First Grade Newsletter!
Week of 1/6-1/10
Important Reminders
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.
Please make sure that your children have their bus tag on their backpacks each day.
Upcoming Events
Coming up:
1/8: ACCESS Testing begins for ESOL students
1/16: 1st-5th Semester Awards
First Grade Awards: 9:00-9:45
1/20: NO SCHOOL: Federal Holiday
2/17-2/21: Winter Break
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:
Practice telling time with your students at home. In first grade we learn to tell time at the hour and half hour. Help them practice telling time, and referring to the time in ways like: "It is a half past 2:00"
Practice counting coins with your students, counting by 1s, 5s, 10s, and 25s.
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,
MyPath
All students have access to MyPath through their Schoology/ Clever. Students can access targeted reading and math activities based on their needs on their phone, ipad, or computer. Students should utilize this over Thanksgiving break!
MyPath is the application that is connected to the students MAP test scores. So students are given a pathway based on the areas that they need to continue working on. The steps are below.
1. From the Marietta City Schools Webpage, Go to schoology. Log in should be your students lunch number and their password is their birthday in the format (MMDDYYYY)
2. Go to the waffle icon in the top right corner and hit Clever
3. Hit the rainbow "G" to login with google.
4. In the search bar type "MyPath". (There should be a reading and math option)
- or look for the icons already made to favorites on the main Clever Screen.
Inside Our Classrooms:
What we learned before the break:
Reading: We finished up our unit 2: Creature Features, with our final text "Never Smile at a Monkey", looking at how animals use their unique features to protect themselves.
Phonics: Students worked on review over phonics skills learned in the first semester.
Science: We started our new science unit on magnets. Students learned about what magnets do and how they work.
Writing: Students worked on their informational writing unit, writing a topic sentence, 3 details and a conclusion about animals' unique features.
Math: We began our unit 4 in math: Exploring meaningful measurements. This week students reviewed and continued learning about proper ways to measure.
What we will learn this week:
Reading: We will be finishing up our unit 2: Creature Features, with our students writing an informational paragraph about an animal with a unique feature.
Phonics: Students will be working on y as a vowel!
Science: We will continue our unit on magnets.
Writing: Students will be finishing up our informational writing unit, with the end goal of students using their gained knowledge to write an end of module, 5 sentence informational paragraph about an animal of their choosing.
Math: We will be continuing our unit 4 in math: Exploring meaningful measurements. We will be looking at measuring with nonstandard units, telling time, and counting coins.
From our ESOL:
Each year, students in English learner programs take the ACCESS for ELLs language proficiency test. The test measures academic English language proficiency for students learning English in our school and throughout our state. Students will be taking the test over the next few weeks.
Teachers in our school use this information to help them make decisions about instruction for your child. Teachers also use these test scores to monitor the progress your child makes toward English proficiency.
Please reach out to me (Jmanning@marietta-city.k12.ga.us) if you have any questions.
From EIP: Ms. Reed
Practice telling time with your students!
Telling time is a valuable skill. Students in first grade need to know how to tell time on a digital clock and an analog clock.
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.

