Welcome to Mrs. Fahey's Class Page

Join me in the many adventures of First Grade! I have been teaching here at Diamond Path for over 20 years and I continue to learn something new every year. I look forward to getting to know your child and your family and working together to help your child have a successful year.

KEEPING IN TOUCH with you:

Each week a brief newsletter will be sent home in your child's Friday Folder giving you information about our week and Specialist's Schedule. I will have reminders about upcoming events, field trips, and school assemblies.

"Pathways" 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 Sign-up Page.

GETTING IN TOUCH with me:

You can contact me in any of the following ways:

Electronic Mail - Wendy.Fahey@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 92802

Areas of Focus for the First Trimester:

• Language Arts- Establishing our reading behaviors, choosing "Just Right" books, making connections to stories, participation in word study lessons and handwriting
  
• Writing- Launching Writer's Workshop and Small Moments and using our word walls
  
• Math- Making and extending and labeling patterns, practicing counting, breaking numbers apart, and beginning addition strategies
• Science- Weather
• Social Studies-" Who We Are" This unit has students making comparisons within our classroom and looking at differences and similarities of people from many different cultures and areas of the world. Later in the trimester, we begin a unit on How We Organize Ourselves
  
• Health- Hand washing, bus safety and fire safety, and making healthy choices