First Grade Newsletter!
Week of 1/6-1/10
WELCOME BACK: Important Reminders
We are so excited to welcome your kiddos back for 2nd semester of first grade!
Reminder: NO SCHOOL for students on Monday: 1/6
School resumes Tuesday 1/7
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:
1/6: TEACHER WORK DAY
1/8: ACCESS Testing begins for ESOL students
1/16: 1st-5th Semester Awards
1/20: NO SCHOOL: Federal Holiday
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 continued our Unit 2: Creature Features, and begin reading the book "What Do You Do with a Tail Like This!"
Phonics: Students continued working on glued sounds, focusing on /NK/, and identifying long versus short vowel sounds.
Social Studies: We finished up our Holidays around the World unit.
Writing: Students continued building their knowledge and skills in writing an informational paragraph. Focusing on building a complete paragraph with a topic sentence and conclusion.
Math: We reviewed and took our Quarter 2 Assessment.
What we will learn this week:
Reading: We will be finishing up our unit 2: Creature Features, with our final text "Never Smile at a Monkey", looking at how animals use their unique features.
Phonics: Students will be doing a review over needed phonics skills learned in the first semester.
Science: We will be beginning our new science unit on magnets.
Writing: Students will be finishing 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 will be beginning our unit 4 in math: Exploring meaningful measurements. We will be looking at measuring with nonstandard units, telling time, and counting coins.
From our ESOL:
Please keep reading everyday as it will help your student continue to grow and learn.
Also check out the link below for some ideas on how to incorporate writing practice at home as well. Writing is one of the more difficult skills to master as a multilingual learner, so any extra practice will benefit your child.
English: https://www.colorincolorado.org/article/developing-writing-and-spelling-home
Spanish: https://www.colorincolorado.org/es/articulo/c%C3%B3mo-ayudar-su-ni%C3%B1o-con-la-escritura-en-casa
From EIP: Ms. Reed
Balancing Equations: Students must learn to understand what the equal sign means. It DOES NOT mean the answer. The equal sign acts as a balance scale. It means, “the same as”. Students need to understand there should be the same amount on both sides of the equal sign. When both sides are the same, that is called “true”. When one side is more or less than the other, that is called “false”. Help your child practice balancing equations by using the videos and activity below.
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.

