SMALL GROUP WEEKLY UPDATE
Week of October 7 - 11
Team Members
Our small group team:
SC1: Dr. Gitau and Ms. Gay
SC2: Mrs. Bassery and Ms. Hurley
SC3: Ms. Turnbull and Mrs. Speaks
SC6: Mrs. Banks and Mrs. Moore
Our emails:
mgitau@marietta-city.k12.ga.us
nbassery@marietta-city.k12.ga.us
Our Curriculum
SC1 and SC2 Curriculum
Dr. Gitau and Mrs. Bassery use an adapted curriculum called enCore. There are 36 units; with each grade level having 6 units. Our classes have multiple grade levels, so we might use two units simultaneously. For example, a class might use a unit for kindergarten through second and a different unit for grades third through fifth. Each unit consist of an adapted Fiction and Nonfiction book. It takes six weeks to complete one full unit with three weeks per book.
Students learn Phonics and Language Arts skills in the areas of letters and sounds, vocabulary, sight words, word endings, such as “ing” and “ed”, prefixes and suffixes, and much more.
Learning activities for Math are provided in the areas of Counting and Cardinality, Operations & Algebraic Thinking, Measurement and Data, Time, Money, and Geometry.
Science and Social Studies activities follow grade level standards. Areas of learning include weather, living and nonliving, rules and laws, goods and services, and many more.
SC3 and SC6 Curriculum
Ms. Turnbull and Mrs. Banks use Wit and Wisdom. This is a comprehensive K-8 English Language Arts curriculum crafted to help students build their knowledge and skills.
For more information on our wonderful curriculums please visit the links below:
Areas of Focus - September 30 to October 4
Dr. Gitau’s class:
* Reading: Fiction story Sam and Penny (Unit 2)
* Letter and Sound Identification: Letters and sound for S/s
* Math: Counting and Cardinality
* Science: Body Parts
* Social Studies: Home and Family
Mrs. Bassery’s class:
* Reading: Fiction stories Jimmy’s Painting (Unit 8, K-2) My Inside Weather (Unit 26, 3-5)
* Letter and Sound Identification: Letters and sound for Y/y, Identify silent “e”, decode “R” controlled
vowels
* Math: Counting and Cardinality
* Social Studies: Symbols of America
Ms. Turnbull’s class:
* Wit & Wisdom: Lessons 14, 15, and 16.
* Math: Factors and multiples
* Morphology: <rupt>
* Social Studies: Citizenship
* UFLI Phonics: /n/ short a, i, o review
Mrs. Banks class:
1st Grade
* Reading: Narrative Retell, Asking & Questions, Story Elements and Character Feelings
* Phonics: Long 0 (o-e)
* ELA: Adjectives, Narrative writing
* Math: Interpreting Data, Place value
* Science: Plants and Animals
2nd Grade
* Reading: Narrative Retell, Asking & Questions, Story Elements and Character Feelings
* Phonics: Long i (i-e) & - r-controlled
* ELA: Adjectives, Narrative writing
* Math: Place value - Addition and Subtraction Strategies
* Science: Force and Motion
Areas of Focus for October 7 - 11
Dr. Gitau’s class:
* Reading: Fiction story Sam and Penny (Unit 2)
* Letter and Sound Identification: Identify letters and sound for S/s
* Math: Operations and Algebraic Thinking
* Science: Body Parts
* Social Studies: Home and Family
Mrs. Bassery’s class:
* Reading: Fiction stories Jimmy’s Painting (Unit 8, K-2) and My Inside Weather (Unit 26, 3-5)
* Letter and Sound Identification: Letters and sound for Y/y, Identify silent “e”, decode “R” controlled
vowels
* Math: Operations and Algebraic Thinking
* Social Studies: Symbols of America (Unit 8), Home and Family (Unit 26)
Ms. Turnbull’s class:
* Wit & Wisdom: Lessons 17-20
* Math: Continue with multiples
* Morphology: <rupt>
* Science: Vertebrate & Invertebrate
Mrs. Banks class:
1st Grade
* Reading: Generate and answer questions about Green Eggs and Ham using key details
* Phonics: VCe Review
* ELA: Interrogative sentences - Narrative writing
* Math: Fluently adding and subtracting within 10
* Social Studies: Historical Figures
2nd Grade
* Reading: Generate and answer questions about Green Eggs and Ham using key details
* Phonics: VCe Review
* ELA: Interrogative sentences, Narrative writing
* Math: One step-word problem
* Science: Force and Motion
Visual Cooking
Cooking is an important life skill our students will need to learn. At home, you can use visual recipes to help your child begin learning these important skills!
Park Street PTA Store
Be sure to check out this flyer which was sent home this week in your child’s daily folder. The Panther Hope t-shirt is our cancer fundraiser this year. Donations from the purchase of this shirt will be given to the Atlanta chapter of the American Cancer Society. Check out our PTA store!
Save the Date
- October 10: PTA Hispanic Heritage Celebration, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
- October 14 - 18: Conference Week
- October 14 - 18: Fall Book Fair
Reminders
- Park Street is a uniform school. Below is a copy of our uniform policy. Your child is expected to be in uniform Monday-Thursday.
- Birthday parties are not permitted. However, birthday cupcakes are allowed during lunch time.
- If there is a change in transportation arrangements, we require notice from the parent before allowing students to be transported by anyone other than a parent. You may send in a note with your child or email parkstreet@marietta-city.org with the details of the change.
- When a student arrives late (after 8:30), an adult must sign the student in at the office.
- If a child is out for any portion of the school day, the missed time is recorded as a tardy. A note sent in the morning will help us to have your child ready. To avoid interruptions to instruction, no student will be released between 2:45 and 3:15.
