5 / 17 / 24

 📣 ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Students need to bring a water bottle with name on a daily basis for proper hydration!
• Please make sure they have utensils in their lunchboxes, if needed.
• Reminder about lunch drinks - please no glass bottles, soda cans, Kool-Aid, or fountain drinks. Thank you.
• From Nurse Spanbauer:  Parents - please come by and pick up your child's medication (if they have any) before the end of school. You can contact the nurse by email (SSpanbauer@chandlerprep.org) if you have any questions or concerns.

💡DATES TO REMEMBER

May 21 - 24: Half day dismissal @ 12:30pm

May 23rd - Half-day - First grade Mexican party (see Sign-up-Genius for ways to help); half day dismissal @ 12:30pm

May 24th - Last day of school/half day dismissal @ 12:30pm

Note: There are no more clubs for the remainder of the year. Students need to be picked up at dismissal unless they are an athenaeum scholar. If your scholar is in athenaeum, please be sure they have a lunch and a snack for the afternoon. Thank you.

📕 SPALDING: Please continue to review phonogram cards over the summer to keep your child’s skills ready for second grade.

📕 LITERATURE: We read Rikki-Tikki-Tavi in class. We learned how mongooses act when snakes come around and that Rikki-Tikki-Tavi was a hero. We also read the Chinese version of Cinderella called Yeh Shen. On Monday, we will compare their similarities and differences and practiced using the Venn diagram. We will also finish our last literature project of the year by recalling the scenes from the story and creating a panel art similar to the style of the illustrator.

Thank you for your continued support in volunteering to read with the students.  

📕 POETRY: Review of our poem - The Village Blacksmith - this week. Poetry recitations continued throughout the week.

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MATH: We concluded the end of the year tests this week. 

📕 HISTORY: We began learning about the culture, geography and celebrations in Mexico. We will make papel picado to decorate our room with for the party. 

📕 SCIENCE: We started to learn about stars and constellations. We will get to make our own constellation. 

1st Grade Teachers 

  

5 / 10 / 24

📣 ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Students need to bring a water bottle with name on a daily basis for proper hydration!
• Please make sure they have utensils in their lunchboxes, if needed.
• Reminder about lunch drinks - please no glass bottles, soda cans, Kool-Aid, or fountain drinks. Thank you.

💡DATES TO REMEMBER

May 15th: Spring Concert/Fine Arts Night

May 21 - 24: Half day dismissal @ 12:30pm

May 23rd - Half-day - First grade Mexican party (see Sign-up-Genius for ways to help); half day dismissal @ 12:30pm

May 24th - Last day of school/half day dismissal @ 12:30pm

Note: There are no more clubs for the remainder of the year. Students need to be picked up at dismissal unless they are an athenaeum scholar. If your scholar is in athenaeum, please be sure they have a lunch and a snack for the afternoon. Thank you.

📕 SPALDING: We have completed all lessons in Spalding for first grade! Please continue to review phonogram cards over the summer to keep your child’s skills ready for second grade.

📕 LITERATURE: This week, we read the classic fairy tale of Cinderella. We also made crafts and cards for our mothers (superheroes).

📕 POETRY: Review of our poem - The Village Blacksmith - this week. Poetry recitations start on Monday.

Thank you for your continued support in volunteering to read with the students.  

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MATH: We had our final review on time, and took our chapter and cumulative tests. Next week, scholars will be having an end-of-the-year Singapore test of all the skills we learned in first grade.

📕 HISTORY: This week, we closed our West Exploration Unit. They took home the lap books that they have been working on the past weeks. Have them teach you what they have learned. On Monday, we will start on our study on our last unit of the year, The Culture of Mexico!

📕 SCIENCE: This week, we wrapped up our lesson on planets and solar system, and created craft about it.

The students are also starting to bring home some of their class books and notebooks. Please have them empty out their backpacks - ready to fill with other things to come home.

Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers! We appreciate you ♥️

1st Grade Teachers 

  

5 / 3 / 24

4/29/24 - 5/3/24

📣 ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Students need to bring a water bottle with name on a daily basis for proper hydration!
• Please make sure they have utensils in their lunchboxes, if needed.
• Reminder about lunch drinks - please no glass bottles, soda cans, Kool-Aid, or fountain drinks. Thank you.
• As we are coming closer to the end of the school year, I ask that families be aware of a few challenges to morning drop off on the North side. There has been an increase in student drivers who need to park in the uncovered spaces near the Warner entrance. The spaces in front of the academies are for visitors and volunteers. The covered spaces are reserved for faculty and staff. If you wish to walk your student to the building, I ask that you enter from Alma School and temporarily park in front of the Archway Chandler entrance and drop off your student. Thank you for your partnership in this matter.                 Sincerely, Mrs. Brady

💡DATES TO REMEMBER

May 3rd: NO SCHOOL 

May 15th: Spring Concert/Fine Arts Night

May 21 - 24: Half day dismissal @ 12:30pm

May 23rd - Half-day - First grade Mexican party (see Sign-up-Genius for ways to help); half day dismissal @ 12:30pm

May 24th - Last day of school/half day dismissal @ 12:30pm

We have an exciting announcement to make! On Wednesday, the 8th, we will be hosting our highly anticipated End of the Year Assembly. This event is where we will announce the Kingdom Winner, we will also be unveiling our New Guardians for the upcoming academic year of 24-25. 

We invite all our scholars to participate by wearing the Kingdom Shirt on that day. Alternatively, they can wear any shirt in their Kingdom color (please avoid pop culture references). However, we kindly request that the rest of the uniform remains unchanged. 

We would like to take this opportunity to express our sincere gratitude for your support throughout this year's Kingdoms program. 

📕 SPALDING: We have one more list of 10 words in Spalding to complete this next week. We will review those words on Tuesday and have a spelling word test on Wednesday. Regular phonogram tests will be completed the 10th and 17th. Please continue to have your child review their phonogram cards over the summer to keep your child’s skills ready for second grade.

📕 LITERATURE: This week, we read about the story of Sam the Minuteman.

Thank you for your continued support in volunteering to read with the students.  Check your teachers page below to sign up. Only a few slots remain until the year is complete.

Mrs. Aguayo 

https://signup.com/go/zJZazGK

Mrs. Santiago 

https://signup.com/go/yPrHdtQ

Ms. Baines 

https://signup.com/go/hwgGLhR

Poetry:

The Village Blacksmith

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Under a spreading chestnut-tree

     ⁠The village smithy stands;

The smith, a mighty man is he,

     With large and sinewy hands,

And the muscles of his brawny arms

     Are strong as iron bands.

His hair is crisp, and black, and long;

     His face is like the tan;

His brow is wet with honest sweat,

     He earns whate'er he can,

And looks the whole world in the face,

     For he owes not any man.

Week in, week out, from morn till night,

     You can hear his bellows blow;

You can hear him swing his heavy sledge,

     With measured beat and slow,

Like a sexton ringing the village bell,

     When the evening sun is low.

And children coming home from school

     Look in at the open door;

They love to see the flaming forge,

     And hear the bellows roar,

And catch the burning sparks that fly

     Like chaff from a threshing-floor.

He goes on Sunday to the church,

     And sits among his boys;

He hears the parson pray and preach,

     He hears his daughter's voice

Singing in the village choir,

     And it makes his heart rejoice.

It sounds to him like her mother's voice

     Singing in Paradise!

He needs must think of her once more,

     How in the grave she lies;

And with his hard, rough hand he wipes

     A tear out of his eyes.

Toiling,—rejoicing,—sorrowing,

     Onward through life he goes;

Each morning sees some task begin,

     Each evening sees it close;

Something attempted, something done,

     Has earned a night's repose.

Thanks, thanks to thee - my worthy friend,

    For the lesson thou hast taught!

Thus at the flaming forge of life

    Our fortunes must be wrought;

Thus on its sounding anvil shaped

    Each burning deed and thought.

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MATH: We learned about telling, writing and drawing time in numbers and words (o'clock and half past). 

📕 HISTORY: Students are listening to this book being read. This book talks about the journey of Lewis and Clark from a dog's perspective.

📕 SCIENCE: This week, we continued to learn about the solar system particularly Mercury, Venus, and Earth - the inner planets.

The students are also starting to bring home some of their class books and notebooks. Please ensure that backpacks are emptied out before they come back to school.

1st Grade Teachers