First Grade – PS115Q James J Ambrose School

December 2025

Monday December 1, 2025: Marking period 2 begins
Week of December 8, 2025: Computer Science Week
Thursday & Friday, December 11 – December 12, 2025: PTA’s Penguin Patch Winter Sale
Monday, December 15, 2025: Report cards distributed via NYC Student Accounts
Week of December 15, 2025: Spirit Week
Friday, December 19, 2025: PTA in-person meeting at 6:00 PM
PTA’s movie night at 7:00 PM
Wednesday, December 24, 2025 – Friday, January 2, 2026: Winter Recess (no school)
Monday, January 5, 2025: Return to school

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 10:50 AM – 11:18 AM; Students have Recess from 10:28 AM – 10:50 AM
Please review and return your child’s Homework everyday; please clean out your child’s daily folder each day.

Into Reading: Unit 4– Better Together

Focus: Students will listen to and read stories and informational texts about getting along and being a good sport.

Essential skills: ideas and support, topic and central ideas, evaluate, point of view, speaking and listening: give and follow instructions

Into Reading: Writer’s Workshop Unit 4- Writing Form: Procedural Text

Students will write a “how-to” book about how to make a new friend.

Illustrative Mathematics Unit 3 – Adding and Subtracting within 20

Focus: Students will develop fluency with addition and subtraction within 20, explore base-ten system and place value, and add 2 or 3 numbers with a total within 20.

Passport to Social Studies, Unit 2 – Families, Now and Long Ago

Focus: Students will identify how families have changed over time by comparing and contrasting families from today to families from long ago.

Amplify Science Unit 2 – Light and Sound

Focus: Students will be able to take on the role of light and sound engineers by investigating cause-and-effect relationships and learn about the nature of light and sound