The MJT Weekly
Friday, December 11, 2020
A Note from Mr. Morcone (Please note the links can be clicked on the electronic versions of this newsletter):
Hello Parents and Guardians:
Tis' the season! If you had a chance to watch the Granville Park Lighting show streamed live last week, it was joyful to watch. Thank you to everyone involved as Granville looks amazing!
Thank you all for attending our Virtual PBIS Ceremony today. We honored our Students of the Month, Birthday's, Cafeteria behavior, Beehive drawing for lunch with myself and a song/activity from Mr. Tuttle.
Parent/Teacher Conferences: Monday, December 14, students will be dismissed half day. Dismissal Schedule: K-2: Busses will dismiss at noon. Parent pick-ups at 12:05. There will be NO afternoon UPK classes on both of these days. Grade 3 at GES: Busses at 11:50 and walkers at 11:55. There will be lunches available for all students, as needed. The conference format will be virtual, phone conference, or any similar means of communication. We will not be able to meet in person due to the pandemic.
Please reach out if you have are any questions or comments.
Respectfully,
Paul
Heath and Safety Reminders from MJT Nurse Miss Talham
Important Topics:
Safety Updates:
- We will continue to meet with The Needham Group, our risk-management agency, to review current lockdown safety procedures.
- We have one more evacuation or lockdown drill to complete before the winter.
Remote Learners:
Continue to have your child participate in PE, Art and Music activities that are located in the Google Classrooms. These teachers will continue to check-in with you.
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Curriculum At-A-Glance:
*Please note that these are just some of the skills that students are learning. Updated every two weeks. 12.11- 1.8
Pre K
ELA:
Letter identification/phonemic awareness for the letters I, J
Aa-Jj review
Spelling and writing our first name
Listening to stories
Drawing pictures and dictating a sentence about the picture
Math:
Rote counting 1-20
Patterns
Meaningful counting of objects, 0-6
Writing numbers 1- 5, review
Writing 6
Kindergarten
ELA:
- Letters qu, z
- Fairy Tales, Holidays, Traditions
- Dec. Sight words
- Opposites
Math:
- Writing Numerals to 20
- Shapes and combining shapes
- Missing numbers
First Grade
ELA:
- Base words with suffix -s
- Nouns and verbs
- Glued sounds ing, ang, ong, ung
- Silent e
- Review of reading and writing CVC words, digraphs sh/th/ch/wh/ck,
- Double letter spellings: Ll, ss, ff, and glued sounds -all, -am, -an
- Reading sight words
- Handwriting
- Capitalization and punctuation
- Character/Setting/Main Events
Math:
Adding fluently within 10
Adding 3 addends (looking for friends of ten and doubles facts)
Measurement using nonstandard units (paper clips/cubes)
Doubles facts
Subtraction within 10
Solving addition and subtraction word problems using pictures
Understanding the relationship of part/part/whole through number bonds
Second Grade
ELA:
Writing - beginning, middle, end
Reading - characters and setting
Social Studies - holiday economics (needs vs wants)
Math:
Continuation of clocks (hour/half-hour)
Place Value
Third Grade
ELA:
Grammar - topic and concluding sentences, and pronouns
Reading -Determining the main idea
Spelling - /ee/ and /ae/
Math:
Multiplication and division using a variable as the unknown
Commutative and distributive properties of multiplication
PTO Event-Rolling Through A Winter Wonderland
Saturday, Dec 12, 2020, 05:00 PM
Granville Little League Park, Prospect Street, Granville, NY, USA
ANNOUNCEMENTS/OTHER:
Golden Tickets: If your child rides a bus to school, it is most important to have your child with the ticket in hand as they arrive at school if they have been screened at home. This makes the arrival process go smoothly at the bus port.
Academic Intervention Services (AIS-Letters): If you have received one of these letters with your report card, this indicates that your child qualifies based on our criteria document. This year's services are very different than last year due to the nature of our situation with the pandemic. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Emergency Activity Lessons/packet: In the event of a brief (24-48 hour) closure, an emergency hard copy packet was sent home with your child at the start of the school year with an attached letter explaining this process. These activities arranged by grade level are now also posted on our MJT Webpage for easy access. These activities are only for a 24-48 hour closure. After this duration, we will activate our Chromebook deployment and each child will receive their Closure Class Schedule from their teacher for full online/remote learning.
Mary J Tanner Primary Building
Email: pmorcone@granvillecsd.org
Website: https://mjt.granvillecsd.org/
Location: 9593 New York 22, Middle Granville, NY, USA
Phone: 518 642-9460
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