March Newsletter

Friendly Reminders

School begins promptly at 8:40am and ends at 3:00pm.

Homework is sent home on Monday. It is to be completed and returned to school by Thursday.

Please remind your student to bring their library books back to school!

Thank you for your commitment and dedication to your child’s education. Please reach out with questions, concerns, or comments.

Phone: (503) 916-5686 or email: smarquardt@pps.net

First Grade Literacy Pilot

The first grade team is piloting one of the options for a new literacy curriculum for next year. Students are learning about opinion, persuasive and review writing. In reading students are participating in word sorts to increase phonics and spelling awareness. Starting after spring break, we will be piloting a reading workshop model.

The programs are:

Units of Study—Writing

Units of Study—Reading

Words Their Way—Phonics

Reading At Home

We are working hard to increase our reading fluency, accuracy, and comprehension skills. We need your help! Please have your child read to you for at least 15 minutes every night. If you need books at your child’s level, please let us know.

March Highlights

Academic Focus Areas:

*Addition and Subtraction facts

*Skip counting by 2’s, 5’s and 10’s

*Measurement: Height, weight, inches

*Persuasive, opinion, review writing

*Identifying an author’s purpose, understanding a story theme

*Phonics and word recognition: long vowels: a (ai,ay), e (ea), o (oa, ow).

Coming Soon!

·       Spinning Shamrocks Celebration 9:45-10:05 – March 17

·       Bassotto Gelateria to support Faubion!  20% of sales from 3:00-9:00 comes back to our school community! I’ll be there, too!

1760 NE Dekum St.

·       Late Opening – March 16     

·       No School – March 21 –25

Spring Break