Family Please note if your student is in DLI: Spanish MAP testing takes place this week. Please make sure your student is well rested and ready to do their best! We also have DLI Night on 9/14/23!

We are looking for tissue paper donations for our classrooms as part of our Hispanic Heritage Month celebration! More details and pictures to come!

If you have not yet signed up for PTA, it is $10.00. PTA helps our school put on events such as the Fall and Spring Festivals, Field Day, and daily snacks for the students at Park Street.

Please remember to send your students with a water bottle, and tennis shoes every day! We do a lot of running and playing and we want to make sure your student is prepared.

Please note the dress code section at the bottom of this newsletter.

Please also remember to send headphones with your child as part of the supply list. Headphones should go over your child's ears and plug into the computer. It is very important that all students have headphones as we use them daily in the classroom!

Parents of Kindergarten and First Grade students, please put a change of clothes, in a gallon ziplock bag, in each of your students bookbags. This change of clothes is in the case of an accident, and should stay in their bag incase it is needed. Having a change of clothes in your students backpack helps office staff from running out of clothes, your student not be embarrassment of having to wear clothes that may not fit them correctly, or having to call parents to bring a change of clothes.

Kindergarten and First grade go to the restroom as a class multiple times a day, however accidents happen, in the case of it, we want your student to feel prepared and comfortable.

Reading: Last week we continued with our second unit "Me on a Map". Students engaged with visual representations, informational text such as articles and secondary sources, to learn about where we live and the environment around us.

Phonics: We will be finished up our work with blends, focusing on final consonant blends. We continued practicing blending, segmenting sounds, and writing.

Writing: We continued working on informational writing, doing a deep dive into the important parts of informational writing such as the introduction. Students practiced and explored informational text and how they can be used to to assist in writing.

Math: Using their background knowledge of 10s, 1s and teen numbers, students continued to work through framework task to help engage, explore, apply, and reflect on mathematical concepts, while exploring place value.

Social Studies: Continuing with landforms from the previous week, students worked on where different landforms are located, the different continents and oceans, and map keys.

Vocabulary Words for the Week:

Element: a part of something

Location: a particular place

Features: an important part

Direction - a way to go or a way to look

Map - a drawing of an area of the earth or sky

Symbol - an object or shape that gives meaning.

Globe - a map in the shape of a ball

Reading: We are continuing with our unit "Me on a Map" focusing specifically on continents and oceans.

Phonics: In phonics we are moving onto the FLSZ rule and -all, -ull, and -oll. The FLSZ rull is any word with a short vowel sound ending in l,f,s,z we double the final letter. We will be practicing blending, segmenting sounds, and writing.

Writing: We will continue working on informational writing. Students will practice and explore informational text and how they can be used to to assist in writing. We will be continuing our deep dive into the parts of informational writing focusing on details, transitions, and conclusions.

Math: Using our framework task and supporting resources and background knowledge, students will begin looking into measurement. Students will be measuring and comparing quantities, lengths and numbers.

Social Studies: Students will take a closer look into the parts of our earth including continents, oceans, countries, and states.

Vocabulary Words for the Week:

Continent: A continuous expanse of land

Except: Not including

Chunk: something that was broken off of something else

Continent: 7 large areas of land on Earth

Atlas: a book containing maps

Globe: a ball shaped map of the world

Land: solid part of Earth’s surface

Continue to focus on building positive evening routines such as: reading together, talking about your day, and going to bed on time.

Have students create groups of tens and practice counting by tens and ones up to 120.

Have students start at any number between 0-120 and count on, students should be able to fluently start counting from any point by 1s and 10s.

Practice handwriting at home and spelling high frequency words such as: said, ask, you, their, six, two, who was, ran

Make sure you and your student are going over homework and practicing concepts within the packets given out on Mondays. The homework packets represent skills that we will be working on during the week. While we are not grading homework, it is important that your student is completing the homework on their own/ with your help. This is a great time for siblings to work together, have your first graders older sibling assist them to also reinforce concepts.

Check out The Reading Buddies:

https://www.thereadingleague.org/reading-buddies/

Brains On Podcast:

https://www.brainson.org/

Math Games based on Standards: This can be used for students of all ages and math skills

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/counting

Parents: Read this article (available in Spanish) to find out why it is important to read to your child in their home language.

Why Reading to Your Kids in Your Home Language Will Help Them Become Better Readers

What is EIP?

The Early Intervention Program (EIP) is one of Georgia's educational reform initiatives to improve student learning and academic success. The primary goal of this program is to offer immediate assistance and additional instruction to help students succeed academically in the areas of reading and mathematics. A student's EIP status is determined on a number of factors depending on what grade the student is entering.

Learners who qualify as EIP will have letters sent home this week. Parents should read the letter, sign, and return it to school indicating that they are aware of their child's EIP status.

For more information please use the QR code to visit www.gadoe.org.

DLI families:

DLI students will be taking Math Map assessment in Spanish. On Tuesday will be 1B and on Wednesday 1A. The assessments will be just in the morning. Please continue practicing counting 1-120 forwards and backwards(1 by 1 and 10 by 10), letters name and sounds. I sent a hundred chart and a syllable sheet for them to practice every day.

Hope I can see everyone on Thursday, September 14, 2023 for the DLI night.

Thank you for your support!!.

Check out: Arbol ABC at arbolabc.com

9/20: Fall Picture Day

9/25-9/29: FALL BREAK

10/6: Coffee with the Principal

10/12: PTA Literacy Night

10/16-10/20: Book Fair

10/16-10/20: Conference Week

10/23-10/27: Red Ribbon Week

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. Also please have your students bring a jacket to school if they get cold easily. While it is hot outside, it can get chilly inside the school building.

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