Week of March 31st

Look at the Week March 31^st

Hello first grade families!

Here is a look at the week!

Language Arts: This week we will begin unit eight in our benchmark curriculum. Unit eight focuses on Earth Science, specifically exploring topics like climate, weather, natural hazards, attractions, and landforms.

We will work on reading and spelling long “a” words.

Spelling: This week’s spelling words are: chair, stair, care, scare, bear, wear, artist, garden, guitar, & radar.

Spelling and reading comprehension assessments will be given Friday.

Math: This week we will finish unit 7 and begin unit eight in our everyday math curriculum. Unit eight focus on mental arithmetic, money concepts, and fractions, including practicing adding and subtracting larger numbers, working with fact families, and exploring the concepts of halves and fourths.

Social Studies: This week we will continue an economic unit focusing is on basic concepts like identifying wants vs needs, understanding the roles of producers and consumers in a community, recognizing how people earn money through jobs, and making simple choices about spending and saving to meet their needs and wants.

Nightly student homework: spelling words, homework packet, practice sight words, and read for twenty minutes. If you need another sight word list let me know and I can email one to you.

Key Dates to Remember:

Our annual May Madness fundraiser is quickly approaching! As a reminder, this year the event will be held on Thursday, 5/29 from 4:45-7:00pm.

May Madness Shirts- CLICK HERE or visit the "News & Info" section of the school website to order yours today!

LAST DAY TO ORDER: APRIL 6

SHIRTS DELIVERED TO STUDENTS: May 1

Order Yearbooks!

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your yearbook today!

Last day to order is April 4^th

Free Dress/Spartan Sprit Days:

Week of May 12

Monday – Farm Day

Tuesday – Disney Day

Wednesday – Dress like a Teacher Day

Thursday – Opposite Day

Friday – Crazy Head Gear and Wild Socks Day

Week of May 19

Monday – Dress like a Friend Day/Twin Day

Tuesday – Dress like a Baby or Grandma/Grandpa Day

Wednesday – Dress to Impress

Thursday – Neon/Glitter day

Friday- Celebrity day

Mary Byrne

1^st Grade Teacher

[email protected]

Look at the Week March 17^th

Hello first grade families!

Here is a look at the week!

Language Arts: This week we will continue unit seven in our Benchmark curriculum. We will focus on the theme of "past, present, and future, we will learn how the past influences the present and future by reading stories about historical events and people, essentially exploring the concept of history through texts.

We will work on reading and spelling long “I” words.

Spelling: This week’s spelling words are: ice, idea, bright, night, try, why, dime, climb, inside, & find.

Spelling and reading comprehension assessments will be given Friday.

Math: This week we will continue unit seven in math. We will focus on geometry and attributes of shapes, where students learn to identify, classify, and compare different shapes based on their characteristics like sides, corners, and vertices. We will also continue to practice addition and subtraction facts through related fact families.

Social Studies: This week we will continue an economic unit focusing is on basic concepts like identifying wants vs needs, understanding the roles of producers and consumers in a community, recognizing how people earn money through jobs, and making simple choices about spending and saving to meet their needs and wants.

Nightly student homework: spelling words, homework packet, practice sight words, and read for twenty minutes. If you need another sight word list let me know and I can email one to you.

Key Dates to Remember:

· March 21^st Jersey and hat day-free dress day for all Athlos Students

· March 24^th- 28^th No School-Spring Break

Mary Byrne

1^st Grade Teacher

[email protected]

Week of March 10

Look at the Week March 10^th

Hello first grade families!

Here is a look at the week!

Language Arts: This week we will continue unit seven in our Benchmark curriculum. We will focus on the theme of "past, present, and future”, we will learn how the past influences the present and future by reading stories about historical events and people, essentially exploring the concept of history through texts.

We will work on reading and spelling long “e” words.

Spelling: This week’s spelling words are: eagle, eager, even, equal, field, thief, sweep, sweet, money, & happy.

Spelling and reading comprehension assessments will be given Friday.

Math: This week we will continue unit seven in math. We will focus on geometry and attributes of shapes, where students learn to identify, classify, and compare different shapes based on their characteristics like sides, corners, and vertices. We will also continue to practice on addition and subtraction facts through related fact families.

