The book order has been placed. Thank you for your orders. It will take about a week for the books to arrive. They will be delivered to the school and I will distribute them to students.

For letter K day, we traced and cut out triangles to make kites. The glue was still wet by the end of the day, so they will come home tomorrow. We played an alphabet bingo game to reinforce letter recognition and students put letters together to build three-sound words. We studied punctuation marks: the period means stop, the question mark asks a question, and the exclamation mark means say it with feeling. Students have been choral reading simple sight word books each day. This "pretend" reading really builds their skills!

We started two new things today: speed reading and math journals. For one minute, students read the alphabet letters they have already learned, to give them repeated practice in letter recognition. They underlined the letter on which they stopped. They will try to beat their time each day. They seemed to enjoy it! I was so impressed with the math journals. Students were asked to draw a box with a ball inside, and everyone did it correctly!

Thursday is Constitution Day, but we will celebrate it tomorrow. We will read a book called We the Kids, which defines the constitution in kid-friendly language. We will also draft our own classroom constitution to reinforce the concept.