Please make sure that you send students picture day money with them to school on 9/19. We cannot accept money before picture day. Students will turn it in when they go for pictures.

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.

9/19: Fall Picture Day

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

10/14-10/18: Conference week (early dismissal at 1:15pm)

10/14-10/18: Book Fair

Great info on how to incorporate storytelling as part of your everyday life:

English:

https://www.colorincolorado.org/article/getting-ready-read-using-storytelling-rhymes-and-more

Spanish:

https://www.colorincolorado.org/es/articulo/historias-familiares

Fact Families: fact families are related addition and subtraction facts that use the same numbers. Fact families help kids understand the relationship between addition and subtraction. For example, using the numbers 8, 5, and 13, students can produce two addition number sentences and 2 related subtraction sentences.

See the fact family and video below.

5 + 8 = 13

8 + 5 = 13

13 - 5 = 8

13 - 8 = 5

BrainPop Jr: Fact Families

Hello Park Street Parents!

This is Ms. Flanagin, 1st grade reading specialist.

Fall is in the air and it’s the perfect time to be outside with your children. Here are some activities you can do with your children as you take a walk or play in the park.

Help you child find leaves that are changing color. Ask them to describe the leaves to you using complete sentences. For example, you might say, “ I see a gigantic yellow leaf!” Then your child could say, “ I see a tiny brown leaf.”

Continue to describe things you see, smell, and feel as you spend time in the beautiful Autumn outside!

Another way to build your child’s oral language is by introducing them to new and unusual words. For example, instead of saying the leaf is red, use the word scarlet. Or you might describe the cool breeze as being chilly. The more new words you can introduce to your child, the greater their vocabulary will become!

Students should be reading at home every night.

Please make sure students are practicing the fluency homework that is being sent home. Students will be practicing the same passage for approximately 7 school days. (This is a passage form the text we are reading in class.)

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.

Please make sure that your students are practicing their syllables, numbers, and alphabet in both English and Spanish.

Check out: Arbol ABC at arbolabc.com

Reading: This week we finished our text "My Librarian is a Camel". Students learned how real countries get access to books, taking a closer look into different countries, cultures, and access to books.

Phonics: This week students learned about CVCe words like, poke, pete, tote, eve; with a focus on the long O and long E sounds.

Writing: Students created an informational writing piece and used a sentence checklist for revising their work.

Math: Students took a look at gathering data, representing data, and analyzing data.

Social Studies: We focused on animals, and what they need to survive. Students began learning about different types of animals and their needs.

Reading: This week we will begin looking at a new text "That Book Woman", and participating in a Socratic Seminar.

Phonics: Students will continue working on CVCe pattern working with magic e, reviewing all long vowel sounds.

Writing: Students will begin looking at narrative writing, and creating their own narratives.

Math: Students will review all of the skills from unit 1 to prepare for their unit 1 assessment at the end of the week.

Social Studies: We will be continuing our unit focusing animals, and their habitats.

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.