Phone Numbers:
Front Office: 847 - 516 - 5101
Miss K: 847 - 462 - 2406
Miss McCune: 847 - 462 - 2410
**Please contact the front office for any changes in your child's day by 2:30pm (early pick ups, absences, going home in a different way, etc...)
If you have not already, please fill out the Student Information Form for your teacher.
HEALTHY SNACK IDEAS
To help foster successful learning, we would like to allow the children to bring a healthy snack for the mid-morning time. Please feel free to send a water bottle with your child daily. Each child will be responsible for his/her own daily snack. Children who forget a snack will have to do without for the day. Please send a snack that can be eaten easily without making a mess on books and papers since students will be eating during regular classroom work time.
Due to allergies, please do not send any items that contain tree nuts for snack
Fresh fruit (peeled and sliced) , raw vegetables with ranch dressing, cheese sticks, granola, popcorn, wheat crackers, pretzels, bread sticks, raisins, mini sandwiches, pita pockets, rice cakes, non-sugary cereals, etc...
BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS
Just a reminder, as stated in your Parent Handbook (Section 6.15), birthday party invitations are to be distributed in class ONLY if all the children are included.
Due to the increasing number of children with food allergies, we are “food free” for birthday celebrations. If you would like to help your child celebrate at school, you may send in pencils, bookmarks, or other small items for your child to hand out to classmates.
HOMEWORK & GRADING
Handwriting: Students will learn to print using upper and lower case letters appropriately for their names and other areas of writing. We use D’Nealian style letters which later helps students transition into cursive writing in second grade. Homework may come home if your child needs more practice with correct letter formations.
Homework: First graders will have nightly homework as marked on their weekly homework page which includes practicing sight words and spelling words, reading leveled books, or memorizing math facts. Students may also have homework that reinforces a skill we worked on in class or may need to complete something at home that was unfinished in class. Homework is due the next day unless otherwise noted.
Take Home Folders: Parents should open homework folders daily, review the weekly homework page that lists nightly assignments and sign that they have been completed, and reflect on your child's day using the color chart that corresponds with our Class Dojo points. Please send any notes, money, etc... to school in their homework folder.
DT: When you see this on a paper, it means “We did it together" and it is not taken for a grade.
Report Cards and Standardized Assessments: Report cards are distributed three times a year. (November, March, and May). Parent conferences are held in November during the week of Thanksgiving. A conference can also be requested by a parent or teacher at any time during the year. Standardized assessments occur in the areas of reading and math three times per year (fall, winter, spring) using AIMSweb (letter recognition fluency, letter sound fluency, phonemic segmentation fluency, nonsense word fluency, number recognition, oral counting, quantity, and number comparison) and MAP (computer generated assessments).
Specials/Library: Specials run on a three day rotation and include art, music and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). Physical Education will be daily. Library is one day per week where students can check out one book of their choice. If your child cannot read it independently, you can read it to him/her.
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