May/June Newsletter
Check out what is happening this month!
Events
May 1-5
Teacher Appreciation Week
May 4th
Kindergarten Round Up 5:30-6:30
May 8-10
STAAR testing-closed campus
May 10
Coppell Nature Park field trip
May 17
Teacher of the Day
CISD Night at the Ballpark
May 19
Field Day
May 26
The Future is Bright at MKB
(learners will visit the second grade classes)
May 29
Memorial Day
No School
May 31
End of Year Assembly
5th Grade Talent Show
June 1
EARLY RELEASE and
LAST DAY OF SCHOOL
First graders did an outstanding job teaching us how to care for our planet!
Langauge Arts
-story elements
-sequencing of events
-oral retelling
-main idea
-poetry
- adjectives
-adverbs
-pronouns
-compound words
-transition words
-fiction and nonfiction
-syllabication
-long vowels
-cause and effect
-research
-digraphs and diphthongs
-r controlled vowels
-contractions
-personal narrative
Mrs. Sumrall'S Class
Miss. O'Hearn's Class
Miss. Whitehill's Class
Math
- counting backwards from 120 by 10s beginning with any given number (113, 103, 93, 83...)
- creating bar- type graphs
- drawing conclusions and answering questions about graphs
- classifying and sorting 2d Shapes by attributes
- creating 2D figures
- identifying 2D figures
- composing 2D shapes by joining other shapes
- distinguishing between 2D and 3D shapes
- identifying 3D shapes
- decomposing 2D figures into two or four equal parts
- identify halves and fourths
- using tools to measure length
- illustrating measurement
- describing the relationship between different lengths
- describing length to the nearest whole unit
- telling time to the hour and half hour
Miss. Whitehill's Class
Miss. Gerome's Class
Miss O'Hearn Class
Social Studies
First graders are...
- creating a timeline to show when things happened
- learning about inventors
- locating places of importance on a map or globe
- using cardinal directions
- identifying landforms and bodies of water
- giving examples of natural resources and describing their uses
- describing ways to protect our natural resource
- describing and explaining the importance of various beliefs, customs, languages and traditions of families and communities
- describing how technology impacts the way people live, communicate and work
Mrs. Sumrall's Class
Miss. Gerome's Class
Miss. O'Hearn's Class
Science
First graders will be learning about...
• observing and recording changes in the sky such as the clouds, moon, stars and sun
• identifying characteristics of the seasons during day and night
• recording weather such as hot, cold, clear, cloudy, calm, windy, rainy or icy
• demonstrate air is all around us and observe that wind is moving air
• observe, describe and sort soil by size, texture and color
• classifying objects by larger/ smaller, heavier/ lighter, shape, color and texture
• gather evidence of how rocks, soil and water make useful products
• identify and describe natural sources of water
Technology
First graders are practicing...
• Logging in
• Website navigation
• responsible usage
• using Seesaw
• reading on Istation and Raz-Kids
• using Spelling City
• researching on PebbleGo
Birthdays
Please don't forget to schedule with your teacher in advance a day to send in a birthday treat. We ask that you send in ONE small treat per child. Also, we ask you do not send in birthday treats with ICING! It is too messy.
Thank you,
First Grade Teachers
Things You Need to Know!
We need your help with recess duty! Please sign up for a day!!
Recess 10:25-11:00 Lunch11:00-11:30
*Please remember to write your child’s name on all their
personal items they bring to school…
lunch boxes, water bottles, sweaters & jackets!
Every Friday is Mockingbird Maverick Spirit day!
Breakfast and Lunch Menu
Help! Keep lice out of our schools and off your students!
We are sharing this letter to increase head lice awareness so that you may take steps at home to help prevent your child from becoming infested with head lice. Anytime children come together, particularly at the start of the school year, or any social grouping, head lice cases commonly increase. Please encourage your child not to share or trade personal items such as hats, combs, brushes, headbands, clips, as well as, helmets or headphones with foam protectors.
Direct, physical, hair-to-hair contact is the usual method of transmission. Lice do not jump, fly, or swim. They are, however, good crawlers. Check your child’s head weekly for lice and/or nits (eggs). Mature lice, which are the size of a sesame seed, avoid light and are hard to see. Lice eggs or “nits” are usually found close to the scalp-usually within ¼-inch. The nits are yellowish-white, tear-drop shaped, and are firmly attached at an angle to the hair shaft close to the scalp behind the ears and on the back of the neck. They cannot easily be flicked away as dandruff can. Head lice do not transmit disease and are not a serious medical condition. They cannot survive on pets. If you find head lice on your child keep him or her home until properly treated. This should be no longer than 24 hours. Continue to examine all family members for 3 weeks and treat if live lice or nits close to the scalp are found.
Check regularly – treat quickly
Keep Head Lice Off Your Child
Details on our new CISD Head Lice Protocol & Guidelines and other information on head lice, including detecting and treating, can be found on our Coppell Independent School District website at www.coppellisd.com; click “Departments”, then “Health Services”, then “Head Lice”. Thank you for your help and support in this important matter.