Welcome back families! I hope you had a lovely week off with your first grader. We have a short week, but we will be jumping right back into classroom expectations, routines, and learning.

The penny wars end on Wednesday. All of the proceeds from our Penny Wars fundraiser will go to the Amity Foundation for their efforts in supporting the victims of Turkey and Syrian Earthquakes.

Let’s try to collect as many pennies for our class as possible. Let’s also try to put quarters, nickels, and dimes in other classroom buckets.

This is a short week.

• Monday – Wednesday – Penny Wars and Iftar tickets will be for sale in the office.
• Thursday – Our Iftar dinner will take place on Thursday, April 6th, 2023 at 7:30pm.
• Friday – No School

Grades were submitted Friday before Spring Break. Absences this week may result in lower grades in Math and ELA on the report card.

ELA BLOCK – We are finishing up the Unit 8 Benchmark booklet this week.

• Reading – I see almost all of the small groups every day. Fluency and comprehension are the focus. It is concerning when a first grader struggles with a past spelling word. Those are writing and reading words. They are interconnected with our Benchmark reading.
• Writer’s Workshop – We are starting our second scaffolded opinion piece on Monday. We will be writing our opinion about a favorite superhero.
• Spelling – The spelling test will be on Thursday. These words are R-controlled vowels. Please note and practice the patterns.
  • turn
  • burn
  • churn
  • skirt
  • shirt
  • squirt
  • stern
  • fern
  • every
  • near
  • school
  • earth

MATH – We are starting Module 5: Geometry. (Yes, we are temporarily skipping Module 4 so that we have exposure to Geometry before the Spring NWEA.) Math Homework will begin again on Monday. (I could not send it home during Module 3, because there were too many math manipulatives that the students needed to use. )

SOCIAL STUDIES/SCIENCE – This week we will be starting our Social Studies unit about the past, present, and future. We will be reviewing what we learned in our ELA benchmark book. We will practice reading a calendar and reviewing some federal holidays. We will also start our final science unit: Light and Sound.

Thank you for your support. Please work to have your child at school every day and on time.

Your partner in teaching.

Mrs. Korte