Transcript Focus on developing listening skills and eye contact

Greeting
Morning Meeting
Focus on
developing
listening skills
and eye contact
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Leader
News of the Day
Special Classes
School Events
Mystery Word of
the Day/Daily
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•PRINCIPLES
•Community
of Learners
•Teaching
kids to care
•Do your
personal best
•Develop our
own rules –
achieve hopes
and dreams
for first grade
•Use of
classroom and
supplies
•Develop work
habits
Word Study
PROGRAM
GOALS
•Use high
frequency words for
writing
•Understand use of
word families in
spelling
•Developmentally
appropriate spelling
vocabulary and
personal choice
words
Writing Workshop
CHART
1. Focus
2. Content
3. Organization
4. Style
5. Conventions
*Free
Write (journal writing) *Writing Process (1sttry–
good copy) *Portfolio Collection *Young Author Story
SHARING
•Writing and
projects
•Morning
Meeting
•Star of the
Week
LITERACY STATIONS
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Creation Station (story responses)
Making words
Magnetic letters, words and sentences
Read/Write around the room
Book browsing
Puzzle Mania
I Spy words
•Houghton
Mifflin
Publishing
Company
Invitations to
Literacy
Book Box,
Big Books,
and thematic
hardcover
books
Four Reading Blocks
1. Story vocabulary, word skills, and reading
comprehension
2. Guided reading and small group instruction
3. Read Aloud
4. Self-selection
Self-Selection
•Choice based
on interest
•Books on level
•Book
browsing
Read Aloud
•Poetry
•Chapter books
•Stories related to
themes
• Lunch tickets made
payable to CRSD
Cafeteria Account.
• Questions? Call Mrs.
Roller in cafeteria
• Money must be sent in
envelope with name
or kept in purse or
bag. Recess is before
lunchtime.
CLASS SCHEDULE
•Daily schedule of
times and subjects (in
packet)
•Homework (establish
routine at home-need
guidance-not returned
unless corrections
needed)
•Scott Foresman –
Addison Wesley
Publishers
•Problem of the Day
•Homework Practice
page (see notes to
parents)
•Chapter Review Test
•Investigations-TERC
(focus on thinking skills)
•Hands on materials for
problem solving
Social Studies
HARCOURT
HORIZONS
•About My World
•The World around
Us
•Mapping
•Seasons and
Holidays
•Other cultures
•Key Questions
• Weather (Earth and sky)
• Organisms –living and
non-living (aquariums and
terrariums)
• Balance and Motion
*Kits
*Inquiry based approach and discovery
learning)
Health
• Health and safety
(home and school)
• Nutrition and food
groups
• Fire Prevention
• Dental Health
SPECIAL CLASSES
• SPECIAL SUBJECT SCHEDULE
• MS. MCCOLLUM-FIRST GRADE
• MONDAY
• TUESDAY
LIBRARY (send back books)
COMPUTER (sign up-volunteers)
*instruction-January
(Humanities-extension activity program)
• WEDNESDAY
GYM (sneakers)
• THURSDAY
MUSIC
• FRIDAY
ART (comfortable clothes)
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Grade Upcoming Events
• First Grade Bear ShowWed. Oct. 26th
• Spring trips to Howell
Farm (4/20)and Keswick
Theatre(5/11)
• Planetarium?
Absences – excuse note required - missed
schoolwork will be sent home
Birthdays – may send in a treat (class only)
Communication-newsletters and message book
(please check and initial nightly)
Folders – School, Homework, and Weekly Keep
Home (empty and return on Monday)
Star of the Week –note sent home-parents and
siblings welcome to attend presentation
–ME bag and Pet Journal
*Remember to sign up for
November conference.
Thank you for
coming to
Back to School
Night!