First Grade Newsletter!
Week of 11/4-11/8
Important Reminders
Reminder that there is NO SCHOOL Tuesday, November 5 for election day.
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:
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.
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.
Talk about different animals that you see in and around your neighborhood. What features are unique about these animals?
Inside Our Classrooms:
What we learned this past week:
Reading: We started our new unit on Creature Features. Talking about animals unique features and how their features help them survive.
Phonics: Students reviewed some foundational skills that they hadn't fully grasped yet like our soft c/g sounds.
Social Studies: We finished up our Historical Figures unit talking about George Washington Carver and Ruby Bridges.
Writing: Students learned about the different parts of an informational writing piece, learning about the topic sentence, details, and conclusion. Students created a pre-assessment informational writing piece on an animal.
Math: We worked on fact families, balancing equations, and word problems with missing addends.
What we will learn this week:
Reading: We will be discussing fables like the Tortoise and the Hare, and the Ant and the Grasshopper.
Phonics: Students will be reviewing their CVCe (magic e) rules in words and when to use it.
Science: We will begin our new science unit on light and sound.
Writing: Students will start learning how to create the parts of an informational writing piece, focusing on the topic sentence.
Math: We will be be working on adding with 3 addends, and working on two step addition word problems.
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. Did you know the Cobb County library has hundreds of books for children? All you need is a library card! The steps to getting a library card are as easy as 1-2-3!
See the link below.
https://www.cobbcounty.org/library/card-account
Enjoy our time at one of the many locations around the city!
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.

