Vivian Fry
1st Grade Team
- Bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education from Southeastern University
- Certified in Elementary Education (K-6), ESOL endorsement, reading endorsement, and Civics Seal of Excellence endorsement
- Teaching first grade for the 2026-2027 school year.
- This will be my 10th year teaching at MAC!
Reminders for this week!
Monday:
Tuesday: Semester dues are due today. Please pay $30 on MOO if you haven't already.
Wednesday: Picture day (send in form and wear uniform). This is also library day, so bring in library books.
Thursday: PM1 Star Reading Test. Make sure your child arrives at school on time, eats breakfast, and is well-rested.
Friday:
General Reminders
- Please send in class snack.
- Please pay for fall dues $30 on MOO by Tuesday, September 1st.
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: or, sing, thing
Continue to practice the following words: take, time, five, made, as, gave, an, man, all, home, tell, off
What are we learning?
Reading: Identify and describe story elements (characters, setting, and events)
Writing and Grammar: Write a sentence with a capital letter, noun, verb, spaces, and punctuation. Identify if a sentence is complete or incomplete. Declarative (telling) sentences and interrogative (asking) sentences
Math: Addition and word problems 1 through 10
Social studies: Explain the rights and responsibilities students have in the school community.
Science: Raise questions about the natural world, investigate them in teams through free exploration, and generate appropriate explanations based on those explorations. Using the five senses as tools, make careful observations, describe objects in terms of number, shape, texture, size, weight, color, and motion, and compare their observations with others.
Phonics: -ing, -ang, -ong, -ung (examples: ring, sang, long, hung)
Morpheme of the Week: prefix "re" means again (For example, rewatch means to watch again)
Important Dates
- September 2- Fall pictures
- September 3- PM1 STAR Reading
- September 7- HOLIDAY - No school for Students/Staff (Labor Day)
- September 10- Chick-Fil-A Spirit Night
- September 9- PM2 STAR Math
- September 25- House Day! Wear a yellow shirt and/or accessories for Eheys!
- October 7- End of 1st grading period
- October 8- Chick-Fil-A Spirit Night
- October 14- Field Trip to see Pinkalicious at the Lakeland Community Theater
- October 16- McKeel Closed Students & Staff (District Work Day)
- October 19- McKeel Closed Students & Staff (Polk Schools in Session)
- October 22- Fall picture retakes
- October 26- Report cards
- October 28- Field Trip to the Police Station
- November 11- McKeel Open for Students and Staff (Veteran's Day)
- November 12- Chick-Fil-A Spirit Night
- November 20-27- HOLIDAY- Fall break
- December 1- PM2 STAR Reading
- December 2- PM2 STAR Math
- December 10- PTO Family Movie Night
- December 11- House Day! Wear a yellow shirt and/or accessories for Eheys!
- December 15- Field Trip to Grace Manor
- December 18- End of 2nd grading period
- December 21-January 4- HOLIDAY- Winter Break
