First Grade

April/May Dates:
Apr 28 - Science Heroes School Event (Consent form due Monday, 4/14) Stavrou Sports Day- wear Cubs or Sox or favorite team!
Apr 29 - SPIRITWEAR DAY! KFSA follow-up meeting
May 8 - FUNRUN 2025!
May 21 - Church Feast Day - church uniform; Talent Show & Fine Arts Night
May 22 - 5-8 Field Trip - Medieval Times; School Board meeting @ 6:30pm
May 23 - Institute Day - NO SCHOOL
May 27 - Track & Field Day
May 29 - P3 to 4th grade end of the year field trip to The Forge; Liturgy - church uniform
May 30 - Reptile Show School Event; Preschool Last Day!; Honors Day

Week of April 28th

Math: By working with more of the strategies that we've learned over the course of the year we will work with bigger numbers to add and find what works best for us. This week will have an emphasis on using place value to add before practicing with related facts and word problems.

Reading: We move on full steam ahead with poetry as we continue to explore rhyme through finding rhymes with different words and games where we have to find a match that rhymers. We'll also continue with finding the pattern songs in a poem.

Spelling: Our spelling focus will be words with /ou/ or /ow/ in them and we will focus on sorting rthem apart before the test this week.

Writing: Using the books borrowed from he library we'll find facts on our chosen subjects as well as finish our outlines before beginning to write our stories!

Social Studies: We will look at animal traits that are passed down from their parent and how they can help the animal in their lives. We'll also make a parts of a plant book while taking care of the plants we have planted in the classroom.

Field Trip Form: Coming home today is a field trip form for our final field trip of the year. We are excited to go somewhere we haven't before to make new memories! We'll be going to the Forge in Lemont on May 29th. Please review the form carefully as transportation is different for this field trip. It is the parent's responsibility to arrange or make a decision on transportation to and from the Forge, but we are providing an option to take the bus back to school. Drop off will not be at the school, students will be dropped off at the Forge to meet the teachers. Three options must be circled on the permission slip or it will be returned as incomplete. Thanks to Mrs. Sonia for organizing this new event :)

Church: Our next church service will be Wednesday, April 30th. This will be a prayer service so normal school uniform is great!

Spiritwear: Tuesday, April 29th will be a Koraes Spirit wear dress down day. Show school spirit by wearing Koraes tops or bottoms. Normal school uniform is required otherwise!

Fun Run: Our Fun run is quickly approaching! It will be on May 8th. More information to come about attending but we continue to accept pledges in order to meet our goal. We are halfway to our goal which means we earned our free Pizza Party schoolwide! This will be on May 2nd for all students :)

MAP testing: As a heads up, our final MAP testing of the year will begin during the week of May 5th and continue to the week of May 12th with make up sessions beginning the week of May 19th. Please keep this in mind as we move forward to these weeks.

STEAM Camp: Registration has begun for our third year of STEAM camp. This is our third year and it will be two full weeks M-F 9am-3 pm of science, art, and technology exploration! It is always a fun and collaborative experience for potty trained incoming pre-k 4 students all the way to 6th grade. It will run the week of June 9th and June 16th. For more information please e-mail Mrs. Letsos as aletsos@koraes.org.

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