Jeffrey Clark School

*Thursday, 9/4/25, first day of school!  It will be a 12:55 early dismissal day.  Since the first day of school is a 12:55 early dismissal day, children will only have snack time and not lunch.  Children may bring snack from home or purchase snack from the cafeteria.     

*Starting Friday, 9/5/25, please send your child to school with a peanut free/ nut free snack for the afternoon everyday.  Please send your child with a snack that is easy to open and eat. I recommend sending your child’s snack separately inside his/her backpack, especially if your child brings a lunchbox/lunch bag when packing lunch from home.

*Children are allowed to bring a water bottle to school. 

*Please return your Library book inside your plastic bag on or before 10/21.  Children will have Book Fair during Library on 10/21! Children will not check out a new book as a result of the Book Fair.    

*Monday, 10/27: Wear purple day!

*Tuesday, 10/28: Wear red day!

*Tuesday, 10/28-Friday, 10/31: 12:55 early dismissal days.

*Friday, 10/31: Halloween parade and party!   

Fundations: Unit 3: We will begin Unit 3 on 10/14.  We will read, sound out, spell, and write short vowel words with a digraph.  We will practice the following digraphs: wh, ch, th, sh, and ck.  We will mark the digraph by underlining the digraph in each word.  Unit 3 story: Cod Fish; Unit 3 trick words: as, has, to, into; we, me, he, she, be, for, or.  

Reading/ELA: Fishtank ELA: Unit 1: What makes a good friend?  Please refer to Unit 1 letter that was sent home in your child's folder on 9/8.  

We will begin Unit 2 on 10/10.  Unit 2 is Folktales Around the World.  Please refer to Unit 2 letters that will be sent home inside your child's folder on 10/14.  

Practice box high frequency word likst 1: I, a, like, to, see, are, go, the, is, we.   

Practice box high frequency word list 2: and, be, help, play, with, you

Practice box high frequency word list 3: for, have, he, look, too, what.

Practice box high frequency word list 4: do, find, sing, funny, no, they.

Practice box high frequency word list 5: all, does, here, me, my, who. 

Practice box high frequency word list 6: friend, full, good, hold, many, pull

Children will be assessed on Unit 1 words the week of 10/27.  

Practice box high frequency word list 7: Unit 2: away, every, call, come, hear, said. 

Math: We will review proper number formation, counting, shapes, number words zero to ten, addition and subtraction readiness, using a ten frame, and will find ways to make numbers up to 10 (like 2 and 3 make 5 or 7 and 3 is 10).

Unit 1 vocabulary: 

Mathematical: addition, count back, count on, fact family, subtraction

Academic: model, represent

Additional: number partner, equal sign (=), equation, plus sign (+), total, equal/equal to, minus sign (-), addition, equal/equal to, equal sign (=), equation, minus sign (-), plus sign (+), subtraction.  

Lesson 1 will have 5 sessions/days 9/17-9/23.  We will find partners for 10 (like 5 and 5 or 8 and 2).  

Lesson 2 will have 5 sessions/days 9/24-9/30.  We will Add and Subtract Within 10. 

Lesson 3 will have 5 sessions/days 10/1-10/7.  We will use Counting Strategies to Add and Subtract.  Lesson 3 vocabulary: add, minus sign (-), plus sign (+), subtract, number line, count on, count back.  

Lesson 4 will have 5 sessions 10/8-10/15.  We will Use Addition to Subtract.  Lesson 4 vocabulary: related facts, part, part, whole, total.  

Lesson 5 will have 5 sessions 10/16-10/23.  We will solve addition and subtraction word problems to 10.  Lesson 5 vocabulary: fact family. 

Week of 10/27: We will review and assess Unit 1. 

Grammar skills: September: we will review proper sentence mechanics (starting each sentence with an uppercase letter and ending with proper punctuation).

Writing skills: September: we will review proper letter formation and will write one/two sentence(s) using various sentences starters or prompts.  Focus will be placed on starting each sentence with an uppercase letter and ending with proper punctuation. We will use various read alouds to learn how writers work.  

Week of 10/27 Homework (Please refer to Return to school/yellow dot side of school folder.

Mon. Fundations practice page 

Tues.  Math practice pages (stapled together)

Wed.  Math practice pages (stapled together)

Thurs. Please review the new practice box word list.  

Fri. none

please refer to your child's Jeffrey Clark school folder...homework or papers that need to be signed and returned are placed in Return to School/ Homework pocket/yellow dot side.  The other side of the folder is Keep Home/green dot side...please remove papers from this side each night.