First Grade News
February 11 - 15, 2019
Dates to Note
February 11 - Valentine's boxes and cards may be brought in
Decades Night at Skatetown 6:00 - 8:00 pm
February 14 - Valentine's Day parties
PLEASE NOTE: The party time is 2:00-2:50!
February 15 - Future Explorations 2:00 - 2:50
Looking ahead:
February 18 - Student Holiday; Professional Learning for teachers
February 20 - Field trip to The Crayola Experience
February 21 - First Grade Student-Led Conferences 3:00-4:00
February 22 - Six Flags 6-Hour Reading forms due
- Please continue practicing your child's Spelling concept at home. Be looking in your child's Take Home folder for a sheet with a list of suggested ways to practice Spelling at home.
- If your child is participating, signed 6 Hour Six Flags Reading forms are due on February 22. Only signed forms can be accepted.
Thank you!
Valentine's Day Information
- Please contact our homeroom parents to offer to help set up for the Valentine's party. Set up will be 1:10-1:50.
- The Valentine's party is this Thursday, 2:00 - 2:50.
- The Valentine boxes and cards may be brought to school starting tomorrow.
Thank you!!
Chaperone Information for February 20 Field Trip to the Crayola Experience
Please Note:
Emails to confirmed chaperones will be sent out this week. If you do not receive one and were planning to chaperone, please contact us right away!
Student-Led Conferences
Parents are invited to come to school with their child any time between 3:00 and 4:00 for a student-led conference that should last about 15 minutes. At that time, your child will share highlights of what they are learning and data that shows their progress so far. It will also be an opportunity for parents to acknowledge their child's strengths and encourage them to use a growth mindset to improve in weaker areas.
This will not be a time to conference with the teacher, as several student-led conferences will be conducted simultaneously, as groups come and go.
As always, you are welcome to email us to request a Parent-Teacher conference at another time.
Our students will be looking forward to positive discussions about their growth this year!
February is First Grade's Turn to Support the GRACE Food Drive
Items needed: Canned Fruit
The grocery aisles have lots to choose from: canned peaches, diced pears, mandarin oranges, chopped pineapple, etc.
Collection baskets are right outside the First Grade classrooms for the month.
Thank you for helping families in need in our community.
What We're Learning
Math - Place Value concepts, including expanded form (90 + 3) and standard form (93) of a number, ten more/ten less than a 2 digit number, counting backwards from 100; addition and subtraction facts; story problems
Humanities - Review of important inventors and inventions learned so far; words with long ea digraph and short ea digraph
"Small Moment" stories
Science - Magnets
OCT First Grade Team
kimberly.mcnamara@gcisd.net @OCTMcNamara
allison.moore@gcisd.net @OCTMoore
cindy.davis@gcisd.net @OCTCDavis
whitney.arington@gcisd.net @OCTArington
amanda.welch@gcisd.net @OCTWelch