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Hi families! Can you believe it's the end of the school year? We will celebrate our last day of first grade on May 19th and parents are welcome to attend. This Sign Up Genius has slots to sign up to bring items for the party. This is optional and not required. For the goodies bags, there are 23 students, and you can sign up to bring items like bubbles, sidewalk chalk, etc, that your child can pass out to each student. This way, all students will go home with a full goodie bad to enjoy over summer! We will have lunch picnic style, cake, give out class awards, do a goodie bag exchange, and sign mini friscbees to remember each other. Early release is at 12:05. The party will be from 10:30-11:30, then we will claen and pack up and go out to the hall to watch the 5th grade walk. If you attend the party and plan to take your child home, you will be asked to check your child out at the front office. Can't wait!

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Hi families! Can you believe it's the end of the school year? We will celebrate our last day of first grade on May 19th and parents are welcome to attend. This Sign Up Genius has slots to sign up to bring items for the party. This is optional and not required.

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Field Day is May 16th.
If you ordered a field day shirt, your child will wear their shirt that day!
OPE needs volunteers for FIELD DAY!
Please apply sunscreen at home.
Kids may wear a swimsuit under regular clothes with waterproof shoes.
Bring a towel.
Bring a change of clothes including undergarments.

Our end of the year class party is May 19th which is the last day of school and an early release day at 12:05.  Parents are welcome.  Here is the SIGN UP GENIUS with more information and optional opportunities to contribute to our party!
If you bought items for the party, THANK YOU! You may send those items with your child Monday.

If your child cannot tie their shoes yet, please practice at home.

PLEASE SEND A CHANGE OF CLOTHES WITH YOUR CHILD TO KEEP IN THEIR CUBBY IN CASE OF AN ACCIDENT.  NURSE WENDY DOES NOT HAVE EXTRA CLOTHES.

PLEASE take a moment to fill out the Title 1 Survey linked HERE.

Take home books to practice reading are in your child's backpack.  They should read every night and bring the book back on the following Friday to get a new book.  THESE BOOKS BELONG TO THE SCHOOL!

Please send your child to school in athletic shoes on Tuesday and Thursday for PE!

Weekly Dress Up Days at OPE!:
MONDAYS are college shirt day!

Please have your student wear their house shirt every WEDNESDAY to show their spirit!  Dress up and have fun in your house color!

FRIDAYS are Lobo Spirit Shirt Day!  Wear Lobo colors or another OPE shirt and show your school spirit!

Here is information for places you can order Lobo Spirit Wear!
https://www.facebook.com/superjojoscreations/

https://myshirtlady.square.site/
Look for lobo gear under “school, sports spirit wear”

All students need headphones and will use them daily.  If you have not sent headphones with your student yet, please try to send them this week!

Here is a link to our classroom Amazon Wishlist!

Reading with your child at home will increase their fluency skills and build upon what we work on in class!  Raz Kids is also a great resource to have them reading at home!

Please send a water bottle and dry snack with your child daily.

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May 16-May 19, 2022

Numbers of the Week:
0-120

Color of the Week:
Tangerine

This week will will have last week of school camp!
Day 1 Monday:
Camp Run-A-Lot and Camp Read-A-Lot
It’s FIELD DAY and Camp Read A Lot Day:
Wear your field day shirt or another lime green shirt to represent 1st grade! Don’t forget to wear field day appropriate shoes, put on sunscreen before school, and bring an extra change of clothes and shoes and a towel. (Please see reminders from coach for more details)

During our free time, we will be reading with friends! Wear your pajamas and bring several favorite books from home.

Day 2 Tuesday:
Camp Cheer-A-Lot
Wear a team jersey shirt, shorts, and a team hat. Students are asked to bring their favorite board games from home! Label all items!

Day 3 Wednesday:
Camp Think-A-Lot

Wear silly clothes. Bring puzzles from home. This can include word puzzles, sudoku, or jigsaw type puzzles.

An award will be given to the top 3 “silliest” outfits!

Day 4 Thursday:
Camp Party-A-Lot

It’s the last day of 1st grade!!! We will have our party at 10:30am. Parents are welcome to come. We will have our award ceremony in the classroom to celebrate their accomplishments. The party will need to end promptly at 11:30 so we have time to get packed up before the 5th grade clap out.

Spelling Words:

Basic Words

High-Frequency Words:

Here is a link to a slideshow of the 200 first grade sight words that students will learn this year.

Sound Families:

Grammar:

Letters we will review formation on:

Concept of Print:

Review manuscript: Entire Alphabet

Small Group Focus:

Reading:

Math:

Writing:

Science:

Social Studies:

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Reinforcing learning at home is so important to student success.  It not only gives parents the chance to hear from your child what they are learning at school, but also gives them a chance to show what they know in a different environment.  When optional practice work is completed, it provides me with additional checkpoints to provide your child more individualized learning in the classroom.

Your child will have a list of words that we are working on in class weekly to study at home.  Please review them nightly.  Tests over these words will be on Fridays.

Your child will may also come home with math practice that is optional as well. They love to show how much they learned in class. Feel free to return!

An on-level book will be sent home with your child weekly.  They should read this book every night.  If they cannot read yet, you may read it to them, have them point out words they know, read the pictures, or retell the story after you read it to them.  These books should be returned every Friday so they can get a new one the following Monday!

