Welcome to First Grade!

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Welcome to First Grade!

• Mrs. Halls Class

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Our Class Schedule

• 800-825 Skills Practice, Problem of the Day,
  RAP, Handwriting
• 825 925 Math
• 930-1100 Language Arts (Reading, Phonics
  Wordwork, Spelling, Health/Science/ Social
  Studies)
• 1111-1141 Lunch
• 1145 -1215 Recess, Recess Pack-up
• 1215-110 Language Arts - Writing
• 115-205 Specials
• 210 Announcements
• Dismissal
  

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Report Cards Grading

• 3 consistently meets the standards and works
  beyond grade level expectations
• 3 consistently and independently meets the
  standard
• 2 progressing toward meeting the standard
• 1 limited or minimum progress toward meeting
  the standard
• These marks will be applied to the areas of
  Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, Science,
  Technology, and Health.

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What is a standard?

• A standard is a specific, major skill within a
  subject.
• Here is an example of a Reading standard
  ELACC1RF4 Read with sufficient accuracy and
  fluency to support comprehension.
• According to the Cobb County 1st Grading Period
  Guidelines
• A 3 would mean a child can read accurately,
  fluently with expression, and comprehend text
  that is higher than the required grading period
  reading level.
• A 3 means the child can read multiple text at
  Fountas and Pinnell level C with expression,
  comprehension and at least 95 accuracy.
• A 2 would mean the child can read multiple text
  at Fountas and Pinnell level B or above with
  expression, comprehension and at least 95
  accuracy or higher.
• A 1 would mean the child reads Fountas and
  Pinnell level B at 94 accuracy or below.

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Other Grades on the Report Card

• SSuccessful The student displays appropriate
  learner skills
• and
  behaviors.
• PProgressing The student applies appropriate
  learner skills
• and behaviors
  most of the time.
• NNeeds Improvement The student does not display
  learning
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  skills and behaviors that lead to success.
• These marks will be applied in the areas of Art,
  Music, P.E.,
• Learning Skills, Learning Behaviors, and Rules
  Procedures.

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Reading Example Skill SetsFor a complete list
www.cobbk12.org Click on PICASSO (Parents), then
the subject area grade

• Describe characters, settings, and major events
  in a story, using key details.
• Explain differences between books that tell
  stories and books that give information.
• Retells Stories with Beginning, Middle and Ending
• Compare and contrast the adventures and
  experiences of characters in stories.
• Describe the connection between two individuals,
  events, ideas, or pieces of information in a
  text.
• Identify the main topic and retell key details
  of a text.
• Identify reasons an author gives to support
  points in a text.
• Expands Vocabulary Through Reading

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Phonics SpellingExample Skill Sets For a
complete list www.cobbk12.orgClick on
I-Parent/Picasso

• Blends and/or Segments phonemes in words.
• Demonstrates understanding of spoken words,
  syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
• Decodes consonant blends, consonant digraphs, and
  vowel team conventions for representing long
  vowel sounds.
• Identifies Syllables (word parts)
• Applies Phonics Skills to Writing
• Reads Spells High Frequency Words (word wall
  words) in Writing

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Writing GrammarExample Skill Sets For a
complete list www.cobbk12.orgClick on
I-Parent/Picasso

• Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the
  topic or the name of the book they are writing
  about, state an opinion, supply a reason for the
  opinion, and provide some sense of closure.
• Write informative/ explanatory texts in which
  they name a topic, supply some facts about the
  topic, and provide some sense of closure.
• Write narratives in which they recount two or
  more appropriately sequenced events, include some
  details regarding what happened, use temporal
  words to signal event order, and provide some
  sense of closure.
• Participate in shared research and writing
  projects.
• Capitalization, Punctuation end marks (? . !)
• commas in a series.
• Basic Subject and Verb Agreement

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MathExample Skill SetsFor a complete list
www.cobbk12.org Click on I-Parent/Picasso

• Use strategies to add and subtract within 20
• Understand whole number relationships and place
  value (grouping tens ones)
• Understand linear measurement and lengths as
  repeating units
• Attributes of shapes, composing decomposing
  shapes

