First Grade Flash
WEEKLY UPDATES (WEEK 39)
We enjoyed a successful week 38.
Here are a few reminders and updates.
-Please, continue to speak with your child regularly about the
expectations both academically and behaviorally. Behavior related
concerns may result in deficiency notifications and/or your child being
unable to participate in field trips or other school/classroom activities.
-Additional information about our published class books is available under the 'meet the authors' icon below.
-Mother's Day Celebration: http://leadershippreparatoryacademy.org/UserFiles/Servers/Server_372362/Image/News/Mothers'%20Day%20Luncheon%20Flyer.pdf
-Thank you to all Career Day volunteers.
Here is a list of important dates for the month of May:
Thank you for all of your kindness, gifts and gestures during Teacher Appreciation Week. It is an honor to serve you all.
May 24 Olympic Day- 8-11 am
http://leadershippreparatoryacademy.org/UserFiles/Servers/Server_372362/Image/News/Olympic%20Day%20Volunteer%20Registration%20Form%20-%205.18.18.pdf and http://leadershippreparatoryacademy.org/UserFiles/Servers/Server_372362/Image/News/Olympic%20Day%20-%20Basketball%20Competition%20Flyer.pdf
*We are accepting all donations of Gatorade/Powerade minis, mini water bottles, chips and snack cakes for Olympic Day
May 21 Honor's Day, First Grade 10:00 am (details sent via email)
Honors Day Attire:
ยท Full LPA uniform
May 23 Class Celebrations-First Grade Fiesta details and wish list sent via email
May 24 -Last Day of School- Early Dismissal at 11:30 am
-Please ensure that you are making full effort to adhere to our uniform policy. Logos can be purchased through PTO. Please ensure that your child is in full uniform daily. Uniform policy details are available here: http://leadershippreparatoryacademy.org/enrollment/student_dress_code
-Please review the information under academic updates pertaining to homework to ensure that you are clear about expectations for homework. Students must complete the activities listed on the homework so that there is a reference on the analytics reports in order to receive credit. Homework assignments are graded for accuracy and completion. Please read and adhere to all directions listed on the assignments.
-Let's make sure that we are teaching our scholars to use proper hygiene (i.e. hand washing and covering coughs/sneezes) to ensure optimal health and wellness for all.
Wishlist Items:
kleenex, copy paper, Colrox/Lysol wipes, napkins, card stock paper, laminating sheets and sheet protectors (Sloan)
copy paper, paper towels and hand sanitizer (Williams)
copy paper, sanitizer and fine point expo markers (Alcock) *When preparing your child's lunch/snack or when making donations, please keep in mind that there are some people with nut allergies in this classroom.
*All donations of wishlist items may be used towards your volunteer hours- 1 hour/$10 spent. Volunteer Contract information is available on our school website.
-Dismissal begins promptly at 3:15 p.m. There will be a late fee charged of $1/minute for students who are picked up late. Outstanding balances may impact your child's ability to participate in activities that require fees.
-Continue to check your email, our weekly E-blast, and our school website http://leadershippreparatoryacademy.org/ regularly for updates and important resources and information.
-In an effort to go green, paper copies of homework and most other
documents will not be sent. If you are having trouble accessing
documents that we send from your electronic devices and/or if you need something printed, then we would recommend a visit to your local library. A list can be found here
http://dekalblibrary.org/branches
-Please be mindful of our Civility Policy when communicating with your child's teacher and/or staff.
Thank you so much for all that you do. We look forward to a wonderful Week 39.
Class books are now published!!
Great news!! Your scholar(s) are now published authors. Thank you for all donations and support. We hope that you enjoy our finished products. If you would now like to purchase our class books, visit Studentreasures.com/OrderCopies
The pins for each class are as follows:
-Sloan: 7992273
-Williams:7992276
-Alcock:7992275Box Tops
Behavior management
Class Dojo
Used for behavior management along with our clip chart and ticket systems
PTO
We encourage all families to become partners with our PTO. Membership can be paid via Pay Pal to lpapto@gmail.com
Epic!
Get Epic! is a free reading safety net similar to Storia.
*Sloan's Classroom Sign In Code-EWC-8808
https://www.getepic.com/sign-in-studentACADEMIC UPDATES
All First Grade content standards are available on the georgiastandards.org website. This information helps to explain what students should know and be able to do by the end of the school year. Please make sure that you are familiar with your child's end of the year goals and are doing everything that you can to support your child with reaching their goals.
During this semester, more emphasis will be placed on sentence formatting, recognizing parts of speech within sentences, and reading comprehension.
We encourage you to spiral review all semester one concepts taught regularly to ensure that the information is retained. Feel free to research videos, books, interactive games, safety nets, and other resources to support your child as needed.
