Thank you for coming to Curriculum Night!
💡DATES TO REMEMBER
- Mon, August 19th - start of Math Homework
- Mon, August 26th - start of Spalding Homework
- Friday, August 30th, Early dismissal at 12:30 (R&R Weekend)
- Monday, September 2nd - No school (Labor Day)
- Friday, September 6th - start of Reading Bags (leveled reader and sight words)
- Early dismissal at 12:30 (Teacher In-Service)Friday, September 20th -
- Friday, September 27th - Early dismissal at 12:30
- September 30th - October 8th - No school (FALL BREAK)
- Monday-Tuesday, October 7th-8th - Parent Teacher Conferences
💡REMINDERS:
1. The scholars should bring the following daily:
- Water bottle with name
- Healthy and dry snacks in front pocket
- Take Home folder (please make sure they empty it at home)
*They brought home a small backpack-shaped checklist of the things they need to bring every day. We will let you know during Curriculum night when they will bringing homework (Spalding homework, reading bag and Math workbook).
2. Bring the following if you haven't yet:
- Reading bag from Kindergarten (If you're new to Archway, please purchase one from the school website: https://archwaychandler.configio.com/pd/4188?source=search&returncom=productlist&cid=394&diid=4198#Detail)
- Parent questionnaire
- Literature books (Owl at Home, Bargain for Frances, My Father's Dragon, Bears on Hemlock Mountain, Frog and Toad)
3. Please review the Driveline procedure here: directionsforparentsdrivelin.docx We have also attached the file in the resources on the right side of this webpage.
💡WHAT WE ARE LEARNING THIS WEEK
📕 READING / LITERATURE: In September we will welcome parent volunteers into the classroom and begin daily reading and sight word practice at school and at home. Until then, we encourage you to continue reading with your child at home. If your child was at ACC in Kindergarten, please send in their reading bag. If you are new to the school, please order one through our school website (link above).
For the first unit in Literature, we read some fairy tales and practiced how to retell the stories. This week, we read Rapunzel, The Princess and the Pea, and The Frog Prince.
📕 LITERATURE / GRAMMAR: We continued our Fairy Tales Unit with Jack and the Beanstalk and Sleeping Beauty. We've been learning how to write sentences in our blue journals, and retelling stories in our own words. Ask your child to retell the stories to you! We have also been learning that nouns are names of persons, places, things or ideas. We differentiated common and proper nouns, and learned which one to capitalize.
📕 READING: We will welcome parent volunteers on Sept. 5th. Use your teacher's sign-up to volunteer to read with the students (see link in your teacher's page on top). Please send your child's reading bag by Monday August 26th if you haven't done so.
📕 SPALDING: We have been learning our first phonograms until oi. Check out the Spalding resources on this website to review letter formations, spelling/Spalding rules and phonogram list.
📕 MATHEMATICS: We continued to learn about our numbers 1-10, particularly comparing them and telling what 1 less or 1 more that number is. You can help reinforce this at home by playing number guessing games or arranging items in tens frames.
📕 SCIENCE: We are learning about the states of matter. Students created a foldable with the different states of matter. They sorted items into categories of either a solid, liquid, or gas. We talked about atoms as a smallest part of matter.
Have a great weekend!
1st Grade Team