2026-2027 1st Grade Mrs. Karen DeNardo 1D
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WELCOME
1P HOMEWORK
June 22, 2026
PARENTS PLEASE CHECK
OUR WEBSITE DAILY
IMPORTANT REMINDERS"H" green dot notebook... Please always check the website for clarification as well.
*Snack money must be kept in student's lunchbox or if they don't bring a lunch box in their green folder*
*All students should have a grade level silent reader with them in class every day.
*Just a reminder about birthday celebrations- Please send me an email or note a week in advance so that I can approve the snack.Welcome back!
I am so happy to have you in my class this year. We are going to have an amazing time and work together as a TEAM to ensure that this year is productive and memorable. Please take some time to navigate through our daily website page where you will find much more information. I look forward to seeing you all at our meet the teacher night on September , where we will discuss First Grade.
Mrs. Paccione
June 22, 2026
Read- 15 min- each night-
Reminders:
ALL BOOKS AND FOLDERS ARE TO STAY HOME
Summer assignments and report cards were sent home today in your child’s blue test folder or green “H” folder. Please keep them in a safe place.
11am dismissal- dress down tomorrow.
Students must be on time to school- lateness is effecting them and they are missing work... any missed work will now be sent home for homework begining January. Students also must be in FULL UNIFORM (gym Mon.-Tues.) all other days winter uniform.
You log into to clever using the same information from KNG. your email and PW
PLEASE remember to put snack money in an envelope with name on it in green folder or lunchbox
EVERY NIGHT please check your child's pencils. They should have 4 sharpened in their pencil cases with erasers every day in their pencil case not their art case!! Please continue to practice navigating through IXL picking either Math- or ELA...we showed them how to go through clever. We are asking that you practice every other day with them...they need to know on their own how to go on and get to 1st grade and either Math- or ELA.
REMINDERS-
1. Please return any necessary forms along with payments in an envelope with your child's name and grade on the envelope and the event's name.
2. All students must have a coat on every day. We continue to go outside and it is getting colder. Unfortunately they go outside with our without a coat.
3. All pencils should be sharpened every night- with homework- and especially check art bags and pencils over the weekend
4. Please remember that homework is randomly collected and graded including IXL.
5. All students must have a silent reading book in class -grade level appropriate EVERY DAY!!!!!! All students should have a grade level reading book in class their choice. When they finish reading it, they should switch to a new one.
6. Please remember that you need to email me or write a note to me directly if your child is going home a different way than their usual way even if the person is listed on the emergency contact form. Thank you for your cooperation.
7. Coloring books and crayons are allowed for recess. Please put an extra set of crayons and a coloring book in a ziplock bag with their name on it and place it in your child's school bag.
8. See test schedule below
9. Students NEED to know ON THEIR OWN how to navigate in IXL- weekend homework will start being assigned and randomly graded. Parents I ask that you don't do it for them, because they are struggling in the classroom telling us they don't do it at home.
LOOKING AHEAD:
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MATH REVIEW EVERY NIGHT (in RED)
Add plus + ex: 5+2
Sum= equals ex: 5+2=7
parts 5+2=7
whole 5+2=7
number bonds the two addends/parts go in smaller circle - sum in big circle
subtract Minus -
In all +
How many more - (subtract)
Find the difference - (subtract)
Review CUBE sheet
Doubles Fact
Near doubles
Sum (whole)
Parts (addends)
Partners (doubles-using cubes)
Couting back (subtraction)
Count on (addition)
Related Facts (addition and subtraction)
patterns (increase or decrease by 1)
Ten Frame
Making Ten
Graphs
Data
Tally Chart
Least
Greatestreview spelling of number words on goggle classroom
tens
onesgreater than less than equal too
hundreds
Student are being taught to solve word problems by using a number line: counting back for subtraction and counting on for addition., they also have been using manipulatives such as cubes as counters, and recently number bonds. Please reinforce those strategies at home.When reviewing for ELA and or Spelling, it is important to spend sufficient time. Read the story over again each night. Review key words, phonics, high Frequency words, skills focused in the story, grammar and vocabulary in context.
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1. snack & water is sold daily at lunch and on 1/2 days $1.00 each-if you choose to bring in your own snack, it must be PEANUT FREE students should not be bringing in lunch bags on 1/2 days- only if they are aftercare.
2. Please keep seperate water bottles for lunch in lunchbag and one for class out of lunchbag. Parents please check water bottles to make sure the lids are leak proof and securely on- we would like to prevent any spills. NO METAL are allowed- unless they have a sleeve or boot on them.
3. Just to remind you students are not allowed to wear their jackets in class...ONLY SCHOOL FLEECE or SCHOOL SWEATER- NO SCHOOL HOODIES. Please refer to the school handbook uniform policy. I ask that you PLEASE label all fleeces, gym sweatshirts, and sweaters with your child's name in them.4. Please check website every night as well as "H" notebooks. Our google classroom is informative as well. Please use it. Homework is to be completed every night in the students handwriting. Missing homework is -5 off of 100 and is not accepted if it is in the wrong book, photocopied or on looseleaf. We pack up every day together and write the books along with the color of the notebook they are to take home. Homework is assigned each night and due the next day.
Test Schedule: week ofJune 8-June 12
Monday- Math topic 12:1 (use IXL and sm wbpgs to review)
Tuesday- Reading/Soc.St.- "The Statue of Liberty"(go over vocabulary and classwork questions in blue dot and on Google classroom)
Wednesday NONE
Thursday- NONE
Friday- NONE
This and That from
- Please check your child's water bottle that it is Plastic only and that it is leakproof- NO STANLEY bottles. We will have water bottle breaks at our hydration station... please make sure they are not in metal and are leakproof.
