May 2025
Upcoming Events
- Thursday, May 1, 2025: Spring conferences from 4:30 PM – 7:30 PM
- Friday, May 9, 2025: PTA’s Mother’s Day plant sale
- Wednesday, May 14, 2025: Classes 1-119 & 1-120 trip to the Queens County Farm
- Friday, May 16, 2025: Classes 1-205, 1-207 & K.1-118A trip to the Queens County Farm
- Wednesday, May 28, 2025: In-Person Coffee and Conversation at 8:25 AM; PTA virtual meeting at 6:00 PM
- Monday, May 26, 2025: Memorial Day (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 9 – Grow, Plants, Grow!
Focus: Students will explore the great variety in the plant world as well as how plants grow and survive from season to season. They will uncover many of the reasons why people grow and protect plants.
Essential skills: elements of poetry, evaluate, text organization, media literacy: nonfiction forms
Writing
Into Reading: Writer’s Workshop: Unit 8: Informational Text: Descriptive Essay
Focus: Students will be able to write an essay telling what you learned from doing a science experiment.
Focal Text: One Bean by Anne Rockwell
Math
Envisions 2.0
Kindergarten:
- Topic 12 – Identify and Describe Shapes
- Topic 13 – Analyze, Compare and create Shapes
Grade 1:
- Topic 12 – Measure Lengths
- Topic 13 – Time
Social Studies
Passport to Social Studies, Unit 4: Community Economics
Students will be able understand the differences between needs & wants, goods & services, and producers & consumers.
Science
Amplify Science
Unit 3 – Spinning Earth
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