Hello First Grade Families!

Here is a look at our 6th week of school:

Take Home Folders: This Folder is to be sent between home and school in your First Grader's backpack. This week, you will find our Homework for the week along with a list with the week’s spelling words to practice at home.

Homework: Your student’s Homework Packet will be sent home every Monday. Your child may work on Homework each night of the week, and then return the Homework Packet on Friday. Please read with your First Grader for twenty minutes each night, and practice the weekly Spelling Words.

Language Arts: We will continue Unit Two in our Benchmark Curriculum. Unit Two focuses on characters and story elements. We will be working on short “U” words. We will work on writing complete sentences, using all punctuations and when to capitalize. We will be describing the characters and the settings in the stories we read. We will take a reading comprehension assessment on Friday.

This week's spelling words are; run, must, stuck, tug, mud, huff, duck, plus, yum & shut. Spelling test will be on Friday. Please practice these spelling words with your child nightly.

Math: We begin Unit Two in our Everyday Math curriculum. Unit Two focuses on counting and number models, reviewing skills like counting on, making pairs to 10, using ten-frames, and basic addition and subtraction within 20. It also includes topics such as writing numbers, tally marks, and potentially telling time by the hour. The curriculum builds a conceptual understanding of addition and subtraction while reinforcing number patterns and place value.

Social Studies: This week we will continue a unit on how cultures change over time.

Upcoming Events:

• October 7, 2025 Grandparents Breakfast
• October 16^th and 17^th MEA Break-No school for students
• October 22, 2025 Unity Day
• October 27-30, 2025 Book Fair
• October 28, 2025 Bingo for Books

Reminders:

• Send a healthy snack with your student daily.
• Make sure your child has shoes for fitness. We go to fitness on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
• Send weather appropriate clothing with your child daily as we will go outside for recess daily.
• Please make sure your child is reading and working on sight words every night.
• Please communicate with the front office about any end of the day transportation changes by 2:00 o’clock PM.
• Please make sure you are checking your child’s red take home folder nightly. Please take out student work nightly and remember to help your student complete their work for the day.

  The partnership in your child’s education is very valuable... please don’t hesitate to reach out at any time.

  Thank you,

  Sara Gray

  Grade 1 Teacher

  Room 228

  Phone: (763) 777-8942 ext. 8809

  Email: [email protected]

  Website: [email protected]

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Hello First Grade Families!

Here is a look at our 7th week of school:

Language Arts: We will work on characters, settings, and the main idea of the stories we read.

This week's spelling words will be reviewing words we have already learned this year. The review spelling words are; you, sell, neck, frog, kids, with, pick, kicks, pack, ask, stuck, & must. No Spelling Test this week.

Math: This week we will continue unit two in our Everyday Math Curriculum. Unit Two focuses on counting and number models, reviewing skills like counting on, making pairs to 10, using ten-frames, and basic addition and subtraction within 20. It also includes topics such as writing numbers, tally marks, and telling time by the hour. The curriculum builds a conceptual understanding of addition and subtraction while reinforcing number patterns and place value.

Social Studies: This week we will continue a unit on how cultures change over time. We will learn how human culture changes in the past, present and future.

Science: We will review life cycles. 

Upcoming Events:

• October 16^th and 17^th MEA Break-No school for students
• October 22, 2025 Unity Day
• October 27-30, 2025 Book Fair
• October 28, 2025 Bingo for Books

Reminders:

• Send a healthy snack with your student daily.
• Make sure your child has shoes for fitness. We go to fitness on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
• Send weather appropriate clothing with your child daily, we will go outside for recess daily.
• Please make sure your child is reading and working on sight words every night.
• Please communicate with the front office about any end of the day transportation changes by 2:00 o’clock PM.
• Please make sure you are checking your child’s red take home folder nightly. Please take out student work nightly. Students should bring their homework folder to school daily.

The partnership in your child’s education is very valuable... please don’t hesitate to reach out at any time.

Thank you,

Sara Gray

Grade 1 Teacher

Room 228

Phone: (763) 777-8942 ext. 8809

Email: [email protected]

Website: [email protected]

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Hello First Grade Families!

Here Is a look at the week of September 15-19:

Take Home Folders: This Folder is to be sent between home and school in your First Grader's backpack. This week, you will find our Homework for the week along with a list with the week’s spelling words to practice at home.

Homework: Your student’s Homework Packet will be sent home every Monday. Your child may work on Homework each night of the week, and then return the Homework Packet on Friday. Please read with your First Grader for twenty minutes each night, and practice the weekly Spelling Words.

Language Arts: This week we will continue to learn about life cycles and how living things grow and change. We will be working on short “I” words, and we will work on writing complete sentences and capitalization. We will also be describing the characters in the stories we read.

This week's spelling words are: lids, kids, him, hit, sit, big, with, pick, kick, & little. Our spelling test will be on Friday. Please practice these spelling words with your child nightly.

Math: We will be working on our beginning of the year FastBridge assessments, as well as beginning our McGraw Hill Math curriculum. We are learning to count forwards and backwards 1-100 and solving simple addition problems. We are discussing math strategies we can utilize to help solve math problems.

Social Studies: We will be learning about citizenship: about being good citizens in our school and our communities. We will plan our goals and our hopes and dreams for the school year and the future.

Reminders:

• Send a healthy snack with your student daily.
• Make sure your child has shoes for Fitness. We go to Fitness on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
• Send weather appropriate clothing with your child daily; we will go outside for recess twice a day.
• Please make sure your child is reading and working on homework every night.
• Please communicate with the front office about any end of the day transportation changes by 2:00 PM.

The partnership in your child’s education is very valuable... please don’t hesitate to reach out at any time.

Thank you,

Sara Gray

Grade 1 Teacher

Room 228

Phone: (763) 777-8942 ext. 8809

Email: [email protected]

Website: [email protected]

Take Home Folders: On Monday, September 8, I will be sending a red Take Home Folder home with your First Grader in their backpack. This Folder is to be sent between home and school. This week, you will find our Homework for the week along with a list with the week’s spelling words to practice at home. 

Homework: Your student’s Homework Packet will be sent home every Monday. Your child may work on Homework each night of the week, and then return the Homework Packet to school on Fridays. Please read with your First Grader for twenty minutes each night, and practice the weekly Spelling Words.

Please reach out if you have any questions,