First Grade Flash
Weekly Updates (Week 15)
We made it successfully through the fourteenth week of school. We look forward to all of the wonderful things that are ahead.
Here are a few reminders and updates:
-Please ensure that your scholar is in full uniform daily. Uniform policy details are available here: http://leadershippreparatoryacademy.org/UserFiles/Servers/Server_372362/File/Uniform%20Violation%20letter%20and%20School%20Uniform%20and%20Vendor%20Information%201.pdf
We thank you for all of your contributions to help make our Trunk or Treat/Character Day a success.
-Nov. 5: Early Dismissal/TWD (all scholars must be off campus by 11:30 a.m.)
-Nov. 6: NO School/TWD
-Nov. 8: First Grade Field trip Callaway Gardens *Mandated reporter training must be completed and a copy of the certificate must be sent to your child's teacher and Ms. Nosworthy no later than Tuesday. Be sure to complete and submit the volunteer contract as well. If you plan to send your child a lunch that day, please place it in a large ziloc bag with their name on the bag. Ensure that students are properly dressed for the weather. Students are to wear spirit shirts on this day. Requests for sack lunches from the school for this trip has ended.
-PTO Meeting/Spaghetti Dinner: Tuesday, November 13 at 6 p.m.
-Pizza Hut Book It Program information is listed below the icon. Signed tracking sheets for November will need to be submitted on 11/30/18 in order to receive a free pizza coupon.
-Thank you for your participation in Red Ribbon/Anti Bullying activities.
Wishlist Items:
(Sloan) baby wipes, Clorox/Lysol wipes, copy paper, card stock (white and color), sheet protectors and laminating sheets *When preparing your child's lunch/snack, please keep in mind that there are some friends with nut allergies in our classroom.
(Williams) clorox/Lysol wipes, hand sanitizer, paper towels and copy paper
*All donations of wishlist items may be used towards your volunteer hours. 1 hour/$10 spent. Volunteer Contract information is available on our school website.
-Continue to check your email, our weekly e-blast and our website http://leadershippreparatoryacademy.org regularly for updates and important resources and information.
-Homework and our e-blast (weekly newsletter) will generally be posted directly to our First Grade page on the school website unless otherwise stated. You will begin to access this information directly from the website moving forward. Click here: http://leadershippreparatoryacademy.org/faculty_staff/first_grade_team
-Please ensure that you are keeping your child's lunch account replenished. Click here: https://schoolpaymentportal.com/Default.aspx
-NO communications regarding attendance will be accepted via ClassDojo. All communications must be sent to Mrs. Franklin/Ms. Nosworthy via phone, email or handwritten.
Arrival and Dismissal: http://leadershippreparatoryacademy.org/UserFiles/Servers/Server_372362/Image/News/Arrival%20and%20Dismissal%20Procedure%20Change%20-%208.20.2018.pdf Please be mindful that inclement weather dismissal days are not for conferencing with your child's teacher. For the safety purposes and to ensure a smooth dismissal process, we are requesting that you pick up your scholar and transition so that the focus will stay on all remaining students.
We look forward to a successful week 15.
Clip Chart
PTO
Class Dojo
IXL
MobyMax
Read Works
Box Tops
Pizza Hut Book It Program
Use any of the following tracking calendars of choice and submit it electronically or printed to your child's teacher on the last week day of every month.
-http://www.bookitprogram.com/teachers/printables/2018-19/Tracking-Calendars/Holiday/Holiday_All.pdf
Only students who have submitted a completed calendar for each month will receive a free pizza coupon.
Education Galaxy
Success Maker
MAP Skills
ACADEMIC UPDATES
Please allow your scholar to complete all writing portions of their homework. This is beneficial and necessary practice to improve on formatting (penmanship, capitalization, punctuation, spacing and spelling) and writing in complete sentences. This also gives them an opportunity to take pride in their work. If you notice any errors in capitalization and punctuation, consider it as an opportunity to discuss and correct those errors. If you notice misspelling in any of their 220 sight word goal words, please correct.
Continue to work with your scholar on reading comprehension using text evidence to answer questions.
The designated weights for Infinite Campus: CW-45%, Assessment During Learning 25%, Summative Assessment 30% and Pre-Assessments 0%
It is very imperative that you allow your scholar to complete all pretests (mainly MobyMax) independently. This is important because the system sets all future activities to their levels once pretests are complete.
Students should be ale to read their homework sentences that are submitted on Fridays independently so please be sure to practice.
NOVEMBER BIRTHDAY SHOUTOUTS
Joshua C. 11/10
Ms. Sloan 11/18
Learning Focus
-Naming words that begin with each letter sound
-Story elements: character, setting, author/illustrator (the purpose for each) and problem and solution
-Parts of a book: front cover, back cover, spine, page number, title page, etc. (introduced and reviewed weekly)
-Directionality (left to right, top to bottom) when reading and writing
-Writing in complete sentences using the correct format (capitalization, punctuation, spacing, spelling and penmanship)
-Phoneme segmentation, blending, and substitution
-Reading comprehension using text evidence
-Completing a sentence using a group of given choices
For example: Ron can _____ a flag for his class.
a. make
b. they
c. fun
-Identifying which word comes first or last in ABC order
-Counting 0-120 rote from any given number, Skip counting 2s, 5s and 10s
-Number of the Day
-Cont. to Base Ten/Place Value
*continue to practice writing tallies and data interpretation with your child
-Identifying numbers and amounts that are one more/less and ten more/less than a given number or amount
-Cont. to Patriotism and American Symbols
-Cont. Light, Heat and Sound (Forms of Energy)
-Preparation for Unit 2 Post Assessments:
- Scholars must be able to represent numbers in multiple ways, identify place value, identify missing numbers and identify coins and represent amounts with pennies and dimes.
- Scholars must be able to identify nouns and verbs within given sentences and determine needed ending punctuation marks to complete a sentence.
- Scholars must be able to identify, name and describe forms of energy, emergency alarms, define patriotism and identify American Symbols.