First Grade Weekly News
Week of January 16-19
Reminders
This Week...
January 15 - No School
January 17th - Report Cards come home.
- The data in the reading section of your child's report card will be based off of student's class performance and based off progress monitoring we have done in class. Mid-Year assessments are being done after report cards go home. Connect Home letters will come home once assessments are complete.
General
- With it getting colder please send students with a jacket to school. Please make sure their names are in them.
- Please check and sign your child's agenda nightly.
- Students must bring agendas and take home folders to and from school everyday.
- Whenever there is a transportation change it MUST be hand written in their agenda.
- Library- Please make sure your child brings their library books back to exchange for new books.
- Please bring in a snack and water bottle daily, even if they are buying a school lunch.
- When your class starts bringing iPad home, please make sure you charge them nightly and return them to school each day.
- Excuse notes must be submitted within 2 days of your child's return to school.
- If your child is absent for sickness or a trip, they will receive missed work when they return to school. This is a schoolwide policy.
- The courtyard is open. You can come and eat lunch with your child. Check with your teacher for your classroom lunch time.
Homework ( all work due at the end of the week)
- Reading Practice
What we are learning...
ELA
We will be learning about text features, making predictions and poetry. We will talk about how we can tell a story is fiction.
Math
We will be learning about comparing problems. When doing this, students will notice that when comparing the addition and subtraction problems for a word problem they are fact families ( related facts). We will use the term more and less this week.
Fundations
We will be learning about consonant blends and r-controls sounds ( ar, or, er, ir, ur)
Heggerty
Here are parent letters about what we are working on.
Lunch Reminders
Breakfast $1.50 Lunch $3.00
Money can be added to students accts. by using the linq app (student number will be needed).
If you send in (cash/check) with your child, please put it in a zip-lock bag with their name on it.
Dates to Remember
January 15 - MLK Holiday, No School
January 17 - Report Cards go home
January 22 - Mid year reading assessments
January 25 - Mid year math assessments.
Through-out the month of January we will be doing reading, writing and math mid year assessments.