Vivian Fry
1st Grade Team
Welcome to First Grade!
I am so excited for this school year! This is my seventh year teaching at McKeel Academy Central. I graduated from Southeastern University with a bachelors degree in Elementary Education. I am certified in elementary education, and I am reading 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 your child's needs and help your child reach his or her full potential. I hope to instill a love of learning in your child, and I look forward to working together this year! Feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns throughout the year.
What are we learning?
Reading: identifying the main idea and key details, comparing two texts on the same topic
Writing: Narrative writing
Math: Sorting objects by length, measuring in inches and centimeters
Social Studies: Goods, services, buyers, sellers, and producers
Science: living and nonliving things
Phonics: -tch trigraph (examples: match, stitch, catch, hatch, fetch)
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: every, write, those
- Continue to work on these words: all of the first, second and third nine weeks' words, which, right, these
(Students will need to practice reading all the words. Students will need to practice both reading and spelling for the red words. )
Important Dates
Tuesday, March 26- Report Cards
Friday, March 29- No School for Students/Staff
Monday, April 1- McKeel Closed Students & Staff (Polk Schools in Session)*
Wednesday, April 3- Field Trip to the Florida Aquarium
Tuesday, April 9- Spirit Night at Texas Roadhouse
Thursday, April 18- Stem Night at MAT
Friday, May 24- House cup celebration! Wear yellow to support Eheys!
Monday, May 27- No school (Memorial Day)
Thursday, May 30- Last Day for Students EARLY RELEASE
Our Schedule
8:00-8:30 Morning Routine
8:30-9:40 Math
9:40-10:10 Small Group Reading
10:10-10:50 PE- Monday and Wednesday-Friday, Art- Tuesday
10:50-11:00- Finish reading small group
11:00-11:15- Recess
11:17-11:42 Lunch
11:42-12:40 Reading
12:40-1:20- Grammar and Writing
1:20-1:40- Snack
1:40-2:10- Phonics/Phonemic Awareness
2:10-2:45- Science/Social Studies
2:45-2:55- Pack-up and get ready for dismissal
Monday 12:45-1:15 Spanish
Tuesday 12:4o-1:2o Library
Thursday 12:40-1:20 Music
