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
Ms. Kuranda
Mrs. Gonzalez-Soto
Mrs. Sanchez
Mrs. Sato
Ms. Reed: EIP Support
Mrs. Rakestraw: ESOL Support
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:
-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:
What we will learn this week:
-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!
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.
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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)
(Spanish)
(Portuguese)
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
From DLI:
Dear DLI families,
Please continue working on math facts, letter sounds, syllables, and sentence formation in both English and Spanish.
Upcoming Events
Uniform Reminder
Reminder that all students should be wearing tennis shoes every day.

