Mrs. Watt's Weekly Newsletter

April 21 - PTA Meeting 5:45pm & Turn it in Tuesday - Blackout or Whiteout Day

April 23 - Spring Student Photos

April 30 - Kindergarten musical 5:30

May 1 - Zoo Mobile visits 1st Grade

May 4-8 - Teacher Appreciation Week

May 7 - FIELD TRIP - Folly Theatre - See Details Below

May 8 - PTA Family Fun Night - 5:30 - 7:00

May 12 - PTA Meeting 5:45pm & Turn it in Tuesday - School colors

May 15 - Field day

May 19 - 5th grade recognition program 5:30

May 19 - PreK Graduation during the day

May 22 - Last Day - Half Day

There's still a few more days to place our last scholastic book order. Use the link button above to find our class page.

ORDER DUE DATE: 4/20

CLASS CODE: TK97D

We wrapped up our unit - Vowel-R. In this unit, students will learned about vowel-r combinations. Vowel-r is also known as r-controlled vowels or bossy r.

Rule: Any vowel becomes a vowel-r when it is directly followed by the letter r. The resulting letter combination causes the vowel to make a different sound than typically expected. Sometimes we refer to r as “Bossy R” because the r bosses the other sound to make a new sound - spark, cork, germ, birthday, and burn. ir, er, ur make the same sound. The spelling -er is used most of the time. Try -er first to see if it looks right, if not, then try ur and ir. This week's focus in on /or/ - or and ore

HFW - were, over, first

This week we continued Unit 7 - Readers Use Main Idea, Details and Text Features to Better Understand Nonfiction Text

I can describe the main idea of a nonfiction text by using information I learned from text features.

Readers can use more than one text feature to learn about a topic.

Example of our thinking stem:

First I looked at the photograph.

Now I am using the caption.

I learned _________________.

First I looked at the bold (expert) word.

Now I am using the glossary.

I learned ________.

First I looked at the heading.

Now I am using the words.

I learned _____________.

This week we will started Module 6 - Part 1: Attributes of Shapes. Our focus this week:

Introduction to fractions

I can make equal shares and look for equal parts.

I can name equal shares as whole, half and fourth.

I can partition objects into halves and fourths.

This week we continued our Writer's Workshop Unit 6 - Fictional Narrative. A fictional narrative is a made-up story. We worked through using different transition words to put our story in order, continuing common illustration tricks throughout our story, and adding an ending to give our reader closure. I'm so excited to see what these creative writers decide to do in planning and writing their own fictional narrative starting next week.

Below is the list of 1st grade high frequency words by quarter that students will be accountable to read and write. The first 16 words in the 1st Quarter column have already been explicitly taught, practiced and added to our sound wall. If there is a blacked out box in the write column, this means that word is not a word for writing mastery in 1st grade. Those will be assessed for mastery on reading them in 1st but writing them in 2nd grade. Working on these words would be a great way to help support your reader and writer!! 🙂

Summer School Enrollment is now open in the Parent Power School Portal.

Additional information—including step-by-step directions and a video for families—is available on our Summer Learning website:

https://www.nkcschools.org/district/dept/summer-learning

For those families planning to send their child(ren) to summer school, here are the details:

Location: Nashua

Week 1: June 1st - June 4th

Week 2: June 8th - June 11th

Week 3: June 15th - June 18th

Week 4: June 22nd - June 25th

Student hours: 9:20am - 3:20pm

Students will be allowed to enter the building at 9:05am.

Kick-off to Kindergarten (K2K) Summer School
Incoming Kindergarten students may enroll in our Nashua Summer School K2K program. This is a 2-week program (June 1-4 and 8-11). The Kickoff to Kindergarten program offers students the chance to learn routines and procedures and become more familiar with what to expect before their very first day. Please complete this brief form ASAP to begin the K2K Summer School Enrollment process for your kindergarten student.