Indian Creek First Grade News
News for March 26th-30th
Parent Teacher Conferences
Please be on time to pick your children up after school. We want to keep our scheduled conferences running on time.
*****NO AFTER SCHOOL TUTORING THIS WEEK FOR FIRST GRADE********
Here are some ideas to discuss with your child's teacher:
1. What do you see as my child’s strengths?
2.What do you think are the academic challenges for my child?
3. What would you do if my child were struggling academically with something?
4.How is my child doing socially?
5. How do you support kids in their social development? For example, how do you address challenges that happen at recess? or lunch time?
6. Is my child on grade level for reading? What about math, science and writing?
7. Can we talk more about your homework policy and how my child is doing with homework?
8. What can I do at home to support what you’re doing in the classroom?
We hope that you have signed up. We love sharing the outstanding things your child has done this year so far. Remember we still have 10 weeks of school left. So can make changes and improves before school ends.
What We Are Learning This Week
Language Arts/Reading: We will be working Literary Non-Fiction. We are exploring biographies and autobiographies. We are going to target Eleanor Roosevelt, Benjamin Franklin, and Francis Scott Key. This week students will work creating a biography on a famous person of good character.
Social Studies: As we explore literary non-fiction. We are looking at the historical figures exemplify characteristics of good citizens and how they have influenced our history today.
Spelling/Words Their Way: We will no have Words Their Way this week.
On Monday, we are also giving your child a list of 5 high frequency words. On Friday, we will have a sight word test on the following words- green, been, off, may,some. Please work with your child to learn them. Children should be able to read these words with fluency and automatically without thinking about them.
Math:We will doing on geometric 2-d shapes. We have been using word to describe flat 2 dimensional shapes-like vertices and sides. We are also composing shapes and decomposing shapes. We are exploring that a hexagon can be made by putting 2 trapezoids together or or 6 triangles. If you are thinking my child can do this easily that is great! Our next step with this skill and spatial reasoning is fractions.
Here is a great math related gift for the spring holidays: Pattern Block activities
Science: We just finished our weather and seasons unit. Now we launch into living and non-living. This will be an important as we start exploring life-cycles and classification of plants and animals.
Important Dates
March 8th - School Open House 6:30-7:30
March 12th -18th Spring Break! Family Time and No School!
March 19th - The 120th day of school ! AMAZING!
March 29th - Early Release Day and End of 3rd Nine Weeks
March 30th - No school Good Friday and First Night of Passover
Other Noteworthy Things from school!
Help us grow our Falcon Family! Refer a friend and family to join our school!
Pre-K sign up should be opening soon also!
Camp Invention -Looking for campers during the week of summer at Indian Creek!
Camp Invention’s all-new summer program, Fast Forward, shows children that even the wildest and craziest ideas can become reality! Campers in grades K-5 will create a vehicle of the future, design a mechanical robot dog, and build futuristic dream homes. Local educators lead the week of fun, hands-on, STEM activities that encourage children to think big, explore their curiosity, and never give up! Visit campinvention.org to register. Use promo code Ideas25 to save $25 (expires 3/23) and Ideas15 to save $15 (expires 5/4)
Teacher Contact Information
Mrs. McDuffie
Office 469-713-5180
E-mail: McDuffieT@LISD.net
Team Lead
Mrs. Bermudez
Office 469-713-5180
E-mail: BermudezC@LISD.net
Ms. Denison
Office 469-713-5180
Email: DenisonT@LISD.net
Mrs. Freedenberg
Office 469-713-5180
E-mail: Freedenbergr@LISD.net
Indian Creek Elementary
2050 Arbor Creek, Carrollton, TX 75010
phone number 469-713-5180