- Review using the bathroom- what is an emergency and what is not. I appreciate it.
- Please make sure that your child eats a well balanced breakfast in the morning. Our lunch is later than last year unfortunately we are not allowed to have snack.
- PLEASE send in your child's sheet of labels if you haven't. They are needed for their books.
- 1. Our School day begins at 7:50am and dismissal is 2:30pm. We enter and exit the school yard side door where the steps are. Please remember that once we enter the building any student after that will be marked late.
2. All parents and guardians on file MUST write a note if your child is being dismissed differently than normal routine - ex: family member/grandparent,another parent in the school... picking up, aftercare, not taking the bus etc.
3. Children are allowed to have a REUSABLE PLASTIC water bottle in school throughout the day. Please only send water in a spill proof container and please check them at home before putting them in their school bags. These water bottles should be separate from lunch bags. NO METAL WATER BOTTLES/HYDRO FLASKS will be allowed.-
4. Please adhere to the uniform policy that can be found in the "handbook" section of our website. Students are allowed to wear their gym uniforms on Yoga and Gym days only. Mrs. O’Connor has touched base with Flynn and O’Hara and they have confirmed that our school’s uniform is NOT on back order-therefore all students should be in proper uniform on the first day of school and moving foward. -
5. Class birthdays can be celebrated in class. Students are welcome to bring in a treat to celebrate their birthday with their classmates. I ask that you stick to one thing: ex: vanilla cupcakes or chocolate cupcakes (not a choice of each)... same with munchkins… we have peanut allergies (must be made in a peanut free facility) and red dye- so NO SPRINKLES. Parents please email me at least one week prior to your child's birthday so that we can plan something together. Summer birthdays will be celebrated during the month of June. As for other celebrations such as Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's Day, Easter, and End of the year- I ask that you follow my requests only that will be communicated through our class moms. -
6. Please email me with any questions or concerns you may have during the school year [email protected]. Please understand if you are emailing me during school hours I will get back to you on a break, or during lunch time if I can. If not, you will hear from me at the end of our school day. I am available Monday-Friday.
7. Please get into the habit of checking and reviewing your child's grades regularly on the report card website; FACTS (it will open in October for the parents). In addition all assessments are returned home in our “BLUE" Tuesday Test Folder". Parents MUST sign and empty out the folder every Tuesday when it comes home. Please send it back on Wednesday mornings. Any and all monies must be put in an envelope, sealed with your child’s name and grade on it and the attention of whom it is going to… Please DO NOT staple money to sheets. Everything needs to be in an envelope.- 8. In first grade we use, on a daily basis, crayons, glue sticks, scissors and pencils. PLEASE check your child’s pencils everyday and make sure they are sharpened…it’s part of homework. All supplies will be kept at school on their desk in their seat book sack. If I see that they need something replaced I will write you a note in their “H” book.
9. Please check their “H” book every night as we begin to introduce copying. Please check the website as well for any clarification. I will write notes in their book as well if need be.
10. If your child is absent, and you are requesting to pick up homework, it will be left at the office at 2:45… not before. If it is going home with another student in the classroom or building, please call the office and let them know.
11. Please check website every night as well as "H" notebooks. Our google classroom is informative as well. Please use it. Homework is to be completed every night in the students handwriting. Missing homework is -5 and is not accepted if it is in the wrong book, photocopied or on looseleaf. We pack up every day together and write the books along with the color of the notebook they are to take home. Homework is assigned each night and due the next day.
JUNE
6/1- NO SCHOOL (teacher's meeting) pre-k in the bdlg.
6/3- 1st grade end of year trip
6/4 &6/8 (Dress down for 1st grade) gift cards
6/5- DONUT Day dress down
6/5- First Friday MASS- 8:30am
6/12 - Half Day - 11:00AM dismissal - 8th Grade Graduation
6/18 - Last day of Aftercare- dress in red, white and blue
6/19 - School Closed - Juneteeth
6/22- Report cards distributed
6/23 - Last Day of School - 11:00AM dismissal
PLEASE JOIN BY September 12th
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In order to join students (parents please do it for them) log in with their school google account. Each student’s email is (all lowercase)
First initial of first name . then last name @olqpsi.com
see my example:
Password for all students is ...olqp2033
(all lower-case) Please join each class
Notebooks:
blue dot: Spelling
red dot: ELA
green "H": homework
Folders:
Red: Science/Social St.
Yellow: stays in school
(independent/classwork work)-will be emptied quarterly.
Green: "H" folder goes home and gets returned every day and emptied every Friday.
RED SCHOOL SIGNATURE FOLDER: "Tuesday test/office" folder must be emptied, signed and returned the next day.- November:
November 10t
COLOR CODED NOTEBOOKS:- Green "H" is homework
- Blue dot it
*Purple TEST FOLDERS- go home every Tuesday and you must sign the front sheet. Empty papers out on the "AT HOME" side and return papers on the "RETURN TO SCHOOL SIDE."
SCHOOL TIMES/ Important Start Dates- Bell rings at 7:50am- anyone not present when bell rings will be marked late/absent.
- Dismissal is 2:30
- Morning and After Care begin on September
IMPORTANT:
I must have a note first thing in the morning if your child is going home a diferent way than stated on the first day of school. If I do not have a note they will go home as you have requested on the first day of school. In an emergency please contact the school office and let them know of any changes.BIRTHDAYS:
will be celeberated at lunch/recess time. Treats can be sent in. They must be peanut free, tree nut free and wheat free. They also must be individualy wrapped (in original packaging) you may make goodie bags but they will not be allowed to be opened in the classroom for safety. They will be sent home in the student's backpack.
Thank you Thank you Thank You....
I can not thank you enough for the abundance of supplies sent in. I appreciate all your contributions for our classroom.
