Fabulous Firsties
Weekly Newsletter 1/11/21
Welcome Back!
Mrs. Dalfonso
Fantastic Firsties
January 2021
Updates for the Week
I hope you had a great weekend! For this week we will be following the hybrid schedule. Cohort A will be attending Monday and Tuesday. Cohort B will be attending Thursday and Friday. On Wednesday we will be working from home online. All groups will be starting the morning with Mr. Taibi's morning announcements and our morning meeting.
Updates for the Week:
For this week we will be following the hybrid schedule. Please see the Seesaw schedules each day to keep track of your child's actiivites.
Please make sure that you child is completing their Seesaw activities along with RAZ-kids, Zearn, Keyboarding and IXL each day. It is also important that your child attends school/zoom meetings to go over the skills needed to complete these lessons. A daily check-in is required so that I can record your child present for the day. We will be checking in together at 8:45 after Mr. Taibi's morning announcements on Zoom. The biggest change about attendance and Zoom session is about your child's camera being on. Your child's camera must stay on during our Zoom sessions unless prior notification is given. If your child has his/her camera off then your child will be marked absent during that session. If you have any questions, please let me know.
I will be recording activites completed on Seesaw along with the daily computer activities every day. Please follow the schedules on Seesaw. This will help your child when completing daily activites. The activities will also not stay on Seesaw. By the end of the week all of the activities on Seesaw will be cleared to get ready for the next week. If you would like me to contact you to let you know how many assignments your child has for the week please let me know.
Birthdays for January/Holiday
There are no January birthdays.
We will have off for Martin Luther King, Jr., Day on January 18th.
This Week's Schedule
**Make sure you are going on Seesaw so you see each day's schedule and activities**
Monday and Friday: Raz Kids & Keyboarding
Tuesday and Thursday: Raz Kids & Zearn
Wednesday: Raz Kids & IXL
There will be 10 activities I will be keeping track of each week unless it is a shortened week.
Thank you for all the hard work on Seesaw and your online programs!
Let's Welcome Our New Season Winter!
Focus of the Week
-Math For Math we will be working on balanced equations using the words true and false. We will also be working with numbers to break them apart into tens and ones. On Wednesday, we will continue to review skills for the marking period. This week we will be working on graphing. We will continue to count pictures and record, make tally marks, and answer questions about the winter graph. For IXL, this week the students will revisit equal parts of a shape using halves and fourths. Please continue to practice math facts for additon and subtraction for speed and accuracy. These math facts are facts up to 10. A great way to practice these is with flash cards.
-Reading: We will continue to work on the new essential question and what it means to "think like a scientist". This week we will also be reading stories about needs and want, animals, and animal adaptions.
-Fundations/Writing: In Fundations, the students will our starting Unit 7. Our trick words are my, by, why, and try,. Our focus will be on glued sounds using the word families (-ang, -ing, -ang, and -ong). The trick words for Unit 6 are were, are, who, what, when, where, there, and here. Please continue to review these trick works along with spell them. For Writing, we will be learning about rules, where you find rules, and how to list rules and draw a picture.
- SEL activities: We will be reading some stories, listening to songs, and participating in some social emotional learning activities! There will be a Brain break each day along with yoga on Wednesday. Our brain breaks will include penguins to go along with the time of year and our unit on animals.
Teachers' Contact Information
It is important to keep open communication, especially during these crazy times. If at anytime you have any questions or concerns, please reach out!
Email- adalfonso@gpsd.us
Text- 856-347-7133
Sometimes it may be easier to just send us a quick text!