Athlos Leadership Academy

Fowell - Room 230

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MN Sports Day FRIDAY!

YAY!  Your student has been working so hard at memorizing red and green sight words!!  We have also been practicing CVC words like POT and CVCe words like RIDE.  Our class is going to have a "reading to my stuffed animal party" on FRIDAY!  Your child my bring ONE stuffed animal to school on Friday to celebrate all their hard work :)
 
On a side note, the RAZ KIDS link was wrong in the last post.  Please google Raz Kids and click on kids login. You can download the app then your child will login under my user name :lfowell and put in their password.
Thanks,
Ms Fowell

Sept 25-29

Look at the Week September 24th

Hello first grade families!

Math: We will finish unit one in our Everyday Math curriculum. We will be reviewing for the unit assessment Monday and taking the unit one assessment on Tuesday. Wednesday we will begin unit two. We will be learning about partners of ten this week.

Homework: We will have math homework activity every day.

LA: This week we will complete unit one in our new Benchmark curriculum. We will be learning how living things grow and change. We will also be describing characters in the stories we read. We will be working on end punctuation and sentence structure while creating complete sentences. We will be working on short o and spelling short o words. On Friday we will be taking our third reading comprehension and end punctuation assessment.

Homework: Make sure your child is reading and working on sight words for at least twenty minutes each night. Sight word levels will be tested this week. Each student has a goal to pass their sight word list by the end of the week.

Please have your student read online on their Razkids account.

To use student account login to:

https://www.kidsa-z.com/main/Login

Teacher: lfowell

Click their name

Student should know their password.  Please let me know if you need this!

Students use this sight at school so they should be familiar with login in.

Reading Skills: This week we will be learning to spell three letter words with short o.  We will read words with ch in them. If your child does not know their letter names and sounds PLEASE review them daily.

Science: We will be learning how parents are similar to their off spring. We will learn about the life cycle of plants. Science experiment: We have planted seeds, we will observe the plant life cycle as it moves through each state.

Reminders:

Students will come home with a yellow homework folder daily. The side marked bring back needs to be completed and come back to school. The items on the stay home side should be taken out each night and left at home. Students will have a math activity to complete each night that is due the next school day. Completion of home work is required and graded.  Students will have a set of the sight words they need to learn kept in homework folder, please work on sight words nightly with your student.  Students will be tested on their sight words this week they should be passing on to the next level, if passed your student will come home with a new set of sight words to learn.

Send a healthy snack with your student each day.

Make sure students have gym shoes daily. Students can leave an extra pair at school if they’d like.

Make sure you let the front office know of changes to bus or parent pick up.

Up Coming Events:

Sept. 29 Minnesota Sports Day-Free dress day for all students

Grand Parents breakfast Oct. 10th

Oct. 17 Bingo for Books-families welcome after school event

Oct. 18 Unity Day-wear orange to spread unity

Oct. 27 Super Hero Day-Free dress day for all students

Oct. 30- Nov. 3 Book Fair-Students may purchase books

Nov. 2 Picture Retake Day

Have a great week.

Let me know if you have any questions or concerns! Email is the best way to communicate.

Laura Fowell

First Grade Educator

 Room 230

[email protected]

Hello first grade families!

We have had a great first couple of weeks! We are enjoying getting to know each other and school routines.

Math: We will continue unit one in our Everyday Math curriculum. We will be reviewing skills learned in kindergarten. We will be reviewing number sense, adding on number lines and tally marks. We will have math homework every day.

 

LA: This week we will continue our new Benchmark curriculum. We will be learning about living things and life cycles. We will be working on sentence structure while creating complete sentences. We will find the main idea of the stories we read. On Friday we will be taking our second reading comprehension assessment.

Homework: Make sure your child is reading and working on sight words for at least twenty minutes each night.

 

Reading Skills: This week we will be reviewing letter names and sounds, CVC words and making three letter words.

Science: We will begin our new science curriculum. We will be learning about life cycles.

Reminders:

Students will come home with a yellow homework folder daily. The side marked bring back needs to be completed and come back to school. The items on the stay home side should be taken out each night and left at home. Students will have a math activity to complete each night that is due the next school day. Completion of home work is required and graded. Students will have a set of the sight words they need to learn kept in homework folder, please work on sight words nightly with your student.

Send a healthy snack with your student each day.

Make sure students have gym shoes daily. Students can leave an extra pair at school if they’d like.

Make sure you let the front office know of changes of bus or parent pick up changes.

Up Coming Events:

Picture day is September 21st. This will be a free dress day for all students.

Grand Parents day Oct. 10th (deadline for families to submit RSVP forms to is Friday, September 22nd)

Have a great week.

Let me know if you have any questions or concern.

Ms Fowell

Contact info: [email protected]
763-777-8942 ext:8810

 

Hello first grade families!

We had a fun first week of school! It was so nice getting to know each other!

Math: We will begin unit one in our Everyday Math curriculum. In unit one we will be reviewing skills learned in kindergarten. We will be reviewing number sense, adding on number lines and tally marks. We will have math homework every day.

LA: This week we will begin our new Benchmark curriculum. We will be learning about living things and life cycles. We will be working on sentence structure while creating complete sentences. We will find the main idea of the stories we read.

Homework: Make sure your child is reading and working on sight words for at least twenty minutes each night.  I sent home 4 books with your child tonight!  Please use those to reread each night.  The more we practice the better reader we become.:)

Reading Skills: This week we will be reviewing letter names and sounds, CVC words and making three letter words.  We are also learning the silent e words.  Ask your child what that reading rule is!

Reminders:

Students will come home with a yellow homework folder daily. The side marked bring back needs to be completed and come back to school the next day. The items on the stay home side should be taken out each night and left at home. Students will have a math activity to complete each night that is due the next school day. Completion of home work is required and graded. Students will have a set of the sight words they need to learn kept in homework folder and paper books, please work on sight words and reading nightly with your student.

Send a healthy snack with your student each day!

Make sure students have gym shoes daily. Students can leave an extra pair at school if they’d like.

Make sure you let the front office know of changes of bus or parent pick up changes.

Up Coming Events:

PICTURE DAY!! Thurs. Sept. 21st

Grand Parents day Oct. 10th (deadline for families to submit RSVP forms to is Friday, September 22nd)

Have a great week.

Let me know if you have any questions or concerns! Email is the best way to communicate!

Contact info:

[email protected]
763-777-8942 ext:8810

September 5-8 Welcome Back to School!

Hello first grade families!

Welcome to the first week of school! It was so nice meeting all of you at welcome night!  

This week we will be working on getting to know one another, classroom routines, and assessing student levels in reading and math. There will be no math homework this week.

Please began reading and working on sight words for at least fifteen minutes each night with your student. 

Important reminders:

First day of school September 5th, 2023.

Please send gym shoes daily, students can leave an extra pair at school.

Please send a healthy snack with your student daily.

If you did not attend open house please send school supplies with your student on the first day of school also PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO MY WEB PAGE FOR IMPORTANT INFORMATION THROUGH OUT THE SCHOOL YEAR!

Student Hours:

Monday – Thursday 7:30AM-3:30PM

Friday 7:30AM-12:00PM (Lunch Provided)

EXTENDED DAY HOURS:

Monday – Friday 6:30AM – 7:30AM

Monday-Thursday 3:30-5:00PM

Friday 12:00-5:00PM

Please email/call me if you have any questions!

Looking forward to an amazing school year!!!

Laura Fowell

Contact info: [email protected] 
763-777-8942 ext:8810

Room 230

First grade teacher