24. Classroom Community
• Morning Meeting and
Afternoon Meeting
• Positive learning community:
Take risks, Mistakes are OK
• Children are involved in
setting expectations,
self-monitoring behavior,
and problem solving.
• Everyone contributes and
has responsibilities.
27. • 3 teachers support literacy
• Individualized and based on
on-going assessments
• Work on skills and strategies in
isolation and within books.
28. Reading + Word Work
Comprehension
Fluency and
Expression
Whole Word Recognition
Phonics
Phonemic Awareness
Comprehension
Fluency and Expression
Whole Word
Phonics
Phonemic
Awareness
29. Reading...
it’s more that just the words!
• Schema/Background Knowledge
• Questioning
• Inferring
• Visualizing
• Vocabulary
30. What can you do to support
Reading?
• Take-Home Book Bags
• Encourage reading strategies
• Share your own “reading life”
• Celebrate a variety of interests in reading
• More info in section of packet.
31. Writer’s Workshop
• Talk about 21C Learning!!!
• Familiar Structure:
-Mini-Lesson
-Independent Writing
-Conferring/Small Group
-Share
• Writing Partners
32. Units of Study
Narrative • Small Moments
• Realistic Fiction
Opinion • Writing Reviews
Informational
Non-Fiction
• How-To Books
• All About Books
Other • Songs from the Heart:
Music and Poetry
33. Publishing and Celebrating
• At the end of each unit
• Preserves the child’s own writing
• Celebrates our growth
as writers
34. We work on other writing skills, too!
• Handwriting
• Spelling
• Capitalization & Punctuation
• Grammar (nouns, verbs...)
35. What Can You do to Support Writing?
• Admire what your child brings home
(Take interest in the CONTENT of their writing.)
• Make your child feel like a famous author!
• Acknowledge and encourage risk taking
• Tell Stories
• More info on writing on page.
36. • Balance of traditional and reformed math
• Challenges children to illustrate
and articulate their
process and thinking.
Math Expressions
7+2=9
• Allows for open-ended thinking:
There can be more than one way
to explain a solution or think about something.
37. First Grade Math Topics:
Partners and Number Patterns through 10
Addition and Subtraction Strategies
Unknown Numbers in Addition and Subtraction (Algebra)
Place Value
Graphing, Comparison, and Data
Geometry and Measurement
Two-Digit Addition
Math
Expression
s
38. What Can You do to Support Math?
• Encourage the strategies of the math program
(they do work!)
• Trust : “the paper you see isn’t the program.”
• Try Problem of the Week!
• More details on the pages
39. 1st Grade Science is all about the
Earth!
• Practice being a scientist and following scientific process
• Recording in a science journal
• Most field trips support science
Units of Study:
Rocks
Oceans and Islands
Dinosaurs and Fossils
40. SOCIAL STUDIES
• Community Building
• Change Makers
• Maps and Globes
• C.A.R.E
• Holiday and Birthday
Traditions (pink paper)
41. Sneak Peek at Homework
HOMEWORK
• Start in Oct.
• T/W/Th
• Primarily Literacy
and Math
Book Bags+Logs
• All days of week
• Please initial each
day
• Feel free to write
comments or
notes.
• Initial each day.
• Look for teacher
feedback here.
• Main goal of
homework:
RESPONSIBILITY
