21. A Day Year in the Life of a
First Grader...
Schedule
Classroom Community
Curriculum
Supporting your 1st Grader
(More Info in the folder)
22. 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.
26. • 3 teachers support literacy
• Individualized and based on
on-going assessments
• Work on skills and strategies in
isolation and within books.
27. Reading + Word Work
Comprehension
Fluency and
Expression
Whole Word Recognition
Phonics
Phonemic Awareness
Comprehension
Fluency and Expression
Whole Word
Phonics
Phonemic
Awareness
28. Reading...
it’s more that just the words!
• Schema/Background Knowledge
• Questioning
• Inferring
• Visualizing
• Vocabulary
29. 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. 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
32. Publishing and Celebrating
• At the end of each unit
• Preserves the child’s own writing
• Celebrates our growth
as writers
33. We work on other writing skills, too!
• Handwriting
• Spelling
• Capitalization & Punctuation
• Grammar (nouns, verbs...)
34. 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.
35.
36. Foundational Ideas of Singapore Mathematics:
Focuses on “thinking” vs. “merely doing.”
Students learn to persevere in problem solving.
Encourages flexible thinking and perspective taking.
Learning progresses from:
37. First Grade Math Topics:
Numbers and Operations
(Addition and Subtraction to 100)
Mental Math Strategies
Money, Calendar, and Telling Time
Geometry: 2-D and 3-D Shapes
Picture Graphs and Bar Graphs
Measurement: Length and Weight
Getting Ready for Multiplication and Division
38. What Can You do to Support Math?
• Help to instill positive attitudes about math!
• Make math a part of your lives: play games, build, cook...
• Students should be able to do homework INDEPENDENTLY.
• Practice Math Facts (we’ll be providing more guidance on this).
• Try Problem of the Week!
• Attend Math Night on October 18th!
• More details on the page in your packet.
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
