First Grade Newsletter!
Week of 1/27-1/31
Important Reminders
Please make sure your students know how they are going home, and to let the front office know/ your child's teacher know if there are any changes.
Please make sure that your children have their bus tag on their backpacks each day.
Upcoming Events
Coming up:
1/8: ACCESS Testing begins for ESOL students
2/17-2/21: Winter Break
Meet the Team
Ms. Kuranda (First grade Team Lead)
Mrs. Gonzalez-Soto
Ms. Sheilds
Mrs. Sato
Ms. Reed: EIP Support
jmanning@marietta-city.k12.ga.us
How to Help at Home:
Practice telling time with your students at home. In first grade we learn to tell time at the hour and half hour. Help them practice telling time, and referring to the time in ways like: "It is a half past 2:00"
Practice counting coins with your students, counting by 1s, 5s, 10s, and 25s.
Students should be reading at home every night.
Have students practice rereading books that they are familiar with to practice fluency, reading rate, and reading with expression.
Please have student practicing their handwriting at home. This can be as simple as having them rewrite the alphabet and numbers, practice spelling high frequency words or their family members names!
A List of High frequency words/ heart words were given at conferences along with comprehension practice! These are easy things to work on at home!
Go over high frequency words with your students like:
the, I, a, said, to, do, of, see, he, be, me, from, look, book, are, was, you, what, have, your, want, no, go, so, goes, says, she, we, talk, walk, were, could, would, should, or, for,
MyPath
All students have access to MyPath through their Schoology/ Clever. Students can access targeted reading and math activities based on their needs on their phone, ipad, or computer. Students should utilize this over Thanksgiving break!
MyPath is the application that is connected to the students MAP test scores. So students are given a pathway based on the areas that they need to continue working on. The steps are below.
1. From the Marietta City Schools Webpage, Go to schoology. Log in should be your students lunch number and their password is their birthday in the format (MMDDYYYY)
2. Go to the waffle icon in the top right corner and hit Clever
3. Hit the rainbow "G" to login with google.
4. In the search bar type "MyPath". (There should be a reading and math option)
- or look for the icons already made to favorites on the main Clever Screen.
Inside Our Classrooms:
What we learned before the break:
Reading: We finished up our unit 2: Creature Features, with our students writing an informational paragraph about an animal with a unique feature.
Phonics: Students reviewed our soft c and soft g rules.
Science: We finished our unit on magnets.
Writing: Students finished up our informational writing unit, with the end goal of students using their gained knowledge to write an end of module, 5 sentence informational paragraph about an animal of their choosing.
Math: We continued our unit 4 in math: Exploring meaningful measurements. We worked on telling time this week!
What we will learn this week:
Reading: We will be beginning out unit 3: Powerful Forces, discussing narrative stories and how the weather can give us different feelings.
Phonics: We will begin learning about our R-Controlled vowels, starting with /-ar/ like in the words: chart, bark, part, shark
Science: We will be beginning a new unit on government. Students will be learning about patriotism, and United States' symbols.
Writing: Students will go back to learning about narrative writing and opinion writing. Students will be working on adding more detail into their writing and adding feelings to their work.
Math: We will be continuing our unit 4 in math, students will continue to work on telling time, and working on real life elapsed time word problems.
From our ESOL:
Each year, students in English learner programs take the ACCESS for ELLs language proficiency test. The test measures academic English language proficiency for students learning English in our school and throughout our state. Students will be taking the test over the next few weeks.
Teachers in our school use this information to help them make decisions about instruction for your child. Teachers also use these test scores to monitor the progress your child makes toward English proficiency.
Please reach out to me (Jmanning@marietta-city.k12.ga.us) if you have any questions.
From EIP: Ms. Reed
Time to the Hour and Half-hour
1st grade is learning how to tell time to the hour and half hour. Please help your child master these skills.
First, help them practice counting by 5’s all the way to 60. You can use this counting by 5s video to help you.
When the minute hand is pointing directly at the 12 that means “o’ clock”. The hour hand will be pointing directly at an hour, such as 2. In this case, the time would be 2 o’ clock or 2:00.
When the minute hand is pointing directly at the 6 that means half-past ( :30) and the hour hand will be between hours. For example, if the minute hand is pointing directly at the 6 and the hour hand is between 2 and 3 it is half-past 2 or 2:30 or two-thirty.
PTA School Spirit Store
At the Givebacks link below you will find our PTA School Spirit Store! Please check it out! All proceeds come right back to Park Street!
Uniform Reminder
Reminder that all students should be wearing tennis shoes every day.