This week we will complete our map unit. We have learned basic map concepts like identifying cardinal directions (north, south, east, west), using a map key to understand symbols, locating familiar places in their community on a map, distinguishing between land and water, and identifying our state and country on a simple map.

We will be starting a new unit on an economic unit focusing on basic concepts like identifying wants vs needs, understanding the roles of producers and consumers in a community, recognizing how people earn money through jobs, and making simple choices about spending and saving to meet their needs and wants.

Nightly student homework: spelling words, homework packet, practice sight words, and read for twenty minutes. If you need another sight word list let me know and I can email one to you.

Key Dates to Remember:

· March 10^th Trimester three begins -report cards will go home this week.

· March 21^st Jersey and hat day-free dress day for all Athlos Students

· March 24^th- 28^th No School-Spring Break

Mary Byrne

1^st Grade Teacher

[email protected]

Week of March 3

Look at the Week March 3^rd

Hello first grade families!

Here is a look at the week!

Language Arts: This week we will begin unit seven in LA. This unit we will focus on the theme of "past, present, and future, we will learn how the past influences the present and future by reading stories about historical events and people, essentially exploring the concept of history through age-appropriate texts.

We will work on reading and spelling long o words.

Spelling: This week’s spelling words are: window, home, grow, slow, only, owner, ocean, roads, goal, & hope.

Spelling and reading comprehension assessments will be given Thursday.

Math: This week we will begin unit seven in math. Unit 7 focuses primarily on "time" concepts, including telling time to the hour and half hour, understandings in the concept of "a.m." and "p.m.", and relating time to daily routines and activities, while using visual aids like clocks and timelines. We will also continue to practice addition and subtraction facts through related fact families.

Nightly student homework: spelling words, homework packet, practice sight words, and read for twenty minutes. If you need another sight word list let me know and I can email one to you.

Key Dates to Remember:

· March 7th: End of Tri 2 – No School for students

Mary Byrne

1^st Grade Teacher

[email protected]

Week of February 24

Look at the Week February 24th

Hello first grade families!

Here is a look at the week!

Language Arts: This week we will continue unit 6, titled stores teach us may lessons. We will research the lessons of different stories while describing the characters, setting and the main idea of the stories we read.

We will write complete sentences using nouns, verbs, and adjectives. We will continue writing narrative paragraphs.

We will work on reading and spelling long a words.

Spelling: This week’s spelling words are: ape, age, stay, make, face, paid, wait, great, steak, & play.

Spelling and reading comprehension assessments will be given Friday.

Math: This week we will continue unit six. Unit 6 primarily focuses on further developing addition facts, particularly strategies like "making ten" to solve more complex addition problems, applying these skills to number stories, and beginning to tell time to the hour and half hour on analog clocks; students will also continue building on place value concepts to solve 2-digit addition problems.

Nightly student homework: spelling words, weekly homework packet, practice sight words, and read for twenty minutes. If you need another sight word list let me know and I can email one to you.

Key Dates to Remember:

· February 25th: World Fair Event

· February 28th: Retro Day

· March 7th: End of Tri 2 – No School for students

Mary Byrne

1^st Grade Teacher

[email protected]

Week of February 18

Look at the Week February 18th

Hello first grade families!

Here is a look at the week!

Language Arts: This week we will continue unit 6, titled stores teach us may lessons. We will research the lessons of different stories while describing the characters, setting and the main idea of the stories we read.

We will write complete sentences using nouns, verbs, and adjectives. We will continue writing narrative paragraphs.

We will work on reading and spelling long a words.

Spelling: This week’s spelling words are: ape, age, stay, make, face, paid, wait, great, steak, & play.

Spelling and reading comprehension assessments will be given Friday.

Math: This week we will continue unit six. Unit 6 primarily focuses on further developing addition facts, particularly strategies like "making ten" to solve more complex addition problems, applying these skills to number stories, and beginning to tell time to the hour and half hour on analog clocks; students will also continue building on place value concepts to solve 2-digit addition problems.

Nightly student homework: spelling words, weekly homework packet, practice sight words, and read for twenty minutes. If you need another sight word list let me know and I can email one to you.

