First Grade Newsletter
Week of 4/22-4/26
Reminders for the This Week
Please remember that school starts at 8:20am. All students are expected in their classrooms at this time.
Please remember to send in excuses when your student is out sick.
Please have students bring a water bottle to school.
Uniform Reminder
All students are expected to be in uniform. Students may wear jeans or Marietta or Park Street gear any day. Please make sure that jeans do not have holes in them.
Reminder that all students should be wearing tennis shoes every day. We know students like to wear CROCs and sandals once it gets warmer outside. Crocs are not a part of the uniformed dress at Park Street, as well as it can be a safety risk. Students often trip in these shoes, and they come off of student's feet easily.
Upcoming Events
Coming up:
4/29-5/3: Spanish MAP (math) Assessment for DLI
5/6-5/10: Teacher Appreciation Week
5/21: Awards Day (More information to come)
5/23: Last Day of School
Transportation
Tardy Drop-Off
When a student arrives late (after 8:30), an adult must sign the student in at the office.
Early Pick-Up
Please limit early pick-up of children to emergencies and appointments. If a child is out for any portion of the school day, the missed time is recorded as a tardy. A note sent in the morning will help us to have your child ready. To avoid interruptions to instruction, no student will be released between 2:45 and 3:15. Parents will be asked to wait for the dismissal bell. Come to the office to check out a student. Please be prepared to present photo identification upon request. No student will be released to an unknown or unauthorized person.
Meet the Team
Ms. Kuranda
Mrs. Gonzalez-Soto
Mrs. Sanchez
Mrs. Sato
Ms. Reed: EIP Support
Mrs. Rakestraw: ESOL Support
From Our Reading Specialist:
Please make sure you are reading with your student each night! We are working on comprehension and fluency within our reading! Ask questions about what your child is reading, what the main idea is, and key details!
From Mrs. Rakestraw (ESOL)
Parents, would you like to be a guest reader in your child’s classroom? We will provide you with a book in Spanish to read to your child’s class! You may also read a bilingual book to the class with your child’s teacher if you would like to (you would read the Spanish words and your child’s teacher would read the English words). Please sign up below if you are interested and your child’s teacher will reach out to you to schedule a time to come in!
1st grade link:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1PkcY9ZlAKAmR_7Jyr_iT51kYrCjuwQzPUqWaUYiANSw/edit
Inside Our Classrooms:
What we learned this past week:
-We continued reviewing for MAP assessments and began our new Knowledge Based Unit on Economics.
Phonics:
-We learned about vowel teams focusing on our /oo/ sound in words as well as -oo making the sound for a long /u/.
Writing:
-Students began brainstorming key details on a variety of topics to use in paragraph writing.
Math:
-We continued with math MAP review this week to prepare for the MAP assessments, and we resumed our unit 5 in solving real world problems.
What we will learn this week:
-We will work on our Knowledge Based Unit on Economics.
Phonics:
-We will learning about vowel teams focusing on our ew /ū/, ui /ū/, ue /ū/ and vowel team review
Writing:
-Students will begin creating their own topic sentences.
Math:
-We will continue our unit 5 in solving real world problems.
From DLI:
Dear DLI Families
In preparation for MAP assessments in both English and Spanish, please continue to work with your students on reading and math concepts in both English and Spanish.
As we move into the end of the year, we will be focusing on our reading fluency, writing fluency, and math fluency. Students need to be able to use their skills to read and write. In math are working on unit 5 which is focused on word problems. Please work on reading with your student every night, letter formation and spelling, as well as math fluency.
How to Help at Home
Work on suffixes with your students such as: -ed, -s, -es, -ing, -est and -er and when to use them!
High frequency words/ heart words students should know how to spell and read:
It is incredibly important that your student is able to read and spell these words. We are seeing that students that do not know them, are having their reading fluency impeded.
was, said, they, their, there, were, where, any, many, want, walk, talk, very, does, would, could, should, my, by, who, one, once, two, been, into, goes, about, because, friend, woman, women, again, have, when, here, you, your, done, move, four, forty, fourth, people, pretty, nothing, person, mother, brother, father, water, today, other, another
We add new words to this list each week, if your student can fluently read and spell a word. At the end of the year students should be able to read and spell 125 High Frequency words (including the "heart words" or irregularly spelled words.)
Please see below the standard that will be graded on for Q4.
High Frequency Word List:
Students should be able to read and spell 125 words on this list by the end of first grade.
Each quarter the amount that the student is graded on goes up. For quarter 3, students were graded on if they were able to read and write 98 high frequency words. At the end of Quarter 4, students will be graded on if they know 125 or more high frequency words. Please see below for clarification.