Hello first grade families! Can’t believe its already the sixth week of school!

Math: We will complete unit 2 in math. This week we will be memorizing partners of ten, adding by counting on starting at the biggest number, finding number partners on a tens chart, and compare numbers while using tally marks in graphs. Friday we will take the unit two assessment.

Homework: We will have math homework activity every day. This is mandatory and will be graded. Please make sure your student is completing their math homework nightly.

LA: This week we will continue unit two in our Benchmark reading curriculum. We will be reviewing what the character looks, feels, acts like, and something the character says in the story. We will be continue working on end punctuation, when to use capital letters, and creating complete sentences. On Friday we will have a reading comprehension test and spelling assessment. Help your child spell three letter words with u as the middle sound, such as: cut, put, cup, cub, but, bug, hug,

nut, sun, and mud. (Spelling assessment will not be in the grade book at this time).

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

Please have your student read online on their Razkids account at HOME!! If you need any help with this please check previous email or email me!

Reading Skills: This week we will be learning to spell three letter words with short u. We will make words with the oo sound. If your child dose not know their letter names and sounds PLEASE review them daily.

Science: We will be learning about patterns in animal behavior. We will continue to learn about the life cycle of plants. Science experiments: We have planted seeds, we will observe the plant life cycle as it moves through each state. We have been roll playing as adult parent birds.

We made bird nests and will play out the life cycle of a bird.

Reminders:

We go outside for recess twice daily, please make sure your child is dressed for the weather.

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 their homework folder and paper books, please work on books and sight words nightly with your student!

Up Coming Events:

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]

Look at the Week October 2^nd

Hello first grade families!

Math: We will continue unit 2 in math. This week we will be memorizing partners of ten, adding by counting on starting at the biggest number, comparing numbers while using tally marks in graphs.

Homework: We will have math homework activity every day.

LA: This week we will begin unit 2 in our reading curriculum.  We will be reviewing what the character looks, feels, acts like and something the character says in the story.  We will be continue working on end punctuation and complete sentences.  On Friday we will have a reading comprehension test, spelling and an end punctuation assessment. (Spelling assessment will not be in the grade book at this time).

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

Please have your student read online on their Razkids account.

To use student account login to:

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.  Please let me know if you child does not know their password.

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

Science: We will be learning about patterns in animal behavior. We will continue to learn about the life cycle of plants. Science experiments: We have planted seeds, we will observe the plant life cycle as it moves through each state. We have been roll playing as adult parent birds. We made bird nests and will play out the life cycle of a bird.

Reminders:

Students will come home with a yellow homework folder daily. The side marked bring 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:

Grand Parents breakfast Oct. 10^th

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]

Look at the Week September 24^th

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. 10^th

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

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 5^th, 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

Here is a snapshot of our last FULL week of school!

Math: We will be finishing Unit 9. The assessment at the end of the unit is a LONG assessment. We will be splitting it up over three days. Please make sure that your student is here all week. 

Remember: Homework is mandatory and graded. Homework is an important tool to help create neuro-pathways. If your student does not complete missing homework, they will be doing it in our detention room during fitness time. 

Language Arts: We will be continuing our final Language Arts unit. We will be comparing and contrasting the story of Cinderella from many different countries! 

Spelling words for this week. 

planted, winter, sung, cut, spring, sang, sing, plant, river, song

Grammar: We will be starting and finishing our descriptive paragraph using adjectives. 

Science: We will be letting our butterflies go on Tuesday. 

Upcoming School events:

May 23: Field Day

May 29: No School- Memorial Day

May 30: May Madness in the PM 5p-7p at school!!

June 1: All school and first grade talent shows

May 30-June 2: Book Fair

June 8: Last day of school

Look at the Week 5-8-23

May 1st-5th

Here is a snapshot of our week ahead!

Math: We will be continuing Unit 8. This week we will be touching on Shapes and continuing fractions. 

Remember: Homework is mandatory and graded. Homework is an important tool to help create neuro-pathways. If your student does not complete missing homework, they will be doing it in our detention room during fitness time. 

Language Arts: We will be writing an opinion paragraph. The topic is "Would you prefer to live in the past, present, or future, and why? 

Spelling: 

about, men, for, ran, man, run, was, that, his, led

Grammar: We will be having a "b" and "d" assessment on Thursday. The rest of the week we will be working on pronouns. 

Social Studies: this week we will be working on our opinion paragraph

Upcoming School events:

APRIL 21: Dress up day

APRIL 24: No School

APRIL 26: Como Zoo Field Trip

Other reminders and notes:

Field trip forms are due on FRIDAY!

Please make sure you have paid for the field trip on your parent portal!