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 Monday, 12/8. 

*Philadelphia Union Assembly Wednesday, 12/10! If you are a fan, wear your Union gear! Or if you play soccer or are a fan of soccer, wear your soccer jersey or shirt!  

*Winter Concert 12/17 9:15!   

Fundations: Unit 6: We will begin 12/3.  We will read, sound out, spell, and write short vowel words with a base word and suffix s.  We will mark by underlining the base word and circling the suffix s.  Unit 6 story: Mack and Bugs; Unit 6 practice box words: were, are, who, what, when, where, there, here.  

Reading/ELA: Fishtank ELA: We will begin Unit 3 on 12/4.  Unit 3 is Amazing Animals.  Please refer to Unit 3 letters that will be sent home inside your child's folder on 12/4.  In this unit, students begin their exploration of animals and animal adaptations by reading a collection of nonfiction texts.    

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

Practice box high frequency word list 8: Unit 2: animal, how, make, of, some, why.

Practice box high frequency word list 9: Unit 2: her, our, she, now, today, would.  

Practice box high frequency word list 10/Lesson 9: Unit 2: after, draw, read, was, write, pictures.  

Practice box high frequency word list 11/Lesson 10: Unit 2: eat, one, small, give, put, take

Children will be assessed on how well they can read the Unit 2 practice box words the week of 12/8.  A review list will be sent home inside your child's folder on 12/1.    

Practice box high frequency word list 12/Lesson 11: Unit 3: live, blue, their, water, little, where, cold, far.  

 Practice box high frequency word list 13/Lesson 12: Unit 3: been, brown, know, never, off, out, own, very.

Math: Math: We will begin i-Ready Unit 2 Addition and Subtraction Within 20 on 11/3. 

Unit 2 vocabulary: addend, compose, decompose, make a ten, teen numbers, explain, strategy, add, count on, doubles, equal, equation, fact family, ones, plus, tens, total.  

Unit 2 Lesson 6: teen numbers (11/3-11/11).      

Unit 2 Lesson 7: add three numbers (11/12-11/18). 

Unit 2 Lesson 8: make a ten to add (11/19-11/25). 

Unit 2 Lesson 9: use a ten to subtract (12/1-12/5). 

Unit 2 Lesson 10: doubles and near doubles; doubles plus one; doubles minus one (12/8-12/12).  

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 12/8 Homework (Please refer to Return to school/yellow dot side of school folder.

Mon. Fundations practice page

Tues. Please review the Fundations practice box word list. 

Wed.  Math practice page

Thurs. Math practice page; 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.