and we will do the rest. You can check with Ms. Niksch approximately 2-3 weeks after you bring in identification to make sure you are eligible to volunteer.
Spotlight on Homework
What Should a Parent Expect?
Homework is an opportunity for your child to practice important skills they are learning at school. At Roberts, homework should generally take 10 minutes each night for every year your child has been in school, plus 20-30 minutes of nightly reading. So, a first grader may have 10-20 minutes of homework and additional reading each night. A fifth grade student would likely have one hour of homework plus nightly reading.
How Can Parents Help Establish Strong Habits?
Set a routine for homework. Decide with your child when homework will be done each night, and find a location that is free from distractions. Make sure your child understands what to do, and then check the work when it is complete.
Why Isn't Homework Graded?
For many years the policy at Roberts about homework has been that while it should be checked, it should not be graded. Many parents wonder why. Homework is an opportunity for students to leave the safe confines of the classroom and practice what they learned independently. Children need the repeated practice to firmly root new learning. Teachers need to know whether students could complete the new learning with accuracy. Often times, students need support at home when they can't remember how they "did the work" at school. When you sit with your child and help with homework you are supporting their understanding. The confusion comes when students return with work completed accurately, but they actually could not do the work alone. The best way to support your child when they are struggling with homework is certainly to help, but make a note on the assignment for the teacher. If you helped with questions 3 and 5, the teacher will want to know that. A strong line of communication with your child's teacher will let her know what reteaching needs to be done during the next class period.
Our goal is to ensure your child is proficient with the work. When homework is graded, often the focus shifts from independent practice, to a focus on getting everything correct for the best grade. This will often work against us because the teacher won't have a clear picture of what your child is doing well, and what she is still learning.
When Is It Done?
an excerpt from the article entitled, Avoiding Homework Wars by Diana Browning Wright
Have you registered as a user for the Roberts website yet?
Email our webmaster for your parent ID and password today!
roberts.info.services@gmail.com
Monday, 9/9
Tuesday, 9/10 K-2 Curriculum Information Night, 6:30 pm
Wednesday, 9/11 3-5 Curriculum Information Night, 6:30 pm
Thursday, 9/12 +Works Coffee or Brown Bag Lunch (get details on the website)
Friday, 9/13 Fall Holiday - No School
Wednesday, 9/18 5th Grade Service Day - Houston Food Bank
Thursday, 9/19 PTO Staff Appreciation Lunch; SDMC Meeting, 3:30 pm
Wednesday, 9/25 Early Dismissal, 12:30 pm - Professional Development
Are you a registered volunteer?
To chaperone a field trip, or assist in the school, you must complete this process. It takes 2-3 weeks, so please help us by taking care of it as soon as possible. Here is how:
How can I become a VIPS? All volunteers must register online and pass a criminal background check before they can participate as a volunteer. Please follow the steps below to become a VIPS:
| Step 1: | Register online at www.houstonisd.org/vipslogin. |
| Step 2: | Once you have registered, you must go in person to the school of interest and show proof of identification. |
| Step 3: | Identification information will go into our database for processing by the Volunteer Coordinator at each campus. |
| Step 4: | The criminal history background check can take 2-3 weeks to complete. |
| Step 5: | Once you are CLEARED to volunteer, you are eligible to volunteer throughout HISD. |
What type of identification is accepted?
● Texas Driver’s License
● Official Passport
● Texas Identification Card
● Official U. S. Military ID
● Driver’s License (issued by any state in the U.S.)
● Matricula Consular
● Identification Card (issued by any state in the U.S.)
● Resident Alien Card
If you were registered last year, skip step 1. Bring an acceptable type of identification to the Main Office and we will do the rest. You can check with Ms. Niksch approximately 2-3 weeks after you bring in identification to make sure you are eligible to volunteer.
Spotlight on Homework
What Should a Parent Expect?
Homework is an opportunity for your child to practice important skills they are learning at school. At Roberts, homework should generally take 10 minutes each night for every year your child has been in school, plus 20-30 minutes of nightly reading. So, a first grader may have 10-20 minutes of homework and additional reading each night. A fifth grade student would likely have one hour of homework plus nightly reading.
How Can Parents Help Establish Strong Habits?
Set a routine for homework. Decide with your child when homework will be done each night, and find a location that is free from distractions. Make sure your child understands what to do, and then check the work when it is complete.
Why Isn't Homework Graded?
For many years the policy at Roberts about homework has been that while it should be checked, it should not be graded. Many parents wonder why. Homework is an opportunity for students to leave the safe confines of the classroom and practice what they learned independently. Children need the repeated practice to firmly root new learning. Teachers need to know whether students could complete the new learning with accuracy. Often times, students need support at home when they can't remember how they "did the work" at school. When you sit with your child and help with homework you are supporting their understanding. The confusion comes when students return with work completed accurately, but they actually could not do the work alone. The best way to support your child when they are struggling with homework is certainly to help, but make a note on the assignment for the teacher. If you helped with questions 3 and 5, the teacher will want to know that. A strong line of communication with your child's teacher will let her know what reteaching needs to be done during the next class period.
Our goal is to ensure your child is proficient with the work. When homework is graded, often the focus shifts from independent practice, to a focus on getting everything correct for the best grade. This will often work against us because the teacher won't have a clear picture of what your child is doing well, and what she is still learning.
When Is It Done?
an excerpt from the article entitled, Avoiding Homework Wars by Diana Browning Wright
For some kids, right after school is the perfect time to do the work because the assignment is fresh in their minds. Others need a break before they can tackle more school work.
Sometimes team sports, a parent's work schedule, or other activities interfere with doing homework immediately after school. With your child's input, you may need to develop two plans: one for the usual day and one for unusual events. When you agree on the plans, write them down.
If your child usually resists homework, make sure it doesn't immediately follow an interesting, rewarding activity (e.g., skateboarding with friends, playing a computer game). That can make the task look even more distasteful. Instead, transition her from fun activities to activities less enjoyable but also less difficult than homework. For example, ask her to bring in the mail, then ask her to set the table, and follow that with a request to help you tear lettuce for the salad. This is called "behavioral momentum," getting your child to do tasks that are not hard and are rarely resisted before you ask her to do something challenging. The idea is to create a distance from the fun activity to the more difficult one by inserting small, neutral tasks. Resistance is less likely if the momentum of compliance is built first.
Have you registered as a user for the Roberts website yet?
Email our webmaster for your parent ID and password today!
roberts.info.services@gmail.com
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