Hello, Parents!
We are now beginning the fourth quarter of the
school year, and we are very excited about the
progress all of our students have made this year!
Please note that this coming week will be
STEM week. Look for information how students
can show their excitement about Science,
Technology, Engineering and Math- as well as the
college and career choices they inspire!
Lastly, we are always looking for guest
readers. Children love when their parents or
grandparents come in and share one of their
favorite books! Please consider signing up with
your child’s teacher by e-mailing or sending
him/her a note indicating you are interested.
Sincerely,
Your First Grade Team
Mr. Clark, Mrs. Czarnopys, Miss Kim,
Mrs. Geraci, Mrs. Mutiga, and Mrs. Robeson
We could all use sharpened pencils, erasers,
glue sticks, and tissues to replenish our
classroom supplies. THANK YOU!!!
Apr. 5
PTA Mtg. @ 7:00
Apr. 6
Gr. 1 to Recycling Center @ 9:45
Apr. 7
Dine out Night at Gentleman Jim’s
Apr. 8
MP3 Ends
Apr. 11 MP4 Starts
Apr. 11-15 Fitness Week!
Apr. 12 Class pictures
Apr. 15 Hearing/Vision Rescreening
Apr. 22 PTA Fun Run and Picnic
Apr. 26 No School/ Primary Election
Apr. 28 Take your child to work day!
A Very Happy April
Birthday to…
Kylie Job- April 3
Sean Embley – April 5
Angel Perdomo- April 5
Tyler Hall- April 6
Avery Benedict – April 9
Andrew O’Brien- April 11
Destiny Pellen-Martin- April 14
Syncere Pellen-Martin- April 14
Please see the attached newsletter from the MCPS MCPS has written a user friendly newsletter that explains
website, as it gives specific examples of what first concepts we are working on in the first part of the marking
graders are doing in the beginning of the fourth period. Please see the attached.
marking period.
Please continue to have our children practice their basic math
facts for addition and subtraction daily. This daily practice
goes a long way as math facts are the foundation for all future
learning in mathematics. Our students can log on to the Harcourt
textbook website and practice facts in all four operations on the
Our focus for social studies during the month computer. The website is www.harcourtschool.com, and the
of April will be on the natural and human password is “andrews.” In addition, this site has many practice
resources that are needed to produce goods and problems, activities, and games for many different topics in math
– fractions, telling time, counting money, measurement, skip
services for us, consumers.
counting, estimation, graphing, and 2-D and 3-D geometry.
In science, we will investigate the impact our Please feel free to allow our children to use any of these activities
to practice their skills and strategies in mathematics.
human actions have on the environment and the
importance of recycling, reducing, and reusing our
resources.
News from our
News from the Media specialists…
Center:
In the Computer Lab, we will begin our last inquiry project
of the year by locating information and sharing ideas for our
extended writing called Sharing Our Earth. This project is
connected to our social studies and science content. Our
students will explore the inquiry-driving question: How can
we share our Earth with other living things and provide jobs,
goods, and services to fulfill human wants? They will build
their background knowledge by examining a variety of
resources about how humans produce and distribute goods
and services and how these actions can help or harm the
environment.
In Music, first grade students will be reading and notating music
and organizing musical ideas and sounds creatively.
In PE, first graders just finished their tumbling unit. To start the
fourth quarter, they will focus on kicking a stationary ball at a
target.
In Mrs. Raker’s Art, first graders will begin a lesson on
expression of thoughts and feelings using 3-D art while making
masks. We will use our hands to trace the shape of the mask
and then use paint to add shapes and patterns to these designs.
We will enhance our masks by adding glitter as a final touch!
Our first graders will continue to build their knowledge of Mark your calendars now for our annual Goshen Arts Night on
how to use the text features in resources and topic-related May 21st.
keywords for evaluating and selecting sources. They will
explain the criteria they used for selecting both print and
digital sources. During shared research, our students learn to From Mrs. Newman: Your youngsters in Mrs. Robeson’s Art
use the navigational tools of on-line resources to locate class have completed an extended unit on painting. In their final
information. They also learn about the purpose of graphic lesson, they painted birds. We discussed color mixing, painting
organizers and use one to categorize their recorded patterns, and mixing tints to lighten a color by adding white. We
information. Lastly, our students will analyze their recorded
glued on feathers to really make the texture of birds very
information to learn about what makes a fact relevant.
tangible.
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