Welcome back and Happy New Year!

This week and next we will be enjoying the story, The Kite and our strategy focus will be monitoring and clarifying a story. Our comprehension strategy will be looking at cause and effect in a story.

In phonics, we will be focusing on words with the long /i/ sound and we will also be studying contractions. Please help your child find contractions when you are doing your nightly reading.

I will continue teaching phonograms, one at a time, to the class. Knowing these will really help your child with his/her reading and writing.

Our new word wall words are.......only, or, every, girl, one

As part of our social studies curriculum, we are starting our study of famous Americans starting with Martin Luther King Jr. We will study a different famous American each week. My hope is that you will read books at home about famous Americans also and look for book about famous Americans when you make your weekly trips to the public library.

In math, we will be working in Chapter two which covers place value, ones and tens. This is a difficult concept for most students so please give as much help at home as you can. I appreciate it!