Welcome To Mrs. Scarlett’s 1 st grade!

Contact Info. Please me or call me at any time. I will try my best to contact you as soon as possible. Our specials are not till the end of the day. Most days I will not get to review s until then. Please send a note or call the office if your child is leaving early or going home with a friend. Phone: Office #: Connie Pierce/Jane Dimmel

ClassroomRewards

Classroom Rewards Our class will earn compliments throughout the year. Every compliments will let them earn a choice off of our MENU. You will receive a note home when our class has earned a reward! Examples include: video & popcorn, crazy hair day, pj day, game day, costume day. Extra PE time is given to students that have saved 15 red tickets. Treasure basket toys are given to students who get their names drawn from our red ticket jar or who get 2 rows of stickers on their sticker sheet.

Importanttimes

Arrival 8:00 School starts at 8:10 am. Please have your child to school in plenty of time so they can get settled before the bell rings. Your child may go to the gym if they come before 8am.

Snack 10:15 Please bring healthy snack that is easy to eat. Fruits, cheerios, granola bars are good examples. Please put in a durable container.

Lunch 11:40-12:10 pm Students with a cold lunch may buy milk/juice. Birthday Snacks 12:10 pm Recess 12:40-1:00 pm

Recess We will have 2 recesses daily. Please check the weather for morning and afternoon. A lot of times it is cold in the morning and warm in the afternoon. We will go outside unless it is raining, snowing, or temperatures are frigid.

Dismissal 3:10 Please or send me a note in the morning if your child Is going home with a friend or going home a different way than Usual.

This year’s subjects

Math Numbers to 100 ordering & comparing Addition & Subtraction Facts Place Value Money Time Measurement Data & Graphing

Language Arts Shawnee Mission uses the Wonders Reading Series. In 1 st grade your child will work on… Blending & reading more fluently Sight Words Reading Strategies Nouns, verbs, & adjectives ABC Order Capitalization Punctuation Contractions

Homework & Spelling Homework is aligned with our Wonder’s reading program. It includes our weekly story with story skill practice, spelling, reading fluency, sight words, and a math practice page. It is will come home on Friday and is due the next Friday. Stories for HW will be on the Wonders website. Directions will be attached to homework. Spelling Tests are on Friday mornings. has our weekly spelling lists. You may use this as practice.

Sight Words Sight words for the week will be sent home on Fridays. Sight words are different from Spelling Words These are words we like the students to be able to read by sight. Sight words will be assessed at the end of each unit, which is every six weeks. These first few weeks are a review of Kdg. words. Students are assessed on reading the words, not spelling them. Sounding out the word is not knowing the word by sight. They should know the word within about 3 seconds.

Social Studies Communities Economics – Wants vs. Needs Citizenship Geography

Science Weather Shadows Health Space – sun, moon, & stars

When you are absent… Please call Julie Johnson or the office to let them know your child will be absent for the day. Please me if a sibling will be picking up work at the end of the school day. Please me if your child will be gone for a long period of time. For example a vacation or illness.

SpecialsSchedule

Monday: PE & Music Tuesday: Art Wednesday: Music Thursday: Library Friday: PE Students will need to wear tennis shoes on PE days. Return library books on Thursday.

Special Student Week Each student is assigned a special week in 1 st grade! I tried to put their week as close to their birthday as possible. Students with summer birthdays are scheduled throughout the year and they may bring their birthday treats in at that time. 1.On Monday, your child will bring in 4/5 photos to share and put in our classroom. 2.They will also bring the guesstimation jar on Monday. Due to food allergies, please do not put food in the jar. The jar may have give away items, for example stickers, erasers, pencils, little gadgets. The # of items will need to be between We will give each student something from the jar, and send the rest home. 3.Birthday treats may be brought in. Your child will be able to bring them to school in the morning. No drinks or napkins are needed. 4.If possible, someone from their family may come and read to our class in the morning. 5.You will have a brown bag biography to do as a part of this week. The students will share their bag with their classmates. I I IIII II have a have

FIELD TRIPS Parent Volunteers AND

Parent Volunteers Parent volunteers may come any time from 9:30-11:30 am to help in our classroom on Monday – Thursday. There is a parent helper table in our classroom that has a parent helper tub. On the table, you will find instructions on what to do for that day or any ongoing projects that may need finished. Please sign up tonight if you are interested. Parent helpers will start the first week of September.

Field Trips Red Barn Farm – October 7 th ? TBA Mahaffie Farmstead – May 4 th Parents will need to drive seperately and may need to pay a fee for attending.