Hi Folks!  I hope everyone is enjoying the beautiful weather outside!  Hopefully, it'll stick around for just a little while longer.  In our first grade world this week in reading we were introduced to contractions.  This can be a difficult skill for students to grasp, so any practice at home with contractions would be a big help.  We also discussed diagraph ck and the rules that go with it ending a word or just plain k ending  a word.  We are still working on sentence building and writing complete sentences with a subject and predicate. 
         In math this week, we completed lessons 2-2 through 2-6.  Next week, we will begin lesson 2-7 and go through 2-10.  Please look for the Homelinks to come home with your child.  We use our dry erase boards everyday in math and are running short on black dry erase markers.  If you are ever out and about and think about it, please pick us up some black markers.  Thank you so much, in advance, for helping us out. 
         We have been discussing the elements of fall some more this week and even went on a nature walk outside to write down some of the signs of fall we saw.  We collected leaves and, in art, created creatures from our leaves. 
         If at all possible, please send in the ziplock bag with your child's book and reading log in it.  If we have any time in our day, I call them up one by one and have them read a few pages in their book to me.  They will each get to pick a new book every Monday or get a new one during the week if they are fluently reading the book they already had. 
         I hope you all have had a wonderful weekend, and thank you for your support.