KEEPING IN TOUCH with you

Each week a newsletter will be sent home in your child's Friday Folder. It will provide you with information on what's happened in our classroom, and keep you posted on events in the weeks to come.

You might also be interested in "Pathways" which is Diamond Path's electronic mail list-service. By subscribing to Pathways, you will receive weekly mailings with timely news and information about our entire school. Click here to go to the Pathways Signup Page

GETTING IN TOUCH with me

You can contact me in any of the following ways:

• Electronic Mail - Emily.Goltz@district196.org
• Front Office - call the school's main office (952-423-7695) and the front office staff will take a message for me. I will return your call as soon as I'm available.
• Voice Mail - 651-683-6969, extension 92830

IMPORTANT DATES and EVENTS in FIRST GRADE

For the most current and comprehensive listing of Diamond Path events,
visit the School Calendar page.

AREAS of FOCUS for the SECOND TRIMESTER

• MATH
  Geometry, data collection, graphs, addition & subtraction strategies
• LANGUAGE ARTS
  Writers' workshop, readers' workshop, word study, handwriting
• SCIENCE
  Plants
• SOCIAL STUDIES
  School communities- past, present, & around the world
  
• HEALTH
  Dental health
  

Specialists: in 1st grade, we are on a six-day cycle in which the specialist classes rotate amongst the following classes:

• Physical Education (PE)
• Spanish or Chinese
• Library
• Art
• Communications and Cultures
• Music