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Here’s the “Scoop” on First Grade


• Spelling: Spelling tests are given on Fridays.Spelling homework is sent home each Monday and due by Friday.


• Home Reading: In September your child should start reading books from home or from the library. In First Grade parents can still read TO the children until November. The school Take Home Library will start in October. After that, each night your child will bring home a book that he/she can read to you. Twenty minutes per night of Home reading is required of First Graders. Look for the monthly Home Reading Calendars to track your minutes!


• Math: Our math program Saxon, has a homework component. Each night (Monday-Thursday) your child will be required to complete two homework pages. The homework is a continuation of what we did in class that day. It should be easy and not take more than 10 minutes each night. The homework will come home in a Math folder. It should be completed and returned in the same folder. Students that consistently do homework perform better on tests than students that don’t do homework. Completing homework and returning it to school helps build responsibility in the primary grades.


• Coin Cup: Please put the coins listed below in the container and send it back to school on the first day. Your child will use the coins during math lessons throughout the school year. At the end of the year your child will bring the coins home.


o Pennies-25
o Nickles-10
o Dimes-10
o Quarter-1


• Grades: Quarterly Grade Reports will be sent home. Your child will be grades on weekly Math Tests, Spelling Tests, and Sight Word Tests. This year all Math Written Assessments will be given on Friday Afternoons. PLEASE don’t take off early on Fridays. It is hard for me to make up a lot of math tests because I have to read the test to each student.


• Backpacks: Please send one each day. Make sure your child’s name is on it.


• Friday Folders: Each Friday your child will bring home his/her the Friday Folder.  The Friday Folder will contain all of the papers your child has finished and the Weekly Evaluation. (except Math which comes home in the RED Folder). PLEASE empty and return the Friday Folder each Monday.


• Book Orders: I send them each month. We get free books for our classroom for each dollar spent,


• Sharing: We don’t have Show and Tell. In order to promote oral language development we have Sharing instead. Each day after lunch the students have an opportunity to tell the class anything that is important to them. Please don’t allow your child to bring any toys or valuables to school!


• Snacks: First Grade can be difficult for students at the first of the year. They aren’t used to such a LONG day. You are welcome to send a snack every day with your child. I will let them eat it at morning recess.