Key Dates to Remember:

· February 25th: World Fair Event-Please donate items for World Fair

· February 28th: Retro Day

· March 7th: End of Tri 2 – No School for students

Mary Byrne

1^st Grade Teacher

[email protected]

Week of February 10

Look at the Week February 10^th

Hello first grade families!

Here is a look at the week!

Language Arts: This week we will continue unit 6, titled stores teach us many lessons. We will research the lessons of different stories while describing the characters, setting and the main idea of the stories we read.

We will write complete sentences using nouns, verbs, and adjectives. We will continue writing narrative paragraphs.

We will work on reading and spelling long e and u words.

Spelling: This week’s spelling words are: easy, eager, teeth, sleep, read, happy, use, cute, few, & dew.

Spelling and reading comprehension assessments will be given Friday.

Math: This week we will continue unit six. Unit 6 primarily focuses on further developing addition facts, particularly strategies like "making ten" to solve more complex addition problems, applying these skills to number stories, and beginning to tell time to the hour and half hour on analog clocks; students will also continue building on place value concepts to solve 2-digit addition problems.

Nightly student homework: spelling words, weekly homework packet, practice sight words, and read for twenty minutes. If you need another sight word list let me know and I can email one to you.

Key Dates to Remember:

· February 14th: Pink/Red Day AND Flower Delivery-Free dress day!

· February 17^th: No School-Presidents Day

· February 25th: World Fair Event-Please donate items for World Fair

· February 28th: Retro Day

· March 7th: End of Tri 2 – No School for students

Mary Byrne

1^st Grade Teacher

[email protected]

Look at the Week February 3^rd

Hello first grade families!

Here is a look at the week!

Language Arts: This week we will begin unit 6, titled stores teach us may lessons. We will research different stories while describing the characters, setting and the main idea of the stories we read.

We will write complete sentences using nouns, verbs, and adjectives. We will begin writing narrative paragraphs.

We will work on reading and spelling long i words.

Spelling: This week’s spelling words are: tie, like, why, shy, high, time, life, light, right, & lie.

Spelling and reading comprehension assessments will be given Thursday.

Math: This week we will begin unit six. Unit 6 primarily focuses on further developing addition facts, particularly strategies like "making ten" to solve more complex addition problems, applying these skills to number stories, and beginning to tell time to the hour on analog clocks; students will also continue building on place value concepts to solve 2-digit addition problems.

Nightly student homework: spelling words, homework packet, practice sight words, and read for twenty minutes. If you need another sight word list let me know and I can email one to you.

Key Dates to Remember:

· February 7th: No School

· February 4th – 6th: I Love To Read Parent Readers (PK-3rd)

· February 14th: Pink/Red Day AND Flower Delivery

· February 25th: World Fair Event

· February 28th: Retro Day

· March 7th: End of Tri 2 – No School for students

Mary Byrne

1^st Grade Teacher

[email protected]

Valentine Letter

Week of January 27

Look at the Week January 27^th

Hello first grade families!

Here is a look at the week!

Language Arts: This week we will finish unit five in our benchmark curriculum. This week we will learn how technology makes school and work places better and the impact of technology on daily life and the impact that it will make in the future.

We will write complete sentences using nouns, verbs, and adjectives. We will introduce narrative writing.

We will work on reading and spelling soft G words.

Spelling: This week’s spelling words are: gem, gentle, giant, giraffe, age, page, huge, edge, bridge, &, dodge.

Spelling and reading comprehension assessments will be given Thursday.

Math: This week we will complete unit five in math. This week we will review place value. We will take unit five math assessment on Thursday.

Nightly student homework: spelling words, homework packet, practice sight words, and read for twenty minutes. If you need another sight word list let me know and I can email one to you. Homework is due on Thursday of this week.

Parent teacher conferences. If you have not yet scheduled parent teacher conference please do so today!

For students in PreK – 5th Grade we will be offering online registration through pickAtime.com for Winter 2024-2025 Parent Teacher Conferences taking place on Thursday, January 30 and Friday, January 31. Follow the directions below to access/create your account and get to the Parent Teacher Conference Scheduler.

