1st Grade Newsletter – April 17th, 2026
Schedule Changes due to TCAP Testing
April 20-21-22
Lunch: No change in time: 11:10-11:40 Admin is asking that no parents sign up during testing to eat lunch at school.
Recess: 12:15-12:55
Specials: 11:45-12:15
Tiger Time: 2:10-2:55
April 28-29-30
Lunch: No change in time: 11:10-11:40 Admin is asking that no parents sign up during testing to eat lunch at school.
Recess: 12:15-12:55
Specials: 11:45-12:15
Tiger Time: 2:10-2:55
April 29: Field trip to Nashville Children’s Theatre to see the play Seussical. The cost for the field trip is $15.00 per student and can be paid at schoolcashonline.com.
May 5: No School for students/PD Day for teachers/Primary Election Day May 8: Field Day
May 13: Cinderella Ball/1:15-2:15pm/more information to follow May 15: Field Day Rain Date
May 17: Tiger Dash
Social Studies: Studies Weekly “Memorial Day” and “Fourth of July”
Spelling Words: maps mice hammer trimmed skipped scrub space pencil horse fence could they
Phonics: Blending, segmenting, tricky words, and decodable texts
Skills: Review & Practice: Building Sentences with Adjectives and Prepositions, Spelling Alternative ‘kn’ for /n/
Tricky Words
Wit & Wisdom
Focusing Question 1: Why do people admire Perrault’s Cinderella? Focusing Question 2: Why do people admire Rough-Faced Girl and Ella?
Texts: Cinderella, Marcia Brown, A Caribbean Cinderella, Robert D. Dan Souci; The Rough-Faced Girl, Rafe Martin
Math: Review Decomposing, Place Value, and Word Problems