First Grade Newsletter
March 29th, 2018
Important Dates
- March 30th & April 1st: NO SCHOOL
- April 9th - 13th: STAAR Testing Week (building closed to visitors)
- April 10th: Dallas World Aquarium Field Trip
- April 16th - 20th: Spring Book Fair (more information to come)
- April 25th: Bronco Press Due
A Note from Nurse Ericka on Seasonal Allergies
If you know your child has severe seasonal allergies and needs to take medication, please try to give it to them at home to avoid worsening of symptoms at school. Seasonal allergy symptoms can include red/itchy eyes, watering of eyes, eye swelling, sore throat, runny noses, and sneezing.
It is important to try to avoid allergy triggers by following some basic steps: keeping windows closed at home, turn on the A/C and change filters as needed, shower and wash hair after being outside, washing clothes and sheets often to get rid of allergens, and using allergy relief medications such as antihistamines or other medications that may be recommended by your physician. Many of these medicines can be taken at home once or twice a day. Please note: It helps to reduce the severity of symptoms by starting medication about a month before pollination occurs and to take medication regularly. Please talk to your physician about what would be best for your child and remember that a medication request form is required from the parent and a physician’s order to give medications at school. In the nurse’s office, I can rinse eyes if necessary with tap water and give ice packs to apply to irritated eyes.
Thanks!
Nurse Ericka
What Are We Learning
Math
Next week we will begin our unit on time! We will be learning about the different parts of a clock along with telling time to the hour, half hour, and quarter hour.
Language Arts and Social Studies
Next week in language arts we will continue learning about adjectives and how to use them to describe color and numbers. We will also be learning how to correctly use apostrophes in contractions. In reading, we will continue to focus on comparing and contrasting and review how events are sequenced in stories. During writer's workshop, students will continue learning about how to effectively communicate their opinions through writing.
In social studies we have been comparing and contrasting communication and transportation from the past to the present. Next week in social studies we will be learning about Alexander Graham Bell and the impact he had on the development of technology.
Science
Bronco Best - March
Owen P.
Pierce P.
Vlada C.
Bishop D.
Ahmed A.
Natalie B.
First Grade Team
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Phone: 469-752-0100
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