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:
Wednesday: Library day, so bring in library books.
Thursday: Chick-Fil-A spirit night. Use code MAC2026 at checkout.
Friday: Police Station field trip forms are due.
General Reminders:
- Support first grade by participating in the fundraiser. Forms and money are due on Thursday, October 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: why, wash, wish
Continue to practice the following words: take, time, five, made, as, gave, an, man, all, home, tell, off, or, sing, thing, give, think, thank, Any, Let, Sit, Your, had, him, here, may, way
What are we learning?
Reading: Identify and describe story elements (characters, setting, and events) and retelling using the story elements.
Writing and Grammar: Identifying and using nouns. Writing paragraphs with an introduction, two reasons, and a conclusion sentence.
Math: Solving addition and subtraction problems with unknown parts.
Social studies: Voting
Science: Properties of matter
Phonics: two-syllable words (ex. napkin, picnic)
Morpheme of the Week: suffix "-ful" means full of (For example, powerful, which means full of power)
Important Dates
- 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 Theatre
- October 15- Fundraiser money and packets are due
- 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
