Grade 1 Home-School Connection Credits: pages 489, 490 A Published by Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, of McGraw-Hill Education, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., Two Penn Plaza, New York, New York 10121-2298. Copyright © by Macmillan/McGraw-Hill. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written consent of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., including, but not limited to, network storage or transmission, or broadcast for distance learning. Printed in the United States of America 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 045 10 09 08 07 AB1_FM_NAT_RD09.indd 2 3/6/07 3:38:35 PM Contents Beginning of the Year Letter in English and Spanish Unit 1 Unit 2 Week 1 Parent Letter, English . . . . . . . . . 7 Parent Letter, Spanish . . . . . . . . . 9 ▲ A Cap for Pam Can You? ▲ Fox on a Rock Little Bears Week 2 Parent Letter, English . . . . . . . . 19 Parent Letter, Spanish . . . . . . . . 21 © Macmillan/McGraw-Hill ▲ I Can, I Can! We Like Sports Week 2 Parent Letter, English . . . . . . . . 95 Parent Letter, Spanish . . . . . . . . 97 ▲ Hen’s Eggs Food from the Farm Week 3 Parent Letter, English . . . . . . . . 31 Parent Letter, Spanish . . . . . . . . 33 ▲ Jim Had a Big Hit We Grow Up Week 3 Parent Letter, English . . . . . . . . 111 Parent Letter, Spanish . . . . . . . . 113 ▲ This Fish, That Fish Birds Week 4 Parent Letter, English . . . . . . . . 47 Parent Letter, Spanish . . . . . . . . 49 ▲ Grab a Crab Rosa’s New Puppy Week 4 Parent Letter, English . . . . . . . 127 Parent Letter, Spanish . . . . . . . 129 ▲ Just for Fun! Let’s Put on a Show Week 5 Parent Letter, English . . . . . . . . 63 Parent Letter, Spanish . . . . . . . . 65 ▲ Kids Can Do It Fast! We Can Help ▲ Decodable Readers Week 1 Parent Letter, English . . . . . . . . 79 Parent Letter, Spanish . . . . . . . . 81 On-Level Books Week 5 Parent Letter,