Welcome to First Grade

Merry Christmas! 

Please see below for this week's news and important 1st Grade Updates! 

Language Arts 

This week we are working on Unit 5 Fundations. We will be focusing on glued sounds. The sounds of the letters m and n come through the nose and because of this, the short vowel sound /a/ is somewhat distorted. Therefore, /am/ as in ham and /an/ as in fan are GLUED together.  The trick words of this unit are: from, have, do, does. We will continue our small group reading instruction. 

Math 

The focus will be: 

• Addition and Subtraction strategies of counting on and counting back to solve equations

• Making 10

• Addition and subtraction word problems with putting together and taking away 

• Fact Fluency 

Science/Social Studies

We are finishing our first Science Unit. We will begin our Social Studies Unit. Students will learn the importance of following rules. They will learn about how understanding the past helps us.

Religion 

This week our learning goals include: 

• Advent 

• God chose Joseph and Mary

Specials 

Monday: Music

Tuesday: PE (PE Uniforms)

Wednesday: Library

Thursday: World Cultures

Friday: Art 

Announcements:

• Gentle Reminder for Late Arrivals

  • After 8:15am, please park and bring your student into the lobby and sign them into school. If the safeties and staff are no longer outside, ALL students should come through the main entrance/front doors. This is for safety purposes as all other entrances lock at 8:15am.

• Lunches from outside restaurants may not be brought into the cafeteria with the exception of the child’s birthday. Students are not permitted to have lunches delivered to school by Door Dash or similar services. Parents may provide a special lunch for their child, not the child’s classmates, on the child’s birthday. 

Important Dates: 

• Friday, December 12th- Pajama Tag Day $1 for Giving Back 

• Friday, December 12th- Musical Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer 6pm

• Thursday, December 18th- House Day! Wear your house color 

• Thursday, December 18th- 2nd Grade Christmas Pageant 6:30pm

• Friday, December 19th- Classroom Christmas Party and Early Dismissal Day- Ugly Christmas sweater/Red & Green dress day 

• December 20th- January 4th- Christmas Break

• Monday, January 5th- Classes Resume

• Friday, January 9th- Spirit Wear Day 

• Wednesday, January 13th- PAC Night at Ledo's

• Friday, January 16th- Early Dismissal Day/Spirit Wear Day 

You can contact our team at the following email addresses: 

Mrs. Nappi   [email protected]

Mrs. Guillen   [email protected]

Mrs. Clough          [email protected]