1st Grade Newsletter

Always Look on the Bright Side!

March 17th - 21st

Dates to Remember:

March 14th -- 1st grade Report Cards come home
March 20th -- 1st grade Musical Program -- be here at 5:40 pm
March 31st - April 4th -- Arts Spirit Week (see graphic above for specific days)
April 18th - 27th -- Spring Break

First Grade Home Connect

Let's make a connection between home and school!

Here's how:

This week you will begin your March reading challenge. Try to complete 12 out of 16 boxes this month!
Complete your UFLI reading homework.
This homework will come home each Monday and you will have until the next Monday to complete and return it. THIS WEEK YOU HAVE 2 LESSONS TO COMPLETE.
Practice counting and practice math facts at home.
WATCH THE UFLI VIDEOS BELOW TO HELP WITH YOUR HOMEWORK THIS WEEK. It is a great review of what we will learn in class this week.

We need your help for our Spring Carnival!

We need your help! Sign up here to help us with the Spring carnival!

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080945ACA62FA13-55060636-2025

UFLI Videos of the Week

Character Trait

This week we will begin learning about our new trait Perseverance! We will learn to keep going and not give up when things get hard!

Reading

We will continue our nonfiction unit in Shared Reading! This week we will continue reading nonfiction texts. This week we will read "Mosquito Life Cycles."

We will complete our UFLI phonics lessons for "tch" and "dge," and review the digraphs "ph" and "gh" in our Secret Stories.

Math

This week we will solving word problems, and we will review how to use many different strategies to solve them. Some of those strategies include: using number lines, drawing quick pictures, and using tens frames. We will really focus on knowing WHEN to use the different strategies and understanding WHAT the problem is asking to do.

Writing

This week we will finish our unit of writing about our Opinions. We will continue writing reasons to support our opinions and writing about WHY that is our opinion.

Science and Social Studies

This week we will continue our Rocks and Minerals unit. We will explore the different properties of rocks! Help us go on a rock hunt at home and add to our rock collections! We will bring our gem mining collections home at the end of this unit.

Mrs. Beare's Let Grow March Padlet -- Upload your child's picture for March here!

https://padlet.com/kbrun6/LetGrowMarch

Dress Down

Please be sure you are following dress code on DRESS DOWN days (as stated on the dress code matrix). This includes no spaghetti straps, short shorts, or inappropriate shoes. ALL STUDENTS SHOULD WEAR ATHLETIC SHOES EVERY DAY.

Picking up your child early?

PLEASE DO NOT SIGN YOUR CHILD OUT AFTER 2:15 EACH DAY. If you need to pick up, please try to get them BEFORE that time. Please let us know if you are picking up your child early so that we can have them packed up and ready.

Our recess time is 11:00-11:30 each day and our lunch time is from 11:30 - 12:00 each day. Please plan accordingly for early pick-ups. Thank you!

PLEASE BE SURE YOUR CHILD HAS AN EXTRA CHANGE OF CLOTHES IF THEY ARE PRONE TO BATHROOM ACCIDENTS.

First Grade Curriculum Night Info

Click here:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PIcNKcKYLSoDiZPkdDU9Tl2wHRFsHpKF/edit#slide=id.p1

Family Day T-shirt

Your child will need to wear the navy Family Day shirt on March 10th (UA Family Day), and April 10th (trip to theatre).

If your child did not get a shirt, please wear a NAVY tshirt or uniform shirt.

Unfortunately, this shirt is not uniform approved for other days of the school year (other than dress down Fridays).

UA Dresscode

First Graders should:

LABEL ALL JACKETS AND SWEATERS
Wear a Belt!
Send a uniform approved sweater or sweatshirt for the classroom
Navy, white and khaki clothing -- No Red
Grey hoodies are OK

First Grade Ice Cream Days:

Bretz -- Tuesday

Helms -- Thursday

Huber -- Friday

Hudson -- Monday

Watt -- Wednesday

Lott -- Thursday

Zarger -- Monday

*Send $1.00 each week or purchase an ice cream card on Boonli.

Our First Grade Library Schedule:

Bretz -- Friday

Helms -- Monday

Huber --- Tuesday

Hudson --- Wednesday

Lott --- Thursday

Watt -- Friday