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What are we learning?
Math
I can use the strategy of making a 10 to add numbers within 20.
I can use the strategy of decomposing a number leading to a 10 to add or subtract numbers within 20.
ELAR
I can spell words with digraph -ck correctly such as kick, back, deck, rock, duck, luck, tuck, sick, neck, and quack. (Spell Test on Friday, October 17th).
I can identify and describe events in a chronological order.
I can recognize characteristics of informational text and identify the central idea of a text.
I can identify an author’s opinion and reasons that support it.
I can practice building my stamina as I read.
I can develop a plan for a procedural text of how to make a sandwich.
I can write an introduction for how to make a sandwich.
I can use appropriate transition/time order words when I am writing the steps for how to make a sandwich.
I can use appropriate transition words in the beginning, middle, and end of my procedural text.
Social Studies
I can explain state and national patriotic symbols.
I can recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States Flag.
I can identify anthems and mottos of the United States.
Science
I can identify the structures of animals and compare how those structures can help animals survive.
Reminders
OCT 2025 October Calendar.pdf
Fall Parent/Teacher Conferences
When you arrive at OCT for your conference with your child's teacher, please be sure you sign in on the Raptor Machine and get a sticker. We are required to have you sign in and get a sticker even after school. Thanks!
Headphones
Please make sure your child has a working set of headphones that they bring to school each day. We use these daily for i-Ready My Path Lessons and various other activities. The headphones need to have a cord that plugs into the iPad. No bluetooth headphones, please!
Weekly Library Schedule
Students will check out a new book from the library weekly as long as they return their old books. Please help your child remember to put library books back in his/her backpack after reading them at home. This will help ensure that your child gets to check out a new book at the library every time!
Ms. Shiles - Monday Thursday
Ms. Hilcher - Tuesday
Mrs. Duncan - Wednesday
Ms. Welch - Friday
Daily Reading at Home
Students are expected to read daily at home and bring their book bags to school daily. Please also have your child cut out his/her sight words (if you have not done so already). Students should be able to read, spell, and write their sight words, "in a snap."
HMH Into Reading myBook
Students have completed the first HMH Into Reading myBook. Your child can keep these books forever at home or recycle them, if you prefer. Your child does not need to finish any of the activities inside the books at home. Your child DOES NOT have to keep these books inside his/her backpack. These books are for your child to keep at home. Thank you!
Volunteers
We will need volunteers this year for field trips and other opportunities! In order to be a volunteer, you must have attended the Volunteer Orientation and completed the criminal background check. All volunteers are required to reapply EACH YEAR.
To complete the criminal background check, click here:
G1_M2_SL_Family Letter_KD.pdf
Student Absences
Please email your homeroom teacher and copy Sierra Salter, sierra.salter@gcisd.net any time your Tiger will be absent.
Ride changes/Leaving Early
If you find your child must go home a different way than planned or is leaving early, please email your child's teacher, Ms. Paola, and Ms. Sierra by at least 2:00 pm.
iPad and Charger
Please be sure your child brings his/her 100% charged iPad AND charger to school every day.
Classroom Needs
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