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First Grade Newsletter

Week of 1/4-1/5

First Grade Newsletter Week of 1/4-1/5

Reminders for the This Week

Welcome Back!! We hope everyone had a restful and fun holiday break!


As we come back to school and get back into our routines and rhythm. Please remind your students about school expectations, behavior, and how to be an active learner. We missed your kiddos so much and can't wait to see them!


Please remember to send your students to school wearing their uniform clothes and sneakers each day. Students should also have a change of clothes in their backpacks in the case of an accident.


Please remember to send in excuses when your student is out sick.


We understand that things happen and transportation changes occur. Please let your students teacher or the front office know of any transportation changes before 2:30pm. Last minute transportation changes make it difficult for your student's teachers to get your student where they need to be for dismissal in a timely and effective manner.

Coming up:

1/9-1/12: Winter MAP Test (Math and ELA)

1/15: NO SCHOOL (MLK Day)

1/29-2/9: Valentines Grams Fundraiser

2/19-2/23: Winter Break (No School)

3/1: Coffee with the Principal 8:30am

Meet the Team Meet the Team

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Ms. Kuranda

mkuranda@marietta-city.k12.ga.us
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Mrs. Gonzalez-Soto

mgonzalez-soto@marietta-city.k12.ga.us
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Mrs. Sanchez

nsanchez@marietta-city.k12.ga.us
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Mrs. Sato

asato@marietta-city.k12.ga.us
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Ms. Reed: EIP Support

areed@marietta-city.k12.ga.us
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Mrs. Rakestraw: ESOL Support

arakestraw@marietta-city.k12.ga.us
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Ms. Flanagin: Reading Specialist

lflanagin@marietta-city.k12.ga.us

From Ms. Flanagin our Reading Specialist

A list of high frequency words may be coming home with your student if they have been struggling with these words. Please practice this EVERY night.

What we learned this past week:

Reading:

-We finished up our unit on Stories from Around the World with a holiday focus.

Social Studies:

-We began looking at character traits and historical figures who embody those traits.

Phonics:

-We worked on syllable types and compound words.

Writing:

-We worked on sentence expansion, and basic conjunctions.

Math:

-We finished up our Unit 3 on 2D and 3D shapes, patterns, and non-standard units of measurement. We took our district math assessments over unit 2 and 3.

Inside Our Classrooms: Inside Our Classrooms:

What we will learn this week:

Reading:

-We will be working on our fairy tales and poetry unit.

Social Studies:

-We will continue discussing character traits and historical figures who embody those traits.

Phonics:

-We will continue on syllable types, as well as three consonant endings.

Writing:

-We will begin our narrative writing unit.

Math:

-We will begin our unit 4.

How to Help at Home:

High frequency words/ heart words students should know how to spell and read:


It is incredibly important that your student is able to read and spell these words. We are seeing that students that do not know them, are having their reading fluency impeded.


was, said, they, their, there, were, where, any, many, want, walk, talk, very, does, would, could, should, my, by, who, one, once, two, been, into, goes


We add new words to this list each week, if your student can fluently read and spell a word. At the end of the year students should be able to read and spell 125 High Frequency words (including the "heart words" or irregularly spelled words.)


It is a great time to work on your child's reading fluency. To do this, have your student read the same passage or story several times. This helps with students being able to read familiar words in a fluent manner, which can assist in reading and oral comprehension as well as their oral language skills.


Work on measuring with non-standard units of measurement. This means measuring with things that are not normally intended for measuring (blocks, paperclips, etc.)

This is easy to do at home! Grab an object and some beans, paperclips, or pieces of pasta. Ask your student how long they think it is using these measuring tools.


Please review fact families, false equations and adding and subtracting fluency to prepare for the district assessments


Below is a at home choice board for additional homework!

Homework Gameboard/Choice Board

Homework Gameboard/Choice Board

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High Frequency Word List:

Students should be able to read and spell 120 words on this list by the end of first grade.

Each quarter the amount that the student is graded on goes up. For quarter 2, students were graded on if they were able to read and write 64 high frequency words.

Online Educational Games for Free!

Teach Your Monster: Free Phonics, Reading and Mathematics Games

Teach Your Monster: Free Phonics, Reading and Mathematics Games

Help children learn with our free, award-winning reading, mathematics and phonics games.

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Starfall Education: Kids Games, Movies, Books & Music for K-5 and above

Starfall Education: Kids Games, Movies, Books & Music for K-5 and above

At Starfall, children have fun while they learn - specializing in reading, phonics & math - educational games, movies, books, songs, and more for children K-5 and above.

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Nonstandard Measurement

From Our Wonderful Support Teachers! From Our Wonderful Support Teachers!

Mrs. Rakestraw: ESOL

Hey!

Can you add the following this week and next week as well, please? Thank you! (you’re already reminding them of Turkey Bingo where they can win a free turkey, right? I won’t reiterate that in my section if you are!)

WELCOME! ¡BIENVENIDOS! BEM-VINDO!

Families:

Please click below to view important information about our Marietta City Schools Welcome ESOL Families event that took place on November 2nd.

(English)

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1YUSF1PNqiWMav4k2Yi1vAXl7Gr3uCalFeYpGj6ObwQg/edit#slide=id.g170dd3c78fa_3_11

(Spanish)

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-bSY6ix8x6wGqbMBpNwvBHVw-GUZLjy7LU1E3LVlk9Q/edit#slide=id.ge602c6f5ae_0_0

(Portuguese)

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1EFJct58BJzvi1uC1hdaP5-cZQiqXNcVNRjjCc5pSzTM/edit#slide=id.ge602c6f5ae_0_0

1st Guest Reader Sign Up

1st Guest Reader Sign Up

Sign up to read to your child's class here. The school will call to plan a day/time. Thank you! Regístrese para leer en la clase de su hijo aquí. La escuela llamará para planificar un día/hora. ¡Gracias!

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Ms. Reed: EIP

Fact Families: fact families are related addition and subtraction facts that use the same numbers. Fact families help kids understand the relationship between addition and subtraction. For example, using the numbers 8, 5, and 13, students can produce two addition number sentences and 2 related subtraction sentences.

See the fact family and video below.


5 + 8 = 13

8 + 5 = 13

13 - 5 = 8

13 - 8 = 5


BrainPop Jr: Fact Families

From DLI:

Dear DLI families,


Please continue working on math facts, letter sounds, syllables, and sentence formation in both English and Spanish.

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Upcoming Events Upcoming Events

Uniform Reminder

All students are expected to be in uniform. Students may wear jeans or Marietta or Park Street gear any day. Please make sure that jeans do not have holes in them. Also please have your students bring a jacket to school if they get cold easily. While it is hot outside, it can get chilly inside the school building.


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

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