We are looking forward to starting Quarter 2! Report cards will be sent home this week along with an invite to conference week with your day and time, so make sure you are checking your students folders. Any concerns regarding report cards will be discussed during conference week.

If your student is sick and misses school, please send a note so that your student's absence is not marked unexcused.

Please Note:

Conference week is 10/16-10/20. ASP will be open for individuals that need students to attend due to conference week having shortened school days. During conference week we have early dismissal at 1:15pm. Students will still eat lunch at school.

Please remember to send your students with a water bottle, and tennis shoes every day! We do a lot of running and playing and we want to make sure your student is prepared.

Please note the dress code section at the bottom of this newsletter.

10/12: PTA Math Night

10/16-10/20: Book Fair

10/16-10/20: Conference Week

10/23-10/27: Red Ribbon Week

11/3: Coffee with the Principal 8:30am

11/7: No School (Election Day)

11/15: First Grade Thanksgiving Lunch (Check with your students teacher for their lunch time)

11/20-11/24: Thanksgiving Break

Reading: We are started our new unit on Plants and Animals and their needs.

Phonics: In phonics we are continued with digraphs. Digraphs are two letters that make one sound. We focused on -th and -ch this week.

Writing: We continued working on informational writing. Students will use their knowledge of informational writing to write about the needs of plants.

Math: In math students compared numbers in both written language and oral language. Students used their knowledge of place value to find 1 more, 1 less, 10 more, and 10 less.

Vocabulary Words for the Week:

Shelter

Nutrients

Survival

Depend

Rely

Reading: We are continuing our new unit on Plants and Animals and their needs.

Phonics: In phonics we are continuing with digraphs. Digraphs are two letters that make one sound. We will be focusing on -wh and -ph this week.

Writing: We will continue working on informational writing. Students will use their knowledge of informational writing to write about the needs of plants and animals.

Math: In math students will be working on comparing numbers in both written language and oral language. Students will use words such as: greater than, less than, equal to, to compare values and equations.

Vocabulary for the Week:

Protect

Scatter

Carnivore

Omnivore

Herbivore

Habitat

Continue to focus on building positive evening routines such as: reading together, talking about your day, and going to bed on time.

Have students start at any number between 0-120 and count on, students should be able to fluently start counting from any point by 1s and 10s.

Practice comparing numbers and balancing equations:

For example: 4+5=3+6 or 9+3>8+2

Practice adding 10 more, and taking away 10 from any number.

Make sure you and your student are going over homework and practicing concepts within the packets given out on Mondays. The homework packets represent skills that we will be working on during the week.

Parents: Did you know that your local library has many free resources available to help your child with Reading? Click below to take a look and plan your visit!

https://www.cobbcounty.org/library/learning-programs/library-pass/elementary-schools

You can help your child learn while shopping at the grocery store! Click the link below to see how!

https://www.colorincolorado.org/article/grocery-store-literacy

Skip counting: skip counting is a method of counting forwards or backwards by numbers other than 1. For example, counting by 2s looks like: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14,16, 18, 20. 1st graders need to learn how to skip count by 2, 5, and 10. Skip counting helps kids become more efficient when counting large groups of numbers. Skip counting also helps kids develop their number sense by noticing patterns in numbers. See the videos below,

Jack Hartmann-count by 2s

Jack Hartmann-count by 5s

Jack Hartmann-count by 10s

Dear DLI families,

Your student will be having a district math test called AMP on Thursday and Friday.

They will be taking it in English and Spanish.

On the other hand, we will be sending the schedule for Conference Week. Each parent/ family will be having 15-20 min schedule time to speak with the teacher about your student progress.

We hope to see you all between October 16 - 20 during Conference Week.

Please let us know if you have any question,

Sra. Gonzalez y Sra. Sra. Sanchez

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. Also please have your students bring a jacket to school if they get cold easily. While it is hot outside, it can get chilly inside the school building.

Reminder that all students should be wearing tennis shoes every day.