Please continue to have your child practice handwriting daily using the correct format (capitalization, spacing, spelling, punctuation, and penmanship). Tall letters should be tall, short letters should be short, and long letters should be long. Capital letters should only be used at the beginning of sentences and for proper nouns. A sample of tall, short, and long letters on primary lines is here: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--nL2rxQPIP0/UgKNv4dXXhI/AAAAAAAAEi0/kKnFPJYTgOk/s1600/Testy+Handwriting+Mini-Poster+Thumbnail.jpg
During semester two, students should be transitioning to paragraph level writing and expanding sentences. Encourage them to identify where a thought begins and ends when writing to ensure proper capitalization and punctuation. Students should now be able to compose informational, opinion and explanatory writing pieces and identify the difference between each.
In order for us to have a successful year academically, we need your
full support. If we send messages, work samples, and/or incomplete assignments with specific details of struggle areas, please continue to work on those things at home until mastered.
Parents, we want to ensure that we developing well rounded leaders for
the 21st century. We truly appreciate the support that students receive
with things such as homework and projects, however, we ask that you
allow the student to complete the work (especially the writing and developing sentences). This way they have a sense of pride about accomplishing something on their own. This also gives them an opportunity to practice and self correct. Practice makes perfect! Make sure that they are familiar with the information that they have
to present as well. Expectations for our scholars must remain high on all
ends.
Homework will be posted on our school website on Mondays and will need to be signed and returned to your child's teacher electronically on Fridays by 12 p.m for recording purposes. NO late work will be accepted. Please refer to our First Grade Second Semester Syllabus as needed. As a friendly reminder, we do receive a weekly report for completion on all electronic platforms. Homework will now count as a percentage towards grades.
When administering the practice spelling test at home, please ensure that your child is writing in the correct format. Penmanship is very important so practice handwriting daily. Letters should be written in the correct format (tall, short, or long) on the correct part of the lines. Students need to write in all lowercase letters unless it is a proper/specific noun (such as I). Words with improper capitalization and backwards letters will be counted as incorrect responses. We will continue to refer to students to the letter resources that are available on the classroom walls to verify that their letters are going the correct way.
Please ensure that your child is familiar with key terms related to addition and subtraction and that they are able to solve problems using multiple strategies. Additional support with missing addends would be very beneficial. Many students struggle with this concept.
MOBYMAX, IXL, READWORKS and SPLASHMATH (Safety Nets)
You received login information for Mobymax https://www.mobymax.com/ga877
and IXL https://www.ixl.com/signin/lpa via email. Access the safety net Splashmath here: https://www.splashmath.com/students/signin. ReadWorks can be accessed here: www.readworks.org/student
It is very imperative that you allow your child to complete all pretests independently. This is important because the system will set their activities to their levels once the pretests are complete.
MAY BIRTHDAY SHOUT OUTS
Troy 5/6
Jahmir 5/25
Lennox 5/28
LEARNING FOCUS
-Identifying letters and all sounds for the alphabet
-Naming words that begin and/or end with each letter sound
-Identifying blends, digraphs, double vowels, diphthongs, etc and generating words for each (see Sound Office)
-Story elements: characters, settings, author/illustration (the purpose of each), key details, main idea, problem and solution.
-Directionality (left to right/top to bottom) when reading and writing text
-Reading fluency and comprehension using text evidence. Reading comprehension comparing and contrasting two passages. This is an area of struggle for most students and major component of all post assessments.
-Writing (and speaking) in complete sentences using the correct format (spacing, spelling, capitalization, punctuation, penmanship), Identifying the first and last word within a sentence, word count in sentences, parts of speech with a sentence and identifying ending punctuation marks
-Determining asking vs. telling sentences
-Rhyming, syllables, onset/rime blending and segmenting, CVC/CVCC segmenting and blending (C-consonant V-vowel)
-Synonyms and antonyms
-alphabetical order
-homophones
-prepositional phrases, prepositions, adjectives, nouns, verbs, possessive nouns, plural nouns, compound words and contractions
-Prefixes and suffixes
-Paragraph level writing; informational, narrative and opinion writing
-Counting 0-120+ rote and from any given number
-Number of the Day (representing in word form, tallies, ten frames, place value, identifying one more/less, identifying ten more/less, identifying whether the number is even or odd and representing with coins) Please ensure that your child has a strong understanding of one more/less and ten more/less for any given number up to 120. Use IXL as needed for mastery.
-Addition and subtraction using multiple strategies including word problems (up to 100+) including base ten representation and conversion for addition/subtraction. Assessments this week
- Addition doubles and fact families
-Data interpretation (creating tally charts, generating equations based on the data, identifying 'how many more', explaining in complete sentences how an answer was derived). This is an area of struggle for most students and major component of pre/post assessments.
-Remaining semester review for Math: Measurement (standard and nonstandard), Time (digital and analog using hour, half hour and quarter hour. Also elapsed time.) and money/coins
-Remaining semester review for Social Studies: American heroes, Identify and understand different geographical landforms such as a: river, lake, mountain, island, ocean, valley, desert, plateau, volcano, and waterfall.
-Remaining semester review for Science: Identify and understand different habitats and ecosystems including a: tundra, desert, forest, ocean, pond, and savanna and their relationship to plant/animal needs.