Students will need headphones (that plug into the computer) by August 27th for MAP testing.

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 pack a change of clothes for your students to keep in their backpacks. While we take many bathroom breaks throughout the day, accidents happen! By having a change of clothes in your students bag, it insures that your student has clothes they are comfortable changing into incase an accident happens. It also supports our clinic, who may be running low on extra clothes.

8/21: Boy Scout Sign Up (6:00pm)

8/21-8/27: Vision2Learn Eye Exams

8/27-8/20: MAP Testing

9/2: NO SCHOOL: Labor Day

9/6: Grandparents Day Lunch

9/19: Fall Picture Day

9/23-9/27: FALL BREAK: NO SCHOOL

Please go through the presentation from our open house.

Get information about school and classroom rules, curriculum, testing dates and more.

Subitizing: subitizing is the ability to instantly recognize a number of objects without actually counting them. This helps your child build strong number sense skills. Watch the video below to help your child practice subitizing at home.

Jack Hartmann-subitize

Hello Park Street Parents,

This is Ms. Flanagin, reading specialist for 1st grade. This week I been busy helping assess students on their foundational reading skills. I look forward to working with your children during their small group reading time!

Ways to help at home:

• Make time to read to your child each night. Ask them to locate the characters and setting (where the story takes place).
• Talk to your children. Each time you go to the grocery store or on a walk or for a drive in the car expose them to new words. This will help increase their vocabulary and give them a scaffold to support new learning.

· Teach phonemic awareness. Young children may not hear the sounds within words. Thus, they hear “dog,” but not the “duh”-“aw”- “guh.” To become readers, they have to learn to hear these sounds (or phonemes). Play language games with your child. For instance, say a word, perhaps a name, and then change it by one phoneme: Jen-Pen, Jen-Hen, Jen-Men. Or, just break a word apart: chair… ch-ch-ch-air. Follow this link to learn more about language development milestones in children.

• Limit screen time. Turn off screens during dinner and one hour before bed.

Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions. lflanagin@marietta-city.k12.ga.us

Students should be reading at home every night.

Practice adding and subtracting problems within 10 and 20! Use things at home like beans, dried pasta, grapes, to help them add and take away!

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

Make sure your students know how to preform self care acts: buttoning their pants, wiping their face, blowing their nose.

Check out The Reading Buddies:

https://www.thereadingleague.org/reading-buddies/

Brains On Podcast:

https://www.brainson.org/

Here are two videos to start practicing the Spanish alphabet and numbers at home!

Check out: Arbol ABC at arbolabc.com

Reading: We began our first real module in our new reading curriculum "A World of Books". This unit inspires kids' love for reading with exciting stories. They travel to new places and meet different characters whose lives are changed by books. They also explore art, read stories like "Tomás and the Library Lady" and "Waiting for the Biblioburro," and learn how books bring happiness and change to kids everywhere. The module ends with students writing their own stories, celebrating the power of reading.

Phonics: We began learning more about digraphs. Digraphs are two consonants that make one sound. This week we learned about -ck and -sh.

Writing: We are incorporating writing throughout our day with responses to text and questions. We have worked on our writing stamina, going from writing to finish a sentence, to writing complete sentences on our own.

Math: We be continuing our Unit 1 in math: Extending number sequence understanding to build compare and interpret numbers within 120. This week we made tens, teen numbers, and worked on place value.

Social Studies: We will be continuing our Social Studies unit on geography. This week we learned about landforms: Mountains, Valleys, and Rivers and more!

Reading: We will continue our first module in our new reading curriculum "A World of Books". This unit inspires kids' love for reading with exciting stories. They travel to new places and meet different characters whose lives are changed by books. They also explore art, read stories like "Tomás and the Library Lady" and "Waiting for the Biblioburro," and learn how books bring happiness and change to kids everywhere. The module ends with students writing their own stories, celebrating the power of reading.

Phonics: We will continue learning more about digraphs. Digraphs are two consonants that make one sound. This week we will learn about -th and -ch.

Writing: We will begin writing full sentences on our own through responses to reading, retelling stories, and working on sentence structure.

Math: We be continuing our Unit 1 in math: Extending number sequence understanding to build compare and interpret numbers within 120. This week we will be taking a deep dive into place value, tens, and ones.

Social Studies: We will be continuing our Social Studies unit on geography. This week we will be learning about continents and oceans.

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!

All students are expected to be in uniform. Fridays "Spirit Days" are the only days students should be out of uniform, on these days, students are still expected to wear Marietta/Park Street gear and be weather and school appropriate.

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