March 2025
Upcoming Events
- Monday, March 3, 2025: Marking period 3 begins
- Thursday, March 6, 2025: Parent-Teacher Conferences from 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM and 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Monday, March 10, 2025: PTA’s Spring Picture Day
- Friday, March 14, 2025: 115th day of school (wear the school t-shirt); Report cards distributed via NYC Student Accounts
- Wednesday, March 19, 2025: In-Person Coffee & Conversation at 8:25 AM
- Wednesday, March 26, 2025: PTA Virtual Meeting at 6:00 PM
- Friday, March 28, 2025: Career Day
- Monday, March 31, 2025: Eid al-Fitr (no 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 7 – The Big Outdoors
Focus: Students will be learning about nature, and we will investigate how things in nature can change
Essential skills: Ideas and support, text organization, make inferences, point of view, research: gather information
Writing
Into Reading: Writer’s Workshop: Unit 7 – Poetry: Poem
Students will be able to write a poem about things they like.
Focal Text: Ask Me by Bernard Waber
Math
Envisions 2.0
Kindergarten:
- Topic 9 – Count numbers to 20
- Topic 10 – Compose and decompose numbers 11 to 19
Grade 1:
- Topic 9 – Compare two-digit numbers
- Topic 10 – Use models and strategies to add tens and ones
Social Studies
Passport to Social Studies, Unit 3: The Community
Students will be able to:
- identify what a community is and the members in a community.
- examine how maps are used to find different types of information about a community
- apply knowledge of rules and laws
- identify roles and responsibilities of citizens
- analyze images of human-made resources and how they meet a community’s needs.
Science
Amplify Science
Unit 2 – Light and Sound (continued)
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.
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