Dear First Grade Families,
Happy Tuesday! I hope you all had a great long weekend! The first graders had a great full day of school!
Below are a few reminders for the upcoming week (please pay special attention to information regarding the clip/behavior chart):
- We have introduced the clip chart this week! This is our positive behavior management system that will help the first graders make good choices throughout the week. The colors are as follows: StartFragment
Pink– SUPER STUDENT!
Purple– Awesome Behavior
Blue– Good choices
Green– Ready to Learn
Yellow– Think about it
Orange– Teacher Choice
Red- Parent Contact - Every child starts off the day on, “Ready to Learn” (green). Students can clip up for making good choices. Students may clip down for making poor choices in the classroom.
- Every day, students will come home with a behavior/homework chart. They will fill in the color they finished the day on in the classroom. Parents/guardians are asked to sign their behavior chart every day to ensure you are informed on your child’s progress. This will then be entered into Gradelink at the end of the week.**This will be explained in more depth at Back to School Night next week!!!**
- Students should return their green homework folder to school every day WITH their signed behavior chart turned into the front, “return to school,” pocket. A bin will be placed outside the first grade classroom every morning for these folders. They should be placed in number order. This should be done before the students enter the classroom after morning assembly!!
- Every week, your child will be assigned three homework assignments. These assignments are:
- Reading Log
●Students should read for 20-30 minutes each night & fill out skills based reading log.
●Reading logs should be returned to school every day in the “Return to School” pocket of your child’s homework folder.
●Reading logs will be checked every day, and grades will be entered on Friday.
Go Math Practice
●Students will complete two math workbook pages from the Go Math! Standards Practice Book (that correspond to the lesson taught in class that day).
●The Go Math! Standards Practice Book will be kept at home with your child.
●Students should rip out the pages they need to complete and put their FIRST NAME, LAST NAME, AND THE DATE on each page.
●Students should staple each homework page together (with Monday’s assignment on top) and turn their math homework in on Friday only.
●Math tests and quizzes will take place in the middle and at the end of each chapter.
Sight Word Practice
●Students will get a list of sight words to practice and learn each week.
●These words will be stapled on the inside of your child’s composition notebook along with several activities they can do with the words.
●Students should pick one activity to do each night with all of their words. There should be one activity per page with the date on top.
●These composition notebooks should only be turned in on Friday.
As always, please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. It has been such a joy teaching your children!
Warmly,
Ms. Martinez
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