Please send your students permission slip back this week!!

We are so excited to have Barn Hill Animal Preserve coming to see our students.

If you would like your student(s) to participate this form needs to be sent back by 3/11 with a parent signature.

Please remember that school starts at 8:20am. All students are expected in their classrooms at this time.

Please remember to send your students to school wearing their uniform clothes and sneakers each day. Students should also have a change of clothes in their backpacks in the case of an accident.

Please remember to send in excuses when your student is out sick.

Please have students bring a water bottle to school.

3/4: Spring Student/Class Pictures

3/13: DLI Dance 6:00pm

3/25-3/29: Book Fair

3/21-3/22: K-5 Write Score Assessment

4/1-4/5: Spring Break

4/12: Career Day

4/16-4/19: MAP Assessment

4/18: Lion King Performance 6:00 (3-5th performing)

4/29-5/3: Spanish MAP Assessment for DLI

5/6-5/10: Teacher Appreciation Week

5/21: Awards Day (More information to come)

5/23: Last Day of School

Tardy Drop-Off

When a student arrives late (after 8:30), an adult must sign the student in at the office.

Early Pick-Up

Please limit early pick-up of children to emergencies and appointments. If a child is out for any portion of the school day, the missed time is recorded as a tardy. A note sent in the morning will help us to have your child ready. To avoid interruptions to instruction, no student will be released between 2:45 and 3:15. Parents will be asked to wait for the dismissal bell. Come to the office to check out a student. Please be prepared to present photo identification upon request. No student will be released to an unknown or unauthorized person.

Practice reading fluency with your students each night when they get home!

You can also work on comprehension by asking your student questions about what they are reading!

Please work with your students on vocabulary and using context clues within reading to figure out the meaning of unknown words!

Reading:

-We started our new unit on Light and Sound.

Phonics:

-We began working on R controlled vowels focusing on -ar and -or.

Writing:

-We began our opinion writing unit.

Math:

-We started our unit 5 for math! Unit five is focused on word problems. Students will be solving real world task through word problems including adding and subtracting two digit numbers, time within word problems, money and more.

Reading:

-We are continuing our unit in Light and Sound. Students will learn what causes shadows, and how shadows can change.

Phonics:

-We will begin working on R controlled vowels focusing this week on -ir, -ur, and -er.

Writing:

-We are continuing our opinion writing unit. Students will begin forming opinions and writing about them expanded sentences.

Math:

-We are continuing solving real world task through word problems including adding and subtracting two digit numbers, time within word problems, money and more. Students will be working on adding and subtracting within 20 and 50 this week.

Dear DLI Families

As we move into the end of the year, we will be focusing on our reading fluency, writing fluency, and math fluency. Students need to be able to use their skills to read and write. In math we will beginning unit 5 which is focused on word problems. Please work on reading with your student every night, letter formation and spelling, as well as math fluency.

High frequency words/ heart words students should know how to spell and read:

It is incredibly important that your student is able to read and spell these words. We are seeing that students that do not know them, are having their reading fluency impeded.

was, said, they, their, there, were, where, any, many, want, walk, talk, very, does, would, could, should, my, by, who, one, once, two, been, into, goes, about, because, friend, woman, women, again, have, when, here, you, your, done, move, four, forty, fourth, people, pretty, nothing, person

We add new words to this list each week, if your student can fluently read and spell a word. At the end of the year students should be able to read and spell 125 High Frequency words (including the "heart words" or irregularly spelled words.)

Work on suffixes with your students such as: -ed, -s, -es, -ing, -est and -er

Students should be reading at home every night. This can be new books, or the same books over and over. Reading the same book helps build fluency and automaticity in students reading. When students get stuck on a longer word, encourage your student to chunk the word into smaller parts or syllables.

Students should be able to read and spell 120 words on this list by the end of first grade.

Each quarter the amount that the student is graded on goes up. For quarter 2, students were graded on if they were able to read and write 64 high frequency words.

All students are expected to be in uniform. Students may wear jeans or Marietta or Park Street gear any day. Please make sure that jeans do not have holes in them.

All students need to be dressed appropriately for school as well as for the weather. Please make sure your student has a suitable coat when it is cold outside.

Reminder that all students should be wearing tennis shoes every day.