SC1: Dr. Gitau, Ms. Gay and Ms. Hurley

SC2: Mrs. Bassery and Mrs. Abarca

SC3: Ms. Turnbull and Mrs. Speaks

SC6: Mrs. Banks and Mrs. Moore

Teacher emails:

mgitau@marietta-city.k12.ga.us

nbassery@marietta-city.k12.ga.us

eturnbull@marietta-city.k12.ga.us

tbanks@marietta-city.k12.ga.us

Visit the links below to learn more about the curriculums used by our small group classes.

Dr. Gitau and Mrs. Bassery use an adapted curriculum called enCore. There are 36 units; with each grade level having 6 units. Our classes have multiple grade levels, so we might use two units simultaneously. For example, a class might use a unit for kindergarten through second and a different unit for grades third through fifth. Each unit consist of an adapted Fiction and Nonfiction book. It takes six weeks to complete one full unit with three weeks per book.

Students learn Phonics and Language Arts skills in the areas of letters and sounds, vocabulary, sight words, word endings, such as “ing” and “ed”, prefixes and suffixes, and much more.

Learning activities for Math are provided in the areas of Counting and Cardinality, Operations & Algebraic Thinking, Measurement and Data, Time, Money, and Geometry.

Science and Social Studies activities follow grade level standards. Areas of learning include weather, living and nonliving, rules and laws, goods and services, and many more.

Dr. Gitau:

Reading: Jack and the Beanstalk

Phonics: Letter X

Math: Counting and Cardinality

Science: Parts of a Plant

Social Studies: Identify Basic Needs

Mrs. Bassery

Grades K-2: Unit 11

Reading: Little Red Riding Hood

Phonics: Identify letter W

Math: Counting and Cardinality

Science: Recycling

Social Studies: Rules and Laws

Grades 3-5: Unit 28

Reading: Alice in Wonderland

Phonics: Blend sounds into words

Math: Counting and Cardinality

Science: Identify Forms of Energy: Heat, Light, Sound

Social Studies: Holidays and Celebrations

Ms. Turnbull and Mrs. Banks use Wit and Wisdom. This is a comprehensive K-8 English Language Arts curriculum crafted to help students build their knowledge and skills.

Ms. Turnbull:

Math: GAA testing

ELA: GAA testing

Morphology: GAA testing

Science: GAA testing

Mrs. Banks:

1st Grade:

Reading: WWM3 Lessons 6 - 10

Phonics: R-Controlled (ir/ur)

ELA: Informative Writing

Math: Building Numbers

Science: Weather

2nd Grade:

Reading: WWM3 Lessons 6-10

Phonics: R-Controlled (ir/ur)

ELA: Informative Writing

Math: Shapes and their Attributes

Science: Stability and change in Plants and Animals

Mrs. Bassery’s class has some exciting news to share about their new hands-on learning opportunity! We have launched Panther Perks, a student-run coffee shop at Park Street Elementary. With teacher assistance, students take turns assembling K-cup coffee orders from our staff. Using the Panther Perks coffee cart, they go with their teacher to the different classrooms to deliver the coffee orders.

Through their participation in Panther Perks, students will develop key abilities such as:

• Following multi-step processes to complete tasks
• Order fulfillment and customer service
• Collaboration and teamwork
• Number and color recognition using a color-coded K-cup system for easy selection
• Reading comprehension and functional literacy
• Health, hygiene, and food safety best practices
• Social and communication skills in a real-world setting
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We will keep you updated on our wonderful learning project!

Cooking is an important life skill our students will need to learn. At home, you can use visual recipes to help your child begin learning these important skills!

• March 31 – April 4: Spring Book Fair
• April 7 – 11: Spring Break
• April 17: 101 Dalmatians! School Musical
• April 22: Earth Day

• Park Street is a uniform school. Below is a copy of our uniform policy. Your child is expected to be in uniform Monday-Thursday.
• Birthday parties are not permitted. However, birthday cupcakes are allowed during lunch time.
• If there is a change in transportation arrangements, we require notice from the parent before allowing students to be transported by anyone other than a parent. You may send in a note with your child or email parkstreet@marietta-city.org with the details of the change.
• When a student arrives late (after 8:30), an adult must sign the student in at the office.
• 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.