Gretchen Martinez
1st Grade Team
- Degree earned: Bachelors Degree in Speech Language Therapy from The University of Toledo.
- Professional Certificates: Exceptional Student Education, English Speakers of Other Languages, PreKindergarten/Primary Education, Reading.
- Teaching First grade for the 2026-2027 school year.
- Years of service in education: 26 years, 8 years at McKeel Academy Central
What Are We Learning?
Reading: Moral or theme of a story.
Writing: Parts of a sentence. Capital letter, punctuation, nouns (plural and irregular plural nouns), verbs, adjectives, possessive nouns; Narrative writing.
Math: Counting and identifying money.
Social Studies: Economic
Science: Life Cycles
Phonics: -ild, -old, -ost, -ind, -olt; wild, scold, host, kind, jolt; Red word: even; HFW: old, cold.
What Should We Work on at Home?
- Read for 10-15 minutes every night Monday through Thursday. You can read to someone, with someone, or listen to someone read. You can read a book, a magazine, on an iPad, however you choose... just LOVE it!
- High Frequency Words (HFW) for this week: as, an, man
(Students will need to practice reading all the words. Students will need to practice both reading and spelling for the red words. )
