Vivian Fry
1st Grade Team
Welcome to First Grade!
I am so excited for this school year! 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
There is a $30 first semester due for ALL students. This will include the cost of our first grade field trip shirt and first semester field trips. Please pay by 9/5. If there is financial hardship, please reach out to me. Parents also have the option to buy a shirt on MOO for $15.
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: all, gave, off, tell
Continue to practice the following words: take, time, five, as, an, man, made
(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
Writing: writing a complete sentence with correct capitalization, spaces, and punctuation.
Math: identifying and describing 2 and 3 dimensional shapes, combining and taking apart 2-D and 3-D shapes
Social studies: characteristics of a good citizen
Science: using the five senses to make observations
Phonics: When /f/ /l/ /s/ or /z/ is heard after a short vowel at the end of a one-syllable word, it is spelled with a double ff, ll, ss or zz. (examples: jazz, bill, chess, huff)
Important Dates
Monday, August 25- Spirit Night at Mootown Scoops 3pm-9pm
Monday, September 1- HOLIDAY - Students/Staff (Labor Day)
Wednesday, September 3- Fall Pictures
Thursday, September 4- PM1 STAR Reading Test
Friday, September 5- PM1 STAR Math Test
Thursday, September 11- Chick-Fil-A Spirit Night
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
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
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
