Welcome to First Grade

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Welcome to First Grade
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• 725 755 Homeroom/Morning Work
• 800 850 Specials
• 850 930 Morning Enrichment
• 930 - 1030 Math
• 1030 -1050 AR
• 1050- 1130 First Grade Lunch
• 1120- 1140 First Grade Movement/ AR
• 1140- 100 Language Arts, Social Studies,
  Science, and Writing Workshop
• 100- 210 Guided Reading Groups/Centers
• 215 Cleanup
• 230 Bus Riders Dismissed
• 235 Car Riders Dismissed
• 240 After-Care/Day-Care Dismissed

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Waiting in the morning
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Enjoying breakfast!
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Homeroom

• Students wait in cafeteria
• They enter classroom and put daily folder in
  basket and lunches on shelf
• They hang up bookbags and go to table
• They begin the morning activity that is put at
  their tables
• We do attendance and lunch count

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Hanging up bookbags
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MathWhole Group

• Carpet Time
• Calendar
• Money
• Warm up

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Math Compacting

• Students are assessed on the particular unit of
  study
• Teachers then group them according to test scores
  (Extension, Concept Development, Skill
  Development)

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Math

• Math is very much manipulative based. We have a
  new math series called Math Expressions. Look at
  the website found on individual teachers sites.

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Math Topics

• Understand and use the concept of ones and tens
  in the place value number system
• Represent quantity with numbers, models,
  diagrams, and number sentences
• Add and subtract small numbers
• Use tools for measuring length, weight, capacity,
  and time (hour, half hour, days in week, months
  in year, duration or sequence of events)
• Observe, create, identify, classify, describe,
  and build basic geometric shapes

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Math Topics, cont.

• Arrange and describe objects in space
• Solve simple problems, including geometric ones
  involving spatial relationships, and use the
  strategy of making a picture or diagram
• Pose questions and collect data, and organize and
  interpret data represented by tally marks,
  pictures, and bar graphs
• Money

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Language ArtsFlexible Groups

• Students work with me on specific skills based
  on assessment and student needs/guided reading
• Other groups in the room work on an independent
  activity based on the current unit of study in
  Language Arts
• Example Making Words, Listening Center,
  Reading, Journal Writing, and Science/Social
  Studies related center

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Language Arts Goals, cont.

• Apply more advanced phonics skills to decode
  words
• Recognize a bank of sight words
• Begin monitoring and self-correcting their
  reading
• Relate what they read and hear to their own
  experiences
• Produce text through speaking and writing
• Begin using the writing process to plan and
  produce writing
• Write a story that shows focus and organization

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Language Arts Goals, cont.

• Expand sentences and recognize paragraphs
• Apply basic rules of language and spelling
• Show evidence of the appropriate use of more
  formal language registers

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Social Studies

• Social Studies lessons might be tied into the
  Language Arts theme, or they may be an
  independent unit. We will study such things as
  US History, Map and Globe skills, Economic
  Concepts, American Heros, Folktales, and basic
  Needs and Wants

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Science

• Observe and measure weather
• Make observations/ask questions/investigate
• Light, sound, and magnets
• Shadows
• Daily needs of plants and animals
• Basic needs of living things

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Critical Experiences

• Science activities engaging the students in real
  life experiences.
• Example Watching and recording weather patterns

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LUNCH

• Lunch is 25 minutes long. Students are free to
  choose where they wish to sit.
• Feel free to join us for lunch.
• (Parents are asked not to bring in fast food
  lunches for their child when they visit for
  lunch.)

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Preparing for Home

• Students get book bag, folder and library books.
  These go home every night and come back everyday.
  (Very Important!!)

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HOMEWORK

• Homework will be sent home on a weekly basis.
  Spelling homework will be in the folder on Monday
  and due back on Friday. Students will have a
  choice of which activities they want to do as
  well as choose list A or list B for their words.
  Math homework goes home on Tuesday and Thursday
  and is due back the VERY NEXT DAY.
• Reading daily is a requirement. We will be
  starting AR soon and reading nightly will be a
  very big part of your childs success.

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Testing

• ITBS
• COGAT
• CRCT

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Volunteer Opportunities

• Teaching games and activities to small groups
• Helping out with art activities
• Accelerated Reader
• Sending in weekly snacks for the class
• Sending in supplies
• Any access to printing/copying facilities
• Ask homeroom teacher

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Thanks for coming!