First Grade Newsletter!
Week of 10/21-10/25
Important Reminders
Next week is Red Ribbon Week. Information about themed days will be coming home in your students folders.
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.
Upcoming Events
Coming up:
10/28-11/1: Red Ribbon Week
11/5: NO SCHOOL: Teacher Work Day
11/20: Thanksgiving Lunch
11/21: Turkey Bingo
11/25-11/29: NO SCHOOL: Thanksgiving Break
12/12: Spelling Bee
12/12: Shop with a Cop
12/13: Pictures with Santa
12/19: PTA Holiday Performance (6:00)
12/21-1/6: Holiday Break
1/6: Teacher Work 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:
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.
Practice word problems at home!
examples: "We have five apples and two bananas, how many pieces of fruit do we have in all?"
Take your students to the store and practice word problems as you shop!
Practice identifying the tens and ones in 2 digit numbers!
Practice skip counting by 2s, 5s, 10s, and 25!
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.
Talk about different character traits and how different people around them show these character traits
(fairness, respect for others, respect for the environment, courage, equality, tolerance, perseverance, and commitment) to connect with our Social Studies unit on Historical Figures.
Inside Our Classrooms:
What we learned this past week:
Reading: This week we will be connected stories and details to compare and contrast story elements. Students integrated this knowledge into their unit writing assignment.
Phonics: Students learned about suffixes starting with -ed and -ing.
Writing: Students integrated their knowledge learned over our unit 1 into their writing and be working on revising and editing their work.
Math: We continued our unit 2, working on addition strategies and working on word problems.
What we will learn this week:
Reading: We are finishing up our unit on Books around the World, and will be be getting ready to start our new unit on Creature Features.
Phonics: Students will learn about syllables and compound words.
Social Studies: We will continue our Historical Figures unit talking about Sacagawea and Theodore Roosevelt.
Writing: Students will be integrating their knowledge learned over our unit 1 into their writing and be working on revising and editing their work and sharing feedback with peers.
Math: We will review for our quarter 1 assessment.
From our ESOL:
Reading at home is so important to help your child learn. Reading in your native language is just as important as reading in English.
Please read the following article on how reading in your native language helps your child actually become a better reader.
From Our Reading Specialist
Hello Park Street Families,
It’s Ms. Flanagin, 1st grade reading specialist. This is a reminder to set aside a time each night to read and talk with your child. Did you know sharing stories from your childhood is a great way to introduce them to new vocabulary and build their background knowledge?
Storytelling is fun, but it can also help kids learn to read, and kids enjoy hearing real tales from a parent’s life. This video tells why beginning readers love to hear stories about a parent’s childhood. A parent’s stories help children learn new vocabulary, story structure, and comprehension. Enjoy this special time with your child!
Link to video: https://youtu.be/RRiJOY9oQOU
From EIP: Ms. Reed
Fact Fluency: It is crucial for students to be able to add and subtract fluently within 10 using a variety of strategies. Using dice and playing cards (remove the face cards) are fun tools to use for addition and subtraction. Below are a few creative and fun ways for your child to practice their fact fluency.
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.

