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Email: christy.roberts@cobbk12.org Class website & REMIND text Contact Information Email: christy.roberts@cobbk12.org Meredith.bolte2@cobbk12.org School Phone:770-916-7085 Class website & REMIND text

Co-Teaching Classroom We will work together to teach all students in the class! Benefits to a collaborative classroom: Two certified educators in the room! More individualized instruction for all students! We plan and stay with the academic pacing of ALL the other 1st grade classes. 1st grade teachers plan together Each student is challenged to their own ability

School Starts at 7:50. Students can arrive as early as 7:15. Attendance School Starts at 7:50. Students can arrive as early as 7:15. If your child is sick and must miss school, you must write a note including the following information: date, reason for absence, phone number where you can be reached, and signature.

Dismissal Dismissal will begin at 2:00 pm each day. Students are never to be picked up from their classrooms without a parent first signing them out at the office. If your child is a car rider, please remain in your car and make sure that your tag is visible in the windshield. You will be asked to park and come inside if you do not have this name tag. Please make sure to always have proper identification.

Early Checkout If you need to check out your child early, then you need to go to the office and sign him/her out. The office will call down to our room for your child to meet you in the office. Same applies if you are here for a special event at school and want to check out early. *No checkouts after 1:45

Transportation Please note that any time your child’s method of transportation changes, we MUST have a note from you. If you forget to send in a note, you will have to come up to the school to tell the office of a change. It is a Cobb County Policy that will ensure your child’s safety. Transportation change notes are found on the main page of the Sope Creek Website. Important! We cannot accept notices of transportation change through email or phone. If you forget to write a note, you must come up to the school and tell them how your child will be going home for that day. If your child comes to school and says they are going home a different way and I have not received a note, We WILL NOT send them home differently. I will send them home the way they would normally go unless the office tells me differently.

Behavior Soaring Eagles Expectations: High Expectations Time on Task ------------------------------------------------ High Expectations Time on Task Safe and Orderly School Respect all People and Property

Behavior Sticker Books & Class Coupons Behavior Cubes

Snacks Each child is responsible for his/her snack each day. Snacks should be taken out of backpacks and placed in baskets until snack time. Please send in 1-2 healthy snacks for your child. Sharing is NOT allowed.

Lunch Please feel free to join us at lunch on any day that you can! The children love this surprise! Our lunch time is 10:42-11:12. You can meet us in the cafeteria after you sign in at the office. If you eat lunch with your child, please say your goodbyes inside the cafeteria before you leave.

*Please let me know of any food concerns Birthdays You may bring in a special snack for your child’s birthday. The best time to share would be at lunch time, 10:42-11:12. Please no cakes! *Please let me know of any food concerns

Medication Prescription and over-the-counter medication to be taken during the school day must be brought to school by the parent and a medication form filled out in the office. All medication has to remain in its original container and will be administered by the school nurse in the clinic. Sope Creek Nurse 770-916-7093

Specials We will have specials every day from 12:30-1:15. These specials include Music, PE, Art, STEM, STEM Lit. Please be sure that your child wears tennis shoes on PE days. A specials rotation calendar will be sent home on the weekly newsletter, so your child can be prepared to wear tennis shoes on the days we have PE.

Homework We encourage you to read with your child every night. Students are also encouraged to check out school library books to take home. Homework will be assigned weekly. It will start the third week of school. The work will consist of different activities such as, practicing spellings of words, reading and writing sight words, reading comprehension, and math practice. Homework will be given out on Friday and due the following Friday. *Additional work may come home based on students need and monthly STEM challenge homework will come home as optional work.

Take Home Binders This binder will be sent home every day with your child. We check binders each morning when your child brings them back from home. It is very important that you check this every day and return it to school the next morning. On Fridays, important letters and graded/ checked papers will be sent home. Behavior sheets and homework can be found in the inserted sleeves. Please be sure to initial your child’s behavior sheet each night.

