Vivian Fry
1st Grade Team
Welcome to First Grade!
This is my ninth year teaching at McKeel Academy Central. I graduated from Southeastern University with a bachelor's degree in Elementary Education. I am certified in elementary education, and I am reading, civics, and ESOL endorsed.
I love traveling, shopping, and spending time with my family and friends. I also have a passion for learning and teaching. This year, my goal is to enrich your child with engaging and differentiated learning experiences to meet their needs and help them reach their full potential. I hope to instill a love of learning in your child, and I look forward to working together this year!
Please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns throughout the year.
Reminders for this week!
- Wednesday: Please send your child with their library book.
- Friday: Walk-A-Thon money is due
What should we work on at home?
- Read for 10-15 minutes at least four days a week. Your child can read to someone, with someone, or listen to someone read.
- Optional Reading and Math practice: Students may turn it in weekly for a reward, but they will not be penalized for not doing it.
- High Frequency Words (HFW) for this week: any, let, sit
Continue to practice the following words: take, time, five, as, an, man, made, all, gave, off, tell, or, sing, thing, home, give, think, thank
(Students will need to practice reading all the words. Students will need to practice both reading and spelling for the red words. )
What are we learning?
Reading: identify and describe characters, setting, and events in a story, retelling a story with beginning middle and end
Writing: writing a paragraph with complete sentences with correct capitalization, spaces, and punctuation.
Math: writing tens and ones in a number, understanding place value, read and write two digit numbers
Social studies: constitution, American symbols and landmarks
Science: scientific method, using the five senses to make observations
Phonics: An open syllable contains a single vowel that is not followed by another letter: she, hi, no, so, go. An open syllable may appear at the beginning, middle or end of a word: o / pen, mu / sic, ban/jo.
These vowels all make a long sound.
Important Dates
Friday, September 19- Walk-A-Thon money is due.
Friday, September 26- Walk-A-Thon
Thursday, October 9- End of 1st Grading Period, Chick-Fil-A Spirit Night, Field Trip to see “Junie B.’s Essential Survival Guide to School” at the Lakeland Community Theater
Monday, October 13- McKeel Closed Students & Staff
Wednesday, October 15- Picture Retakes
Friday, October 17- House Day! Wear a yellow shirt and accessories with uniform bottoms. Go Eheys!
Tuesday, October 21- Report Cards
Tuesday, October 28- PTO Annual Skate Night
November 10-14- Fall Book Fair
Thursday, November 13- Chick-Fil-A Spirit Night,
November 24-28- Fall Break
Tuesday, December 2- Field Trip to Grace Manor
Friday, December 12- House Day! Wear a yellow shirt and accessories with uniform bottoms. Go Eheys!
Thursday, December 18- PTO Movie Night in the Park
Friday, December 19- End of 2nd grading period, AR goal deadline
December 22- January 5- Winter Break
Tuesday, January 6- Students return to school
