Dear Parents,

Happy Tuesday!  We started our day working on some handwriting, concentrating on the letter b. When your firstie writes letters and words at home, please remind them that letters NEVER start from the bottom.  I am still seeing some students do this and we will just continue to practice. Thank you for your help at home with this; keeping your eyes on their progress as well.  

I will be sending home a 1^st grade devotional binder (It’s red!) that will travel from home to home for a couple of weeks.  In the binder, there are Veggietale family devotions and there is also a book that a college friend of mine wrote, entitled “Our Faith from A to Z”.  It is up to you which devotionals you do as a family (Or even just with your firstie!), or if you read the book or not.  I am not going to keep track!  I just wanted to give you another resource to do devotionals with your family. When your firstie receives it please keep it no more than two weeks and then send it back in so that it can go to another family.  I am sending it home with Allyson Roth today.  I hope that you are able to glean something good from spending some time in devotions with your family. 

We are learning about double consonants at the end of a word and ck together.  Ask your firstie about this!  Ask them what happens when you have double consonants at the end of the word….what does one do? 

We have started using our ipads!  I am sure that your firstie has shared this with you….LOL.  We use them a few times a week.  Right now they are exploring a couple different apps including; Spelling City, Epic, Hungry Fish, Letter Rip, Jumbled Sentences, Toontasic, Puppet Pals, and we have even used a QR scanner for a short vowel review.  

This chapter in Math is very short so we will be having our test later this week. There will be NO Math Choice Board for this chapter (Because it is SO short!).

Keep those donations for Aaron’s Gifts From Home coming in!  Thank you for giving to our troops overseas!  

Tomorrow is Library Day.  Just as a reminder, each firstie is allowed to choose two books; an AR book and a Fun book.  I have had two firsties sign up to take their AR tests.  I need your help to encourage your firstie to read their AR book several times and then sign up to take a test.  

Have a g-r-e-a-t rest of your day!

Blessings,

Miss Gallagher