No School Monday 9/2!

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.

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

Skip counting: skip counting is a method of counting forwards or backwards by numbers other than 1. For example, counting by 2s looks like: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20. 1st graders need to learn how to skip count by 2, 5, and 10. Skip counting helps kids become more efficient when counting large groups of numbers. Skip counting also helps kids develop their number sense by noticing patterns in numbers. See the videos below,

Jack Hartmann-count by 2s

Jack Hartmann-count by 5s

Jack Hartmann-count by 10s

Hello Park Street Parents,

It’s Ms. Flanagin, first grade reading specialist. If you are looking for a way to support your child’s reading development here is a fun game you can play as you’re driving, at the grocery store, or even at bedtime.

‘I Spy the Sound’ is a fun way to build phonics skills and phonemic awareness. In this variation of tnhe classic game, ‘I Spy’, ask your child to spy words that begin with a certain sound, rather than a letter. For example, “I spy with my little eye, something beginning with mmm.” You can also change the game by asking your child to spy something that rhymes with a certain word. For example, “I spy with my little eye something that rhymes with blue.”

Enjoy this time with your young learner!

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, talk, walk, were, could, would, should, or, for.

Have students practice telling you how many tens and ones are in numbers that you see in when you're at the store, at a park, or just at your home.

Have students practice rereading books that they are familiar with to practice fluency, reading rate, and reading with expression.

Check out: Arbol ABC at arbolabc.com

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

Phonics: We started a new skill this week focusing on the ending blends of -nk and -ng. We also learned about how the suffix -ing affects words.

Writing: We continued our retelling of stories, incorporating writing into all areas of instructional learning, and begin writing narratives. Students practiced using their sentence checklist to write a complete sentence including a subject and a verb.

Math: We continued our Unit 1 in math. Students worked on adding numbers to make new sets of ten, working with place value up to 30. Students also began balancing equations and figuring out if an equation is true or false.

Social Studies: We finished up our first Social Studies unit this week! Students learned about oceans and where they live in the world (city, county, state, country, continent, world).

Reading: This week we are continuing our study of "My Librarian is a Camel". Students will learn how real countries get access to books, Taking a closer look into different countries, cultures, and access to books.

Phonics: This week students will begin CVCe words like, cake, bite, plate, ride; with a focus on the long A and long I sounds.

Writing: Students will begin looking at informational writing, and how to make their own informational writing pieces.

Math: Students will be comparing numbers within 120, focusing on the vocabulary: greater than, less, than, equal to.

Social Studies: We are beginning a new unit this week focusing on plants and animals, and what they need to survive. This week students will be learning about the parts of a plant and what they need to survive.

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.