MAP Testing starts this week! Please make sure your students are well rested, on time, and have eaten breakfast! Testing will start promptly at 9:00am.

Please make sure your students know how they are going home, and to let the front office know/ your child's teacher know if there are any changes.

Please pack a change of clothes for your students to keep in their backpacks. While we take many bathroom breaks throughout the day, accidents happen! By having a change of clothes in your students bag, it insures that your student has clothes they are comfortable changing into incase an accident happens. It also supports our clinic, who may be running low on extra clothes.

8/21-8/27: Vision2Learn Eye Exams

8/27-8/20: MAP Testing

9/2: NO SCHOOL: Labor Day

9/6: Grandparents Day Lunch

9/19: Fall Picture Day

9/23-9/27: FALL BREAK: NO SCHOOL

You don’t have to read in English to help your child become a better reader. Please check out the following article on how you can help your child by reading in your native language.

In English:

https://www.colorincolorado.org/article/why-reading-your-kids-your-home-language-will-help-them-become-better-readers

In Spanish:

https://www.colorincolorado.org/es/articulo/por-qu%C3%A9-leerles-sus-hijos-en-espa%C3%B1ol-los-ayudar%C3%A1-ser-mejores-lectores

Subitizing: subitizing is the ability to instantly recognize a number of objects without actually counting them. This helps your child build strong number sense skills. Watch the video below to help your child practice subitizing at home.

Jack Hartmann-subitize

Hello Park Street Parents,

This is Ms. Flanagin, first grade reading specialist. Please continue to check the newsletter for way to help your young readers at home!

Playing games is a great way to provide additional practice with early reading skills. Here are four games you can use to help provide practice with word recognition, spelling patterns, and letter-sound knowledge.

https://www.readingrockets.org/topics/activities/articles/six-games-reading#1-concentration

https://www.readingrockets.org/topics/activities/articles/six-games-reading#2-go-fish

https://www.readingrockets.org/topics/activities/articles/six-games-reading#3-old-maid

https://www.readingrockets.org/topics/activities/articles/six-games-reading#5-rhyming-games

Happy Reading!

Students should be reading at home every night.

Practice adding and subtracting problems within 10 and 20! Use things at home like beans, dried pasta, grapes, to help them add and take away!

Go over high frequency words with your students like:

the, I, a, said, to, do, of, see, he, be, me, from, look, book, are, was, you, what, have, your, want, no, go, so, goes, says, she, we

Make sure your students know how to preform self care acts: buttoning their pants, wiping their face, blowing their nose.

Brains On Podcast:

https://www.brainson.org/

Here are two videos to start practicing the Spanish alphabet and numbers at home!

Check out: Arbol ABC at arbolabc.com

Reading: This week we will continue our World of Books unit, finishing up the book "Tomas and the Library Lady" and started a new book "Waiting on the Biblioburro". Students learned about nouns, verbs, and how to take apart vocabulary words.

Phonics: We continued learning about digraphs, focusing on -ch and -th.

Writing: We began writing full sentences on our own through responses to reading, retelling stories, and working on sentence structure.

Math: We continued our Unit 1 in math. This week we did a deep dive into place value, tens, and ones.

Social Studies: We continued our Social Studies unit on geography. This week we learned about continents and oceans.

Reading: This week we will continue our World of Books unit, finishing up the book "Waiting on the Biblioburro" and starting a new book "My Librarian is a Camel". Students will learn more about present and past tense verbs, common and proper nouns, and how real countries get access to books.

Phonics: We will be starting a new skill this week focusing on the ending blends of -nk and -ng. We will also learn how the suffix -ing affects words.

Writing: We will continue our retelling of stories, incorporating writing into all areas of instructional learning, and begin writing narratives.

Math: We continued our Unit 1 in math. This week we will be working with adding and subtracting with numbers within 40. We will also work with balancing equations and figuring out if an equation is true or false.

Social Studies: We will be finishing up our first Social Studies unit this week! Students will be figuring out where they live in the world (city, county, state, country, continent, world).

At the Givebacks link below you will find our PTA School Spirit Store! Please check it out! All proceeds come right back to Park Street!

All students are expected to be in uniform. Fridays "Spirit Days" are the only days students should be out of uniform, on these days, students are still expected to wear Marietta/Park Street gear and be weather and school appropriate.

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