Math Reading Writing Science Social Studies Addition fluency to 10, addition and subtraction within 20 using multiple strategies, determines if equations are true (6=6, 7=8-1) or false (8=4, 3+2=6), reads and writes numerals AND represents any number of objects with a written numeral up to 120 using tens and ones. Writes in narrative, informational, and opinion genres Retelling fiction and non-fiction, compare and contrast characters, setting, events in stories Weather, plant parts and needs, animal needs, magnets, sound Historical figures: Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, G.W. Carver Continents and oceans, consumers and producers Addition fluency to 10, addition and subtraction within 20 using multiple strategies, determines if equations are true (6=6, 7=8-1) or false (8=4, 3+2=6), reads and writes numerals AND represents any number of objects with a written numeral up to 120 using tens and ones. Writes in narrative, informational, and opinion genres Retelling fiction and non-fiction, compare and contrast characters, setting, events in stories Weather, plant parts and needs, animal needs, magnets, sound Historical figures: Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, G.W. Carver Continents and oceans, consumers and producers Reading Writing Science Social Studies

Solar Eclipse Cobb County School District has extended the school day by 45 minutes on August 21st. Students 3rd grade and up will only be permitted to go outside to observe the eclipse if they have written permission from a parent. Students without written permission will watch a live broadcast of the eclipse from NASA. *K-2 will watch live streaming Our PTA has purchased NASA approved eclipse viewing glasses for students at Sope Creek Elementary. Parents are welcome to join us, but will need to provide their own eclipse viewing glasses. We will follow regular dismissal procedures.  Students will not be dismissed from the front office after 1:45 pm.

Daily classroom work is not graded, but checked. Grades will be given for report cards based on assessments after concepts have been taught. There will be multiple classroom opportunities for students to practice concepts in class before an assessment is given. You will receive your child’s work in their folders on Fridays, so you can check their progress.

Report Cards

Field Trips First grade loves to go on field trips! We will go on several this year. In the past we have gone to Puppetry Arts and Sibley Pond. Information concerning a field trip will be sent home with your child close to the time the field trip would be planned for. If you choose to pack your child a lunch on the day of a field trip, we recommend packing it in a consumable bag, so that it can be thrown away before we head back to the school.

You will be provided with a schedule and plans for the timeframe. Teacher collaboration times will overlap either specials or lunch time. You do not need to introduce new material or assign grades. Primary Responsibilities of Volunteers: Keep the students safe. Do not take them outside. Only release students when called from the front office. You are a mandated reporter. If you see any signs of abuse, please tell the teacher. Support if there are disruptive students and call the office if you need help. (Ext. 037) Emergency folder by the door. Check for allergies in the classroom. It is possible to get pulled for another classroom if there isn’t coverage. Please sign the sheet to say you are trained.

Check newsletter for additional items throughout the year.

2017 Fun Run 8/23 8/14!

Room Rep ~ Traci Savio Volunteering: We will be utilizing Sign Up Genius for parents to volunteer! Those Sign Up Genius links will be created by Fei Xu, (Matthew's mom). The first volunteer opportunities will be: Story Parent: 2nd & 4th Mondays each month from 10:15am-10:35am, Begins August 28th Helper Parent: 1st & 3rd Thursdays each month from 12:30pm-1:30pm, Begins Sept. 7th Math Center: Day, time & start date TBD Class Donation Form: At Sope Creek we collect money at the beginning of the year to cover things like class parties, t-shirts, teacher's birthdays, our class Octoberfest pumpkin, etc... There is a standard donation form with suggested amounts for each category but it is up to you what you contribute. The only item that is a fixed cost is the class t-shirt. Our class shirt this year is $10.00. You may fill out the donation form and submit the money to our treasurer, Meghan Serig, (Michael's mom), tonight!

Don’t Forget!! Please sign-in! The sign-in sheet is on the back table. Sign up for REMIND! Please sign-in! The sign-in sheet is on the back table. You can leave your forms on the back table. Turn in: Clinic Cards Receipt of the Family Information Guide Class Directory form ParentVUE Agreement Signature for PVS training *Note to your Rockstar!