Indian Creek First Grade News
News for April 2nd-6th
A BIG THANK YOU! For attending Parent/ Teacher Conferences
What We Are Learning This Week
We open a new grading period!
Language Arts/Reading/Writing: Poetry is our focus for the next 3 weeks. We promise not Shakespeare...no simple prose fit for children that they can read it. This is a great way to practice fluency and accuracy in reading. We will also be writing poetry as well. We will be work on rhyme, alliteration,and rhythm. We will also be checking for understand of prose and making inferences. We will be checking to see if we can draw a conclusion on what the author wanted us to learn from their prose. Students will be asked to write poetic prose in addition to reading poetry. You may want to look at some fun books at home -like Shel Silverstein or Jack Prelutsky.
Social Studies: As we explore citizenship-look exploring American symbols, mottoes and patriotic customs. We are going to start with symbols this week. The Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore, The White House, The Liberty Bell
Spelling/Words Their Way: We will will have Words Their Way this week. Check your child's folder for their weekly sort- remember they will practice the sort until THURSDAY then they will glue it to their mats for the sort.
On Monday, we are also giving your child a list of 5 high frequency words. On Friday, we will have a sight word test on the following words- today, could, keep,much, give. Please work with your child to learn them. Children should be able to read these words with fluency and automatically without thinking about them.
Math:We will doing on geometric 3-d shapes. We have been using word to describe 3 dimensional shapes-like vertices and faces. We are also composing shapes and decomposing shapes.
Science: Now we have launched into living and non-living. This will be an important as we start exploring life-cycles and classification of plants and animals. This week we start with naming plant parts.
Important Dates
5-6 - Kindergarten Round up
6- Spirit Skate Night 6:30 - 8:30
7 - 3rd Grade Play date
10-11 -For Older Students -STAAR Test - Campus Closed to visitors
19 - Monthly Reader, Volunteer Open House
20 - Bad Weather Day - NO SCHOOL
26 - 1st Grade LISDOLA field trip
26 - PTA meeting 6:30 PM
Apr. 26 - 5th grade Music Performance
Apr. 27 - PTA Bingo Night
Apr. 30 - Kindergarten Parent Meeting - 5:00-6:00 PM
Other Noteworthy Things from school!
Help us grow our Falcon Family! Refer a friend and family to join our school!
Pre-K sign up should be opening soon also!
Camp Invention -Looking for campers during the week of summer at Indian Creek!
Camp Invention’s all-new summer program, Fast Forward, shows children that even the wildest and craziest ideas can become reality! Campers in grades K-5 will create a vehicle of the future, design a mechanical robot dog, and build futuristic dream homes. Local educators lead the week of fun, hands-on, STEM activities that encourage children to think big, explore their curiosity, and never give up! Visit campinvention.org to register. Use promo code Ideas25 to save $25 (expires 3/23) and Ideas15 to save $15 (expires 5/4)
Teacher Contact Information
Mrs. McDuffie
Office 469-713-5180
E-mail: McDuffieT@LISD.net
Team Lead
Mrs. Bermudez
Office 469-713-5180
E-mail: BermudezC@LISD.net
Ms. Denison
Office 469-713-5180
Email: DenisonT@LISD.net
Mrs. Freedenberg
Office 469-713-5180
E-mail: Freedenbergr@LISD.net
Indian Creek Elementary
2050 Arbor Creek, Carrollton, TX 75010
phone number 469-713-5180