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. 

*Monday, 9/29: Sports day spirit day!  Wear your favorite team gear/jersey!  

*Field Trip permission slip due on or before 10/3.  Field Trip 10/17!  Rain date 10/24.  

Back to School: We will spend time learning classroom routines and learning about our new friends!  

Fundations: we will review proper letter formation, consonant and short vowel sounds, beginning word sounds, Beginner sight words, nonsense words, ABC order, and practice blending cvc words.   

Unit 1 Order of review: t, b, f; n, m; i, u; c, o; a, g; d, s; e, r; p, j; l, h, k; v, w; y, x; z, q/qu    

We will begin Unit 2 on 9/29: We will read, sound out, spell, and write 3 letter cvc words like job.  Unit 2 practice box words: a, I, is, his, of, and. We will mark the vowel by writing a breve/scoop above the vowel.     

Phonics: We will review letter sounds, identify pictures & words that begin with these sounds,review short vowel sounds, finding words that rhyme, identifying beginning, middle, & ending sounds (like p/a/n), and practice blending sounds to read & spell a word (like h/a/t).  We will also practice reading nonsense words to practice blending sounds (like tep or muz).  

Reading: We will review Beginner sight words. We will review letter sounds and letter formation, practice blending and reading CVC words, and will review high frequency words. The beginning comprehension skill is retell.  Learning to sequence beginning, middle, and end with details is an important first grade skill.  We will also identify characters and setting of the story.  Practice Box Words we will review from Beginners: 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.  

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.  

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.  

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 10/6 Homework (Please refer to Return to school/yellow dot side of school folder.

Mon. Math practice pages (stapled together)

Tues. Please review the practice box word list  

Wed.  Fundations practice page

Thurs. Fundations practice page  

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.