Instructional Video:

Here is a YouTube video of how to use pickAtime.com: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyl5kyZ7ubc

Enter (or Copy/Paste) this URL into your web browser: https://pickatime.com/athlosbrooklynpark/24-25WinterConferences

For new users - Register for an account

Enter your email address and push "Login/Create Account".
Fill in the required fields to register.

For returning users - Sign In to your account

If you have previously registered, all you need to do is enter your email and password. If you have forgotten your password, you can select the Forgot Password button and a new password will be emailed to you.

Identify Student

For each child, enter in the two prompts that your school requires. They are:

Your child’s Student ID number OR your student’s First and Last name
Your child’s birthday (in the format of MM/DD/YYYY)

Scheduling

Each colored square represents an available meeting time. The legend shows which teacher corresponds to which color, and the times increase as you go down the page.

(Note: you will not see all of the teachers at your school, just the teachers that your child(ren) have homeroom classes with.)

Click on a square to book that time
Click "Create Appointment".
Repeat this process until you have a time with each teacher you'd like to visit with.

Reminders:

Send a healthy snack with your student daily.
Make sure your child has shoes for fitness. We go to fitness on Mondays and Tuesdays
We will go outside twice daily for recess. Please make sure your student is dressed for the weather.

Key Dates to Remember:

January 6^th -31^st Flower Fundraiser Sales, (delivered Feb.14^th)
January 30^th-31^st Parent Teacher conferences
No school Jan. 31^st due to conferences
Reading calendars are due Feb. 3^rd

Mary Byrne

1^st Grade Teacher

[email protected]

Week of January 20th

Look at the Week January 21^st

Hello first grade families!

Here is a look at the week!

Language Arts: This week we will continue unit five in our benchmark curriculum. In unit five we will learn about technology. This week we will learn how technology affects our lives.

This week we will learn about adjectives. We will write complete sentences using adjectives.

We will work on reading and spelling long o words.

Spelling: This week’s spelling words are: home, boat, coat, open, over, grow, joke, no, go, & pillow.

Math: This week we will continue unit five in math. This week we will learn about hundreds, tens and ones within place value.

Science: This week we will continue to discuss similarities and differences between plants and animals.

Nightly student homework: spelling words, weekly packet, practice sight words, and read for twenty minutes. If you need another sight word list let me know and I can email one to you.

Reminders:

Send a healthy snack with your student daily.
Make sure your child has shoes for fitness. We go to fitness on Mondays and Tuesdays
We will go outside twice daily for recess. Please make sure your student is dressed for the weather.

Key Dates to Remember:

January 6^th -31^st Flower Fundraiser Sales, (delivered Feb.14^th)
January 30^th-31^st Parent Teacher Conferences Please sign up for a time on pickatime.com

January 24^th Twin Day/Free Dress Day

Mary Byrne

1^st Grade Teacher

[email protected]

Week of January 13

Hello first grade families!

Here is a look at the week!

Language Arts: This week we will begin unit five in our benchmark curriculum. In unit five we will learn about technology. This week we will learn what technology is and how it affects our lives.

This week we will learn about adjectives. We will write complete sentences using adjectives.

Spelling: This week’s spelling words are: name, brake, rake, great, away, make, came, late, play, & may.

Math: This week we will begin unit five in math. In unit five we will learn about place value.

Science: This week we will continue to discuss similarities and differences between plants and animals.

Nightly student homework: spelling words, homework packet, practice sight words, and read for twenty minutes. If you need another sight word list let me know and I can email one to you.

Reminders:

Send a healthy snack with your student daily.
Make sure your child has shoes for fitness. We go to fitness on Mondays and Tuesdays
We will go outside twice daily for recess. Please make sure your student is dressed for the weather.

Key Dates to Remember:

January 6^th -31^st Flower Fundraiser Sales, (delivered Feb.14^th)
January 30^th-31^st Parent Teacher Conferences
January 20^th No School
January 24^th Twin Day/Free Dress Day

Mary Byrne

1^st Grade Teacher

[email protected]

Week of January 6-10

Look at the Week January 6^th

Hello first grade families! Happy new year!!!

Here is a look at the week!

