First Grade News

4/8................Returning Student Enrollment for the 2024-2025 School Year Opens in Skyward (see below)

4/11...............Library Books Due

4/11...............1st Grade Program 6pm (see below)

4/12...............Math Homework Due

4/12..............Send Costumes to School in a Bag for Pep Rally Performance

4/15..............No School - Bad Weather Make-up Day

4/17-18.........No Campus Visitors (STAAR Testing in Upper Grades) 

4/23.............No Campus Visitors (STAAR Testing in Upper Grades)

4/26.............Field Day (see below)

4/29.............End of Year Assessments Begin

Our first grade performance is next Thursday evening! We are so excited to see what our Shooting Stars have in store for us. We have caught glimpses of their daily rehearsals during Specials time and we look forward to seeing the whole performance in its entirety. Students should arrive at 5:30pm dressed in the attire designated for their dance piece. The performance will begin at 6:00pm.

Students will need to bring their costumes to school in a bag on Friday, April 12 to perform for the student pep rally at 2:00pm. Students will change into their costumes before their performance time

Field Day is scheduled for Friday, April 26. We would love to have families come to school to cheer us on during our events! Coach Bivin has confirmed that first grade events will begin at 8:30. We will wrap up our events at 12:00. You are welcome to check your first grader out with his or her teacher once our events are complete and start your weekend early. Each first grade teacher will have a sign out sheet for his or her own class. Please keep in mind that students will only be checked out to his or her parents or emergency contacts. We are unable to check students out to parents of a friend.

End of Year reading assessments will begin at the end of April. In order to prepare for success, please continue to practice reading homework books for at least 20 minutes each evening.

If your child needs to miss school, please report the absence to Tyla, Aguilar, our Student Data Secretary. She will code your child's absence for school record keeping purposes. You may report the absence by phone our email using the contact information below. 

• email:  tyla.aguilar@gcisd.net

• phone:  (817)251-5661

*You are welcome to include your child's teacher in any communication regarding absences, too.

If you visit the doctor or dentist with your child and receive an office visit/return to school note, send it to school upon your child's return. Your child's teacher will be sure it gets delivered to the office for updating attendance records.

• Read homework books nightly

• Record minutes spent reading on the Read Across Texas recording sheet

• Math homework is due each Friday

• Return library books each Thursday

• Send a fully charged iPad to school each day

• Send a healthy snack to school each day

• Place "just in case" clothing in your child's backpack

• If you plan to attend school events such as class parties, family picnics, awards, grade level programs and more during the school year, you will need to complete a GCISD Volunteer Background Check. GCISD Volunteer Background Check

In order of appearance...

Top Row:  Emma Ackels, Amy Hisel & Sheri Thompson

Middle Row:  Valeria Carrasco (Dual Language)

Bottom Row:  Valeria Hernandez (Dual Language)