First Grade Newsletter!
Week of 3/3-3/7
Important Reminders
Please make sure that if your student is out, that they bring a note with them when they return to school.
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:
3/7: Coffee with the Principal 8:30am
3/20: Math Family Night
3/28: Career Day
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.
What we learned this week:
Reading: We continued our unit 3: Powerful Forces, discussing narrative stories and how the weather can give us different feelings.
Phonics: We began learning about vowel teams. Two or more letters that pair up to make a long vowel sound. This week we will be working on /-ai/ and /-ay/ like in the words: say, play, wait, train
Science: We continued our unit on weather Students will be learning about weather patterns, clouds, and climate vs. temperature.
Writing: Students continued 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 continued our unit 4 in math, students will begin working on money.
What we will learn this week:
Reading: We will be continuing our unit 3: Powerful Forces, discussing narrative stories and how the weather can give us different feelings.
Phonics: We will be learning about vowel teams. Two or more letters that pair up to make a long vowel sound. This week we will be working on /-oa/ and /-ow/ like in the words: show, snow, boat, moat
Science: We will be looking at different types of weather.
Writing: Students will continue 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 finishing our unit 4 in math, students will begin working on money.
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.
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.

