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Checking out different types of feathers!
Checking out different types of feathers!
Checking out different types of feathers!
Checking out different types of feathers!
Checking out different types of feathers!
Checking out different types of feathers!
Checking out different types of feathers!
Checking out different types of feathers!
Checking out different types of feathers!
Checking out different types of feathers!
Look at our awesome bird research projects!
Look at our awesome bird research projects!
Look at our awesome bird research projects!
Looking at our awesome bird research projects!
Look at our awesome bird research projects!
Look at our awesome bird research projects!
Looking at our awesome bird research projects!
Looking at our awesome bird research projects!
Look at our awesome bird research projects!
Look at our awesome bird research projects!
Look at our awesome bird research projects!
Looking at our awesome bird research projects!
Look at our awesome bird research projects!
Lunch bunch!
Being the teacher!
Playing with friends!
THIS WEEK'S NEWS:
~Odds and Ends:
THINGS TO SEND IN DAILY:
Water bottle
Snack
Homework Folder
Change of Clothes
SPECIALS:
Our specials this week are:
Monday- MUSIC
Tuesday- PE
Wednesday- ART
Thursday- MEDIA
Friday- MEDIA
PRINCIPAL'S MESSAGE:
Friendly reminder to make sure you also click the link above and check out Mr. Tunstall's news letter. It has school wide information that is not on our class website!
PICTURE DAY:
Spring picture day is Wednesday, March 18. We will take our class picture on this day as well!
FAMILY PROJECT:
Please turn in any last minute projects! We've begun sharing and learning about all our friends!
WELCOME TO OUR NEW TEACHER:
We recently welcomed our new K/1 teacher, Mrs. Erika Rosa, to our team! She will be working with intervention and enrichment groups while supporting the teachers throughout the remainder of the year! Her intro letter is linked below.
TRACK OUT:
Track out day is on Friday, March 27. This is our last day for Quarter 3.
INTENT TO RETURN:
Intent to Return 2026-2027 School Year
It is time to start planning for the upcoming academic year! Please indicate if your child WILL or WILL NOT be returning to PUE for the 2026-27 school year. Complete one survey for EACH child currently attending Pleasant Union (Grades K-4) Submit no later than Friday, March 13, 2026
Complete this form: https://forms.gle/ezLXJpragxgKoAyL6
SSA TESTING:
Single Subject Acceleration (SSA) Testing is right around the corner. For those interested in learning more, here is a link to the WCPSS Parent Information Presentation
We will also be holding a PUE SSA Parent Information Meeting
**This meeting has been recorded and posted on PUE's Acceleration Website
Testing Windows
Track 2, 3, and 4: March 16 - 27
SSA Resources:
PUE PTA NEWS:
Yearbooks Are On Sale — Upload Photos in Treering!
Yearbooks are now available for purchase, and families can personalize their child’s copy with two FREE custom pages. 📸 The PUE Yearbook Team is collecting photos now! Families can upload photos directly through Treering in the school folders within their account. We’re looking for first day of school photos, Panther Dash pics, grade-level moments, snow day fun, field trips, and school events. 🗓 Custom pages due by April 26, 2026 📘 Softcover: $30.52 | Hardcover: $37.66 (tax not included) 📦 Yearbooks will be delivered directly to the school 🔗 treering.com/validate 🔑 School passcode: 1016071186223064 Help us capture the memories that made this school year special!
~Year long Information:
NEW ATTENDANCE ABSENCE PROTOCOL:
Starting Monday, September 15, 2025, Pleasant Union is launching a centralized absence/attendance email address. ALL parents are to email their child’s absence reason to: Attendance531@wcpss.net. The student’s first and last name, child’s track, and teacher must be included in the email. For a medical-related appointment during school hours, the dated doctor or appt note is necessary to be counted as an excused tardy. A doctor’s note is also necessary for 3 consecutive days of absences due to illness. Absences will only be excused when proper documentation is received by the attendance office within 48 hours of the student's return to school. For more info on attendance, read School Board Policy 4400: Attendance.
CLASS DIRECTORY:
The class directory is complete! Here is the link.
VOLUNTEER REGISTRATION:
Please please please register to volunteer! Make sure to submit your 25-26 School Year Volunteer Registration ASAP. This must be completed every year, even if you were approved last year. Even if you are unsure if you will volunteer this year, I encourage all parents to do so now before traditional schools return. Links and information on the process can be found here.
Showing off her journal writing and using her editor's checklist!
LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION Updates:
LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION Updates:
Topic 1: Becoming Researchers of Earth and Animals
Standards for this unit:
RL1.2 Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
RL1.3 Describe characters, settings and major events in a story, using key details.
RL1.4 Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
W. 1.3 Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal transition words to signal event order and provide some sense of closure. a. With guidance and support from adults, organize information and ideas around a topic to plan and prepare to write. b With guidance and support from adults, focus on a topic, respond to questions and suggestions from peers and add details to strengthen writing as needed.
This week we'll begin working on our next book, Pedro Goes Wild. In this book we head back into fiction as we learn all about our character Pedro and the things he encounters on his hike in the wild. This is a longer book than usual (pre-chapter book), so it'll be a little more challenging for us to work on retelling the story! Lots more to retell!
Our stories are getting loooonnger! Gotta keep practicing that fluency!
LETTERLAND Updates:
LETTERLAND Updates:
Unit 25: Long /u/
Standards for this unit:
L 1.2 Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring grade appropriate irregular words
RF 1.1 Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print
RF 1.2 Print all upper and lower case letters legibly
RF 1.3 Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds
Orally produce single-syllable words by blending sounds
RF 1.4 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words
Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs
Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words
Recognize and read grade appropriate irregularly spelled words
RF 1.5 Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension
This week we will learn all about our last vowel and how to spell it. The lovely /u/! The three ways we'll be learning about how to spell the long /u/ are; -ue, -ew, and u with magic e. You can find these sounds/spellings in words like blue, chew, and huge. This is another tricky unit! It's hard to know when to use each type of spelling. I will be teaching them some rhymes that help with our words this week, but it isn't a clue that works for ALL words spelled with the long /u/. Make sure you practice lots at home!
Measuring around the room using our nonstandard tools!
MATH Updates:
MATH Updates:
Unit 5: Operating with Place Value
Standards for this unit:
Use objects or drawings to represent and solve word problems that call for addition of three whole numbers whose sum is less than or equal to 20. (NC.1.OA.2)
NC.1.OA.1 Represent and solve addition and subtraction word problems, within 20, with unknowns, by using
objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem, when solving:
• Add to/Take from-Change Unknown
• Put together/Take Apart-Addend Unknown
• Compare-Difference Unknown
NC.1.OA.3 Apply the commutative and associative properties as strategies for solving addition problems.
NC.1.OA.8 Determine the unknown whole number in an addition or subtraction equation involving three whole numbers.
This week, we'll be focusing on the equal sign in equations. What does equal truly mean? In order to really look at this, we'll be learning about balanced equations. We'll be deciding if things are equal or not equal by solving both sides of a balanced equation. For example, is 4+2 = 2+4, or is 13+5=20, or is 10+4 = 9+7. We'll also get to play with our number balance to determine if our equations are equal.
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