August 15, 2025

Welcome back!

We have had a wonderful start to the school year! The students are enjoying reconnecting with friends from Kindergarten and making new ones as they settle into their new classroom communities.

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be focusing on learning and practicing our 1st Grade routines while beginning to explore the curriculum. Students will also complete beginning-of-year assessments and review important foundational skills as we prepare for an exciting year of growth and learning.

Once assessments are finished, we will begin sending iPads home. Please help children remember to bring iPads to school each day fully charged, as we will not have extra chargers available once they are sent home. If you prefer your child’s device to stay at school, please let me know.

Next week we will begin visiting the library once a week for lessons and will begin checking out books. They are always excited to see what new books are available and challenge themselves as they grow and improve in reading skills. 

I'm looking forward to a fantastic year ahead—thank you for your continued support!

Reminders

• All students need a pair of headphones to keep at school. They need to be wired and have a straight jack. Wireless/bluetooth headphones are not allowed. Please send the headphones with your child as soon as possible. Thank you!

• We will have a snack time during the day. Please send a peanut-free snack with your child each day. Unfortunately, due to food allergies we are no longer allowed to provide snacks for the class.

• Students will bring home their green take home folders each day. Please check the folder and empty it every night. You do not need to sign the folder daily, but you can if you would like. I do ask that you sign the folder if I have written in it for the day, as a way for me to know that you received the message. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Upcoming Curriculum

Reading/Language Arts: Students will build their reading stamina and use their Comprehension Bookmarks to monitor comprehension of books. Routines and Procedures.

Math: BOY assessments next week MWF; collect, sort and organize data sets; reading and interpreting tally charts, picture graphs and bar graphs. Routines and Procedures.

Science: 1.1A ask questions and define problems based on observations or information from text, phenomena, models, or investigations  1.1B use scientific practices to plan and conduct simple descriptive investigations and use engineering practices to design solutions to problems 1.2D evaluate a design or object using criteria to determine if it works as intended 1.4A explain how science or an innovation can help others

Social Studies: Order in our communities - school, home, family and how rules help us maintain order.