Thursday, January, 22^nd, 2009

Dear First Grade Families,

          During our shared reading time this week we learned to read the story The Doorbell Rang.  We completed a story map, we learned the contractions it’s, we’re and I’ve, we made a list of short a  words and used them in a sentence, and we did a making words lesson.  In math this week we worked with base ten blocks.  Base ten blocks have a long that is ten and a cube that is 1.  We used the blocks to make numbers.  We also counted using our calculators and we learned about greater then, less than, and equal.

          On Monday we read a book about Martin Luther Kin Jr. and completed an activity so we could understand what it was like to live during his time when everything was segregated.  We talked a lot about how proud he would be that we have a black president and that his dream has come true.

On Tuesday we watched the presidential inauguration and read a weekly reader about President Barack Obama.

There will be no school tomorrow, Friday, January 23^rd and Monday, January 26th.  We are having teacher in-services on those days.  The last day of the marking period is today.  Report cards will come home on Friday, January 30^th.

Your child completed their first spelling test of the year today.  If they spelled all six of their words correctly they received a pack of Smarties candies.  Corrected tests came home today.

Questions to ask your child this week are the following:

1. What is the name of our new president?  What number president is he?

2. Can you use the following words in a sentence? Made, each, they, good, like

Have a nice weekend!

 Sincerely,

Mrs. Lyman