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ScienceUnits Integrated Into Language Arts
Instruction

• Plants and Animals
• Weather
• Water Cycle
• Sound
• Light Shadows
• Magnets

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Social StudiesUnits Integrated Into Language
Arts Instruction

• Our Earth Our Country
• Landforms, continents oceans
• American Heroes
• Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Lewis
  and Clark,
• Sacagewea, Harriett Tubman, Theodore
  Roosevelt, and George Washington Carver
• American Folktales
• John Henry, Johnny Appleseed, Davy Crocket,
• Paul Bunyan, Annie Oakley
• Producers Consumers/ Goods Services

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Homework

• The homework packet goes home on Mondays, and
  should be returned the following Monday. Your
  child should work on one page during a session.
• The homework packet and reading log should be
  stored in the purple take-home folder, and turned
  in EVERY Friday for the teacher to check.
  Homework is not graded, but study skills and
  accuracy/difficulty are noted.
• Homework provides your student the opportunity to
  practice learned skills build responsibility.
• Homework needs to be completed by the student.
  You may read the directions to your child and
  provide further explanation as needed, but please
  encourage him/her to do the work independently.
  Homework is a review of what has already been
  taught and should be completed by your child.

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Reading Log

• Reading is a skill that improves with practice,
  so encourage regular reading.
• Please read at least one book per night with your
  child and list it on the Reading Log.
• Read to your child, take turns reading with your
  child, and listen to your child read to you.
• Ask your child to retell details, such as his/her
  favorite part, who the important character was,
  and where the story happened.

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Media Center

• We will have a Media Lesson weekly.
• Children may go to the media center to check out
  books in the mornings, before announcements, and
  when given teacher permission during the day.
• New School-wide Reading Program
• (No Accelerated Reader Program)

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T.I.G.E.R. Reading ClubSchool Wide Reading
Program

• Teasleys Initiative to Guide Early Readers
• Student reads 15 books each month
• Answer 5 out of 10 questions on the Tiger Card.
  (Each question is worth a different amount of
  points.)
• Turn the card in to the Media Center.
• At the beginning of the next month they will
  receive their prize and certificate.
• Points will be tallied for the end of the year
  awards.

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Classroom VolunteersMany Opportunities

• Room Parents
• Materials Preparation (Home School)
• Celebration Activities or Holiday Party
• Field Trip Chaperones
• Chick-fil-A Biscuit Sales

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Classroom Visitors and Observations

• All visitors must sign in through the office.
• Parents wishing to observe the classroom must
  give 24 hours notice and the visit must be
  approved by the principal.
• Parents should not hang out in the classroom.
  Classroom observations may last 20-30 minutes.

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Conferences

• Conferences are the week of October 22.
• Please Schedule Other Conferences in Advance
  (minimum of 24 hours notice, please)
• Avoid mini-conferences in the morning while
  dropping off children or when volunteering.

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Testing Schedule

• CoGAT testing
• September 4 - 6
• - Measures abilities and is used in identifying
  children for special programs.
• NO CRCT this year.
• We will have some other form of assessment
  for determining your childs strengths and
  weaknesses.

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1st Grade T-Shirts

• Each 1st Grade class will have the same Tiger
  logo on a different colored shirt. We will wear
  these shirts for special activities and Spirit
  Days. Our class color is green.
• Please return order forms and 7 by Friday,
  September 7th.

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Odds Ends

• Write Your Students Name on Everything (jackets,
  sweaters, hats, mittens, bookbags, lunchboxes,
  etc).
• Your child needs to know how to tie his/her own
  shoes.
• Check your childs folder every single night for
  notes and information
• Build Responsibility allow your student to put
  his/her own folder in the bookbag or pack his/her
  snack.
• We have snack time each day. Students who eat a
  snack seem to be more alert and focused on their
  work instead of their hungry tummies. Please
  send only healthy snacks for your child to eat
  during this time each day, but avoid juicy items
  such as oranges and fruit cups. We do not snack
  spills to result in ruined work or happy ants.

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THE END

• Thank you for coming tonight.
• Email address blog
• mary.hall_at_cobbk12.org
• http//teasleyes.typepad.com/mary_hall