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: jkreminski

Click their name

Student passwords are their student ID/lunch number.

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 dose 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 red homework folder daily. The side marked school needs to be completed and come back to school. The items on the 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.

Jeleah Kreminski

First Grade Educator

 Room 233

[email protected]