SMALL GROUP WEEKLY UPDATE
Week of December 9 - 13
Our Team Members
SC1: Dr. Gitau and Ms. Gay
SC2: Mrs. Bassery and Ms. Hurley
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
Our Curriculum
SC1 and SC2
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.
SC3 and SC6
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.
For more information on our wonderful curriculums please visit the links below:
Areas of Learning for December 9 - 13
Dr. Gitau:
* Reading: Who Would I Be?
* Letter and Sound Identification: Letter N
* Math: Counting and Cardinality
* Science: Animal Characteristics
* Social Studies: Map Skills
Mrs. Bassery:
* Reading: The Three Little Pigs (K-2), Beauty and the Beast (3-5)
* Phonics: Identify letter P (K-2), Decode Y as a vowel (3-5)
* Math: Measurement and Data
* Science: Animal Characteristics
Ms. Turnbull:
*Wit & Wisdom: Module 2 lessons 11-14
*Morphology <spire>
*UFLI: /c/; -all, -oll, -ull
*Math: Fractions
*Social Studies: Turn of the century, inventors and inventions from the early 1900s
Mrs. Banks:
1st Grade
*Reading: Identify the key details and main topic & signal unknown words
*Phonics: Reading and spelling words with the -ge pattern (“soft” sound of g)
*ELA: Informative Writing – creating a topic sentence
*Math: Shapes – (making equal shares & attributes)
*Science: Holidays around the world
2nd Grade
*Reading: Identify the key details and main topic & signal unknown words
*Phonics: Reading and spelling words with the -ge pattern (“soft” sound of g)
*ELA: Informative Writing
*Math: Subtraction Strategies
*Science: Matter
Visual Cooking
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!
Save the Date
- December 2 - 6: MAP Winter Testing Window
- December 9 – 13: MAP Winter Testing Window
- December 12: Pictures with Santa during school day
- December 19: PTA Meeting and Holiday Performance 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
- December 23 – January 6: Holiday Break
- January 7 - Students return to School!
Reminders
- 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.