We will be doing winter fast bridge testing and completing assessments on IXL to see student’s growth so far in LA, Math and Science this week. This week we will be reviewing skills learned so far this year. We will not have spelling this week.

Language Arts: This week we will review what we have learned so far this year. We will read stories and discuss the character, setting, and retelling the story of the stories we read.

This week we will complete sentences using verbs and nouns. We will work on reading and spelling words we have already learned this year.

Spelling: There is no spelling words or spelling test this week!

Math: This week we will review what we have learned so far this year. We will be working on IXL assessments.

Science: This week we will discuss similarities and differences between plants and animals.

Nightly student homework: spelling words, homework packet, practice sight words, and read for twenty minutes. If you need another sight word list let me know and I can email one to you.

New Year’s Resolution Calendar: This month each student will have a January calendar in their yellow homework folder. We talked about how we all need to become better readers. Each student has decided to read and work on sight words for 30 minutes each night. Each night after they read please give them a smiley face on their calendar. If they read each night for 30 minutes and turn in their calendar on January 31^st they will be invited to a special reading party in February!

Reminders:

Send a healthy snack with your student daily.
Make sure your child has shoes for fitness. We go to fitness on Mondays and Tuesdays.
We will go outside twice daily for recess. Please make sure your student is dressed for the weather.

Key Dates to Remember:

January 6^th – 10^th Pajama/Free Dress Days
January 6^th -31^st Flower Fundraiser Sales, (delivered Feb.14^th)
January 20^th No School
January 24^th Twin Day/Free Dress Day
January 30^th-31^st Parent Teacher Conferences

Mary Byrne

Week of December 16

Look at the Week December 16^th

Hello first grade families! Here is a look at the week.

Language Arts: This week we will complete unit four. We will review point of view, who is telling the story. We will take a point of view and comprehension assessment on Thursday.

This week we will complete sentences using verbs and nouns. We will work on reading and spelling three letter blends.

This week spelling words are: three, throw, throat, street, strong, square, sprain, spit, splash, & scrap.

Spelling test will be on Friday.

Math: This week we will complete unit four. We will review measurement and data. We will take the unit four math assessment on Thursday.

Science: This week we will continue to learn about the effects of climate change due to humans.

Nightly student homework: spelling words, homework packet, practice sight words, and read for twenty minutes. If you need another sight word list let me know and I can email one to you.

Reminders:

Send a healthy snack with your student daily.
Make sure your child has shoes for fitness. We go to fitness on Mondays and Tuesdays.
We will go outside twice daily for recess. Please make sure your student is dressed for the weather.

Key Dates to Remember:

December 19^th Winter Tree Parade-Please send in items to dress the teacher like a minion tree. If you can donate any items for the tree parade it would be much apricated!
December 20^th Pajama Day
December 23^rd to January 3^rd Winter Break (NO SCHOOL)
January 6^th school resumes

Mary Byrne

First grade teacher

[email protected]

Week of December 9-13

Look at the Week December 9^th

Hello first grade families! Here is a look at the week.

Language Arts: This week we will continue unit four. We will learn about the point a view, who is telling the story in the books we read.

This week we will complete sentences using verbs and nouns. We will work on reading and spelling digraphs ch, tch, & wh.

This week spelling words are: child, children, check, lunch, reach, while, white, whisper, lunch, & sandwich.

Spelling test will be on Friday.

Math: This week we will continue unit four. We will be learning about measurement and data. This week we will focus on parts of the clock, telling time to the hour and half hour.

Science: This week we will learn about the effects of climate change how it has affected polar bears.

Nightly student homework: spelling words, homework packet, practice sight words, and read for twenty minutes. If you need another sight word list let me know and I can email one to you.

All students need to be handing in their homework packet EACH week!

Reminders:

Send a healthy snack with your student daily.
Make sure your child has shoes for fitness. We go to fitness on Mondays and Tuesdays.
We will go outside twice daily for recess. Please make sure your student is dressed for the weather.

Key Dates to Remember:

December 19^th Winter Tree Parade-Please send in items to dress teachers like a minion tree.
December 20^th Pajama Day
December 23^rd to January 3^rd Winter Break (NO SCHOOL)

Mary Byrne

1^st Grade Teacher

mary@alabpmn,.org

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