Miss Fuchs' Weekly Updates

Monday, February 19- President's Day-no school

Friday, February 23- Spelling Test and Reading Test, Homework Packet #19 due

Friday, February 23- Six Flags reading logs due

Monday, February 26th- What's the Weather Project Due!

Friday, March 2- Dr. Seuss Day

Friday, March 23- Donuts with Dad

• Homework Packet #19
• Math Homework Packet #19

Dads, mark your calendars! On Friday, March 23 from 8:00-8:30AM, first grade will be having a Donuts with Dad celebration. Because Father's Day is celebrated in the summer months, we want to make sure we get a time to honor our dads. We will provide breakfast foods and drinks. Students will also have a couple of fun treats that they have made just for you! It will be a special time to sit with your child and hear from them how much you mean to them!

Moms, go ahead and mark your calendars for Friday, April 20 from 8:00-8:30AM! Your special day will be next!

We will be celebrating Dr. Seuss’ Birthday on Friday, March 2nd. Students will have an awesome time rotating to each class to hear a Dr. Seuss story and participate in a thematic activity. This truly cross-curricular celebration will have students practicing math skills, performing science experiments, creating crafts, writing, and (of course) enjoying a day immersed in the fantastic literary world of Dr. Seuss! Students will each have a Dr. Seuss hat goody bag to collect Dr. Seuss themed prizes as they complete activities in each room.

Be on the look out for the sign-up genius and see how you can help make this day a success!

Elementary is planning on implementing a Career Day in April. We would love to have about 7 presenters come to the classrooms to share their skills with our kids. If you are interested in doing a presentation, please let myself, or Mrs. Ivarie know. We are looking for an interactive and engaging presentation. Models, pictures, things the students can touch or manipulate are welcome, (and encouraged!) The projected date is April 13, 2018. If you are interested, please send a brief overview of your career and an idea of what you’d be presenting to the classes. If you have a preferred grade level that you wish to work with, please include that information.

Read Across America Day is Friday, March 2nd. To help prepare for this day, we would love to build our elementary classroom libraries with gently used books donated by our FSA families. If you have any books that are no longer needed in your home, please consider donating. We will take the books collected and distribute to all of the elementary classrooms. We are excited to get some new books in the hands of our students on Read Across America Day.

Donations will be accepted until February 23 rd and may be dropped off in Ms. Ivarie’s office, room 1202. Thank you!

We have a bunch of students needing to go to the prize box however, we are in low supply! If you are able to, please send in some small items that can be contributed to our treasure chest. Please feel free to send in items that your child is excited and interested about...this will be a great motivation for good behavior!

Here are some example of appropriate prizes:

Small Toys

Pencils

Small Puzzles

Coloring Books

Erasers

Stickers

Notepads

Pencil Grips

Small Books

**PLEASE NO FOOD OR CANDY ITEMS!

Thanks for your help in motivating your child's behavior! I look forward to many "star students"!

Elementary students can participate in an exciting program that encourages children to read for FUN! Read to Succeed is a program sponsored by Six Flags. Every student who completes six hours of recreational reading before our deadline of Friday, February 23rd will receive a free admission ticket to Six Flags! Your child is bringing home their 2016-2017 Reading Log today. Work on filling up your child's log and return it to me by Friday, February 23rd to receive a Six Flags ticket. Happy Reading!

If you are looking for reinforcement of skills we are learning in class or extra practice for your first grade student - please consider using Study Island resource at home this year. This is a great resource we will be using this year where students can practice Math and Reading/Language Arts skills at home. This will help your child feel more confident during our MAP assessments this year. It is designed to help them practice the areas they are having difficulty with. Your child's username and password is the same as your FSA Connect login. If you need this information, please send me an email.

You can access the website at http://www.studyisland.com/

Reading/Language Arts: We will continue to work on writing different forms of poetry, in reading, we will identify non-fiction text features and, identify and use adjectives, use vowel digraph oa/ow, and review other parts of speech we have learned this year.

Spelling Words: boat, road, snow, row, yellow, loaf, coat, soap, blow, pillow, found, mouth, once, took, wild

Science: We will start our unit on light and sound this week!, and begin it with energy.

Social Studies: We will also learn about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, two presidents that inspired our upcoming Presidents' Day holiday.

First Grade Teacher

Email: kfuchs@fultonscienceacademy.org
Website: Fultonscienceacademy.org
Location: 3035 Fanfare Way, Alpharetta Georgia 30009
Phone: (678) 366-2555