Your child will be bringing home another letter book. Please ask them to read it to you, pointing to the words as they read. This helps them to recognize the words. I am testing students on their letter recognition so I can report that information to you at the time of your conference. If you feel that your child needs work in this area, make some alphabet flash cards out of index cards. Most of them know uppercase letters pretty well, but many of them need to work on recognizing lowercase letters. In sign language, students learned to sing and sign the "green" song. Students received writing journals today. Their first entry was, "I have a ____." and they sounded out one word. They had to make their picture match their sentence, begin with an uppercase letter, and end with punctuation. I will show you their journal at your conference. I will mail our penpal letters to the class in Canada this afternoon. We enclosed 2 postcards, one of the view of downtown Billings from the Rims and a general "beauty shot" of the mountains. Tomorrow is our Bus Safety lesson and bus ride!