Lines in the world

Dear Mom and Dad:

We read a story called “Bad Day At Riverbend” by Chris Van Allsburg. We did not read the ending though and had to come with our own idea as to what the ending will be. Ask me to tell you what the story was about and what I wrote as my ending. Then ask me to tell you what the ending was in the story. We continue to work on sentence structure and that our sentences need to make sense. This weekend ask me to write you a sentence. Grade 1’s should be able to have the correct spelling for word wall words, capital letter at the beginning of my sentences, finger spaces and periods. Grade 2’s should be writing detailed sentences and can be adding more than one idea into a sentence. We can use transition words such as: because, then, before, after etc.

We talked about what lines are and where we can find lines. We noticed that lines are EVERYWHERE! They are found in all objects and we can find lines on our bodies as well. We spent some time at the end of the day listening to calming art music as we drew lines in our journals. We first had to practice copying some lines to help us take a closer look at details. They were simple lines at first and then got harder and harder.

Question of the day: What lines have you discovered over the weekend. Tell us what kind of lines they are and where you found them.

Love,

The Rainbow Triad

Housekeeping:

Fun lunch is on Wednesday Jan 28.

Keep asking me about my words of the week!

Grade 1: down, find, for, funny, go

Grade 2: best, both, call, cold, does

Please go over these words with me. I should be able to find these words in books and the environment and spell the words as well.

Please sign the report card envelopes and return it back to the school with your child. Thank you.