Check over your child's homework each night. Your youngster should be able to read color words and number words one through ten. Please have your child show you his/her Study Guide daily. In this notebook are many of the skills that we are working on in our classroom. Kindly review this with your child. Continue to review addition and subtraction facts daily through 18. This will help your child develop "Fact Power." Please review spelling and sight words each night. Make sure to review the old words as well as the new ones. Encourage your youngster to write sentences with these words and he/she can earn a gold slip. Try to read twenty minutes each night. Ask your child about a "just right book." Try to find one at home and enjoy watching the "magic" that occurs as your child's reading ability improves. Let me know about the results and a gold slip can be earned for your child. Your youngster should bring to school 5 sharpened pencils each day. We will have homework daily. However, there will be no homework over the weekend or vacations.