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Hello!  My name is Ms. Newsom and I am a first grade teacher.  I grew up in a large family of 6 children in Carrollton, Texas, and my 3 children and I live in Prosper.  I followed in my aunt's footsteps and fulfilled my dream of becoming a teacher and have been teaching since 2018. This will be my second year of teaching at Oak Point! I have a bachelors degree from Southern Methodist University and it was during my experience at SMU that I knew I wanted to pursuit my passion of early childhood education.  My family and I volunteer regularly with local dog rescues and are known as the rabbit rescuers in our neighborhood!  We strive to show compassion for others in all we do.  I love reading books and hope to pass that love for reading on to all of my students.  My goal is to help my students become strong readers and leaders by taking them on many learning adventures throughout the school year.  I enjoy inspiring children to learn and watching them achieve their goals!  I love first grade and can't wait for all of the exploring, learning, and fun we get to have this year.

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Hello Parents!  Please visit this link to see The Reading Garden Newsletter, designed to help parents learn reading tips and strategies to help their children become successful readers.

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7:35-8:05 Warm-Up and Breakfast
(8:05-9:45 is our ELAR Block)

8:05-8:20 Phonics

8:20-8:35 Spelling

8:35-8:50 Mini Lesson

8:50-9:45 ELAR Stations/Guided Reading

9:45-10:00 Recess 1

10-10:45 Flex WIN Time

10:45-10:55 ELAR Reflection Time

10:55-11:25 Lunch

11:25-11:40 Writing Workshop

11:40-12:25 Math Mini lesson

12:25-12:40 Recess 2

12:45-1:30 Specials

1:30-2:00 Math Rotations

2:00-2:15 Math Reflection Time

2:15-2:30 Recess 3

2:30-3:10 Science

3:10-3:40 Social Studies

3:40 Dismissal

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Please feel free to email cnewsom@littleelmisd.net at anytime or contact me directly, similar to text messaging, on our class Seesaw account.  My classroom phone number 972-947-9455 Ext. 44410, however I am only available to take calls on that number during my conference period from 12:45-1:30.  I will check emails, Seesaw messages, and voicemails daily during my conference period.

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Hello Parents!  We use Raz Kids in class and the students love it!  They can record themselves reading books out loud, or listen to. books read to them.  There is a huge library of books and there are even optional quizzes at the end to test their comprehension.  Here is the link so they can even do it from home.
It should take you straight to our classroom page, and they just find their name and click it. If you ever need it, the username is cnewsom6 and their passcode is 123.

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Hey, Kids: To access your Raz-Kids page, go to the web page for your class and click on the symbol above your name. It's that easy!

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I would love for my students to log in to Epic Books when they have free time to explore books they love and read for about 15 minutes.  I welcome students to tell me all about the books they read at home and in the classroom!  Our Epic Books class code is mhs3563.

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Directions for Posting Journal Entries to Seesaw

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Directions for Posting Journal Entries to Seesaw

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Direction for Posting Student Journal Entries to Seesaw

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Learning Management System and Communication App

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Learning Management System and Communication App

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Seesaw will be used this year as a family communication tool as well as a learning tool in the classroom. Many of our activities will be performed in Seesaw. I can also be reached via message in Seesaw. Tune in often to see what we are doing in class!

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With everything happening in the world today, social emotional learning is more important than ever. We will be implementing daily social emotional activities in our classroom. Here is a link to the Action for Happiness for Families if you would like to learn more!

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This calendar is a new addition to our series of monthly action calendars which have been used by millions of people and translated into 20+ languages.

Thanks to Peter Harper for coming up with the original calendar idea and also to the many other kind and talented people who have helped contribute the ideas and inspiration, including Patrick Higgins who first suggested the idea of a new calendar in response to this global crisis.

Many thanks also to the generous volunteers who have translated the calendars into other languages, including Hala Disi, Carine Bouery, Aida Laubach and Jaber & Nailah Aljasmi (Arabic), Sevdzhi Eubova (Bulgarian), Victòria Picó (Catalan), Janice Torkildsen (Chinese & Nepalese), Natalie Lui, Yun You & C hun Fat Huang (Chinese), Renata Sušanj & Dalibor Sever (Croatian), Gabriela Macova (Czech), Merete Klitgård (Danish), Martine De Ruiter (Dutch), Anna Langley (Esperanto), Elisha Gay Hidalgo & Kristo Mari Demegillo (Filipino), Laurence De Olivera & Windy Diakité (French), Rika Tjakea Schütte, Tobias Polzin, Ingrid Schäberle, Yvonne Macasieb, Gunnar Kolley & Rika Tjakea Schütte (German), Areti Efthymiou & M arina Derlere (Greek), GopiKrishan Bali & Arti Kanwar (Hindi), Eva Fekete (Hungarian), Linda Huld Loftsdóttir (Icelandic), Andrea Magnabosco (Italian), Narumi Isoda (Japanese), Rasa Kokoreviča (Latvian), Joana Butenaite & Janina Sabaite (Lithuanian), Marek Zywert & Lidia Golba (Polish), Ana Rute Costa & Heide Castro (Portuguese), Rajat Khatri (Punjabi), Laura Larion & Oana Mindrut (Romanian), Claire Guzanova & Natalya Kuznetsova (Russian), Tara Jevrosimovic (Serbian), Mária Boťanská (Slovak), Vicenç Rul.lan (Spanish), Naima Skillingshage (Swedish), Ali Gülüm, Ceylan Özpınarand Ilgın Bayraktar (Turkish) and Kate Rudenko & Olga V. Seredyuk (Ukranian), Rebeca Little (Welsh).

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This calendar is a new addition to our series of monthly action calendars which have been used by millions of people and translated into 20+ languages. Thanks to Peter Harper for coming up with the original calendar idea and also to the many other kind and talented people who have helped contribute the ideas and inspiration, including Patrick Higgins who first suggested the idea of a new calendar in response to this global crisis.

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I use videos from the YouTube channel when we are learning sight words, letter sounds, numbers, and more!

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