• My email: corradettig@eastgreenwich.k12.nj.us
    My phone #: 423-0613 X 2117

                                                                    Weekly/Monthly Reminders:  
     
    *Please send your child with his/her Jeffrey Clark folder everyday.  Children will get this folder on the first day of school.    

    *Starting 9/6/24, 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. 

    *On 12:55 early dismissal days, children will only have snack time and not lunch in the morning.  Children may bring snack from home or purchase snack from the cafeteria.  We will not have a classroom afternoon snack time as a result of the early dismissal.  

    *Thurs. 5/8: Start of A-Z Summer Countdown! Please refer to the green letter that was sent home inside your child's school folder on 5/5 for the daily themes!  

    *Library: Children did not check out a new book last week on 5/23.  Children will have the Spring Book Fair on Monday, 6/2 during Library! Book Fair Family Night Monday, June 2nd, from 4:30–8:00 pm in the Clark Library!   

    *Monday, June 2nd: Clark Art Show and Ice Cream Social 6:00-8:00!  

    *Beginning Friday, 6/6: Students will be bringing home classroom items everyday until the end of school...please unpack these items each night so your child’s book bag will not be too heavy.   

    *Change of Daily Dismissal Form: Please complete the attached Change to Dismissal Form for a temporary change to student dismissal. This form helps us with a safe dismissal each afternoon.

    5 Day Specials Rotation Schedule: 

    Day 1 Library and Physical Education (please remember sneakers)

    Day 2 Music 

    Day 3 Physical Education (please remember sneakers)

    Day 4 Art

    Day 5 Spanish

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    Week of 6/2/25 schedule:

    Mon. 6/2 Day 1 Library and Physical Education (please remember sneakers)

    Tues. Day 2 Music; STEAM!

    Wed. Day 3 Physical Education (please remember sneakers)

    Thurs. Day 4 Art

    Fri. Day 5 Spanish

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    Scholastic Book Clubs: https://orders.scholastic.com/GXBHM

    Fundations: We will begin Unit 13 on 5/19.  We will read, sound out, spell, mark, and write two-syllable words with a suffix.  We will learn to circle the suffixes s, es, ed, and ing.  Unit 13 practice box words: work, word, write, being, first, their, look, new, good.  Unit 13 story: Brad's Lost Glasses.     

    Journeys: Unit 5 Lesson 25: Week of 5/19: theme: friendship and culture.  Practice box words; buy, city, family, myself, party, please, school, seven.  Comprehension skills: understanding characters and summarizing important story events.  Vocabulary: synonyms.  Phonics: vowel teams ou, ow, oi, oy, au, aw.  Grammar: contractions with not.  Superstar words: blossom, ledge, lugging, shady, shallow, cavern.  

    Journeus Unit 6: Beginning 5/27, we will cover as much as Unit 6 as possible before the end of the year.  A letter will be sent home detailing Unit 6 skills and the final practice box word lists will be sent home for review.  

    Math: We will begin Unit 6 on 4/11: Unit 6: Geometry and Measurement; Unit Overview: This unit introduces children to shapes, time, length, and money.

    Unit 6 Vocabulary: halves, hour, rhombus, vertex, whole, describe, prove, circle, equal parts, length, longer, minute, rectangle, shorter, square.  

    Unit 6 Lesson Number 22: 2D and 3D Shapes: 4/11-4/23. Lesson 22 skills/vocabulary: attribute, compose, edge, face, flat, side, solid, rhombus, trapezoid, vertex, describe, clue.  

    Unit 6 Lesson Number 23: Break Shapes into Equal Parts: 4/25-4/30: Lesson 23 skills/vocabulary: circle, rectangle, square, equal parts, fourths (quarters), halves, quarters (fourths), unequal parts, whole, always, prove.  

    Unit 6 Lesson Number 24: Telling Time to the hour and half hour: 5/1-5/8: Lesson 24 skills/vocabulary: analog clock, digital clock, half hour, hour (h), hour hand, minute (min), minute hand, o’clock, after, between.  

    Unit 6 Lesson Number 25: Compare and Order Lengths: 5/8-5/15: Lesson 25 skills/vocabulary: attribute, compare, length, longer, shorter, taller, longest, shortest, tallest, arrange.  

    Unit 6 Lesson Number 26: Measure Length: 5/15-5/22: Lesson 26 skills/vocabulary: compare, length, measure, unit, describe.  

    We will review and assess Unit 6 the week of 5/27.  

    Lesson Number 27: Money: 5/23 and week of 6/2.  Lesson 27 skills/vocabulary: cent (¢), dime, dollar ($), nickel, penny, quarter, sort, value.  

    Science: we will learn about patterns in the sky (sun, moon, and stars) starting 9/18.  November/December will include characteristics of living and nonliving things.  January topics will include animal and plant adaptations, what animals do in winter, habitats, and seasons.  February topics will include seasons. April/May topics will include Earth Day, light and sound.             
     
    Social Studies: some September topics that will be included in read aloud stories include: what makes a good friend, growth mindset, the zone of regulation, citizenship, school rules, Fall/Autumn.  We will begin Young Citizens on 10/11. We will begin with Unit 2 and learn what you know about school.  November will also include Veterans Day and Thanksgiving.  December: we will learn about the winter holidays. January: we will review citizenship and growth mindset, plan New Year goals, and learn about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and winter.  We will begin Young Citizens Chapter 3: What do we find in our neighborhood? on 2/3.  During February, we will also learn about African American heroes when celebrating Black History Month, the 100th day of school, Valentine's Day/friendship, Groundhog's Day, and Presidents' Day.  March topics will include St. Patrick's Day and spring.  We will also finish Young Citizens Chapter 3: What do we find in our neighborhood? and begin Young Citizens chapter 4-What Makes a Town? on 3/18.  May/June topics will include Memorial Day, American symbols and landmarks.                    

    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.  October, November, December: we will work on writing personal narratives.  Focus will be placed on having a beginning, middle, and end to each story, using proper sentence mechanics (uppercase letter to start, finger spacing between words, neatest writing, and punctuation), and adding details to sentences and illustrations.  We will begin Unit 5: nonfiction/informational writing on 1/6.  We will begin Unit 3: opinion writing/writing a book review on 2/19.  We will continue with Unit 3 fiction writing on 3/24.  May/June: Unit 6 author study of Mem Fox.        

    Tues., 9/10/24: Please refer to the letter inside your child's school folder concerning a practice word box-you can use your old one from Beginners or make a new one for first grade-the word box is for home and does not have to be brought to school.

    Week of 6/2/25 Homework (Please refer to Return to school/yellow dot side of school folder.

    Mon. none

    Tues. Please review the new practice box word list.   

    Wed.  math practice pages (stapled together); Please review the new practice box word list.   

    Thurs. Please review the new practice box word list.   

    Fri. none

    Homework: 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.