Report Cards!

It's that time of year again...report card time! I'm happy to report on your child's successes and hope you're eager to find out how your child operates at school! The first and second grade classes are sending home report cards on Monday so you should be looking in your child's homework bag for this quarter's report. With all of the wonderful things your child can now do, I hope that reading is still a priority each night. It's easy to skip, but the best way to skills fresh. Read, read, read!

I have to say, it was a very strange thing to be using an UMBRELLA today as I made my way into school on January 27th! The class is hoping for snow and frankly, so am I!

Our penguin unit is well under way and the class is very excited to learn about each penguin. So far they've learned about the king penguin and the rockhopper. Ask you child to tell you about each penguin.

Today the class took the unit 6 Fundations assessment. Even though the class did pretty well overall, there were several skills which need more work and we'll be reviewing unit 6 again this week. At this point in the year, children should be using capitals at the beginning of most sentences and punctuation at the end of sentences. Even during this very controlled situation, many kids are forgetting to use capitals and punctuation. So we'll...practice, practice, practice!

On the subject of spelling...the trick words are getting trickier and trickier! And each week there are three new words to learn! Eek! So I found a website which I think your children might like to use at home and may help with spelling, especially the trick words. The site is called "Spelling City". I'm able to make spelling lists for each unit and by need. Click here to go to Spelling City. Once on their site, you'll see blue tabs...the first says "Home" and the second says "Find a list". Click on "Find a list." A red label says "Find a list" and below that it says "advanced search." Enter the name "Miss Lass" and it is set to look for teacher's name. Once you find me, click on my name. Now you can scroll down and should see the four lists I've made so far. Where is says "Unit 6 List 1" you will find phonetically regular words for this unit. List 2 simply has more words to practice. None of these are "the" spelling words for the week. Kids learn a skill, not a list of words. The list called "Trick Words Cumulative" includes ALL trick words taught this year. The list titled "Trick Words Unit 6" only has the nine words taught this unit. If you only allow a certain amount of time online for your child, I'd try the trick word lists first. They're the hardest to learn! We only have access to the free activities but the kids don't seem to mind! Enjoy!

Have a great weekend!