June 2025
Upcoming Events
- Tuesday, June 3, 2025: Virtual Coffee & Conversation at 9:30 AM
- Thursday and Friday, June 5, 2025 and June 6, 2025: NO SCHOOL for Eid al-Adha & Clerical Day
- Wednesday, June 4, 2025: Marking period 3 ends
- Tuesday, June 10, 2025: Class 1-119 & 1-120 rain date field trip to Queens County Farm
- Wednesday, June 11, 2025: PTA’s Father’s Day pop-up sale
- Friday, June 13, 2025: PTA’s Carnival
- Wednesday, June 18, 2025: PTA virtual meeting at 6 PM
- Thursday, June 19, 2025: NO SCHOOL- Juneteenth
- Friday, June 26, 2025: Last Day of School!
Reminders
- First Grade Arrival & Dismissal – Door A
- The school day starts at 8:10 AM and ends at 2:30 PM. Please make sure your child comes to school on time.
- First grade Lunch is from 11:19 AM – 11:45 AM; Students have Recess from 11:45 AM – 12:09 PM
- Please review and return your child’s Homework everyday; please clean out your child’s daily folder each day.
Learning Focus
Literacy
Into Reading: Unit 10 – Dare to Dream
Focus: Students will recognize that good things can happen when a person is brave enough to try something new. They will read about inventors, architects, and others who have been brave and tried new things.
Essential skills: topic and central idea, retell, setting, research: present information
Writing
Into Reading: Writer’s Workshop: Unit 10: Informational Text: Biographical Essay
Focus:
Students will be able to write an essay about someone who inspires them.
Focal Text: The Girl Who Could Dance in Outer Space: An Inspirational Tale About Mae Jemison by Maya Cointreau
Math
Envisions 2.0
Kindergarten:
- Topic 14: Describe and Compare Measurable Attributes; Working with Money
- Step-Up to Grade 1
Grade 1:
- Topic 14 – Reason with Shapes and their Attributes
- Topic 15 – Equal Shares of Circles and Rectangles
Social Studies
Passport to Social Studies, Unit 4: Community Economics, continued
Students will be able understand the differences between needs and wants, goods and services, and producers and consumers.
Science
Amplify Science
Unit 3 – Spinning Earth, continued
Students will become sky scientists. They will record, organize, and analyze observations of the sun and other sky objects as they look for patterns and make sense of the cycle of daytime and nighttime.
First Grade and K.1.2 Team
- Mrs. Hernandez, K.1.2
- Ms. Walsh, 1-120
- Mrs. Romano, 1-119
- Ms. DeCanio, 1-207
- Ms. Yeung and Ms. Cuevas, 1-205