Transcript Welcome to Third Grade! - Loudoun County Public Schools

Welcome to First Grade
• Please sign up for a
conference time
• Please read over the PTA
proposed budget and cast
your vote
• Please be sure and check
out our volunteer
opportunities
Introduction
Meet Miss Daisley
Goals
• Develop self-control
and self discipline
• Develop good listening
skills
• Develop independent
working skills
• Develop responsible
individuals
• Develop social skills
Good Morning!
• Students begin walking to class at 7:35am
• The late bell rings at 7:50am.
• At 7:55, the students begin DEAR time.
Grading
The report card will have the following letters as indicators of development:
B
Below
*With assistance, student struggles to demonstrate partial mastery of
current grade level expectations
P
Progressing
*With assistance, student demonstrates partial mastery of
current grade level expectations
M Meets
*Student consistently meets and demonstrates mastery of
current grade level expectations
E
Exceeds
*In addition to meeting the standard, the student makes application
beyond grade level expectations
*If a • is placed in an area of the report card,
this means that the skill was not assessed during that particular quarter.
Pathways
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Word Work/Making Big Words
Students practice new vocabulary, spelling, and linking known words
to new words
Literacy Centers
Students work in small groups on independent activities to reinforce reading and
writing skills
Read Aloud
Teacher is reading text to students
Shared Reading/Poem
Reading a poem and finding words with certain features
Guided Reading/Literature Circles
Teacher assists and instructs as student reads
Independent Reading
Student reads without assistance while maintaining understanding
Writing Workshop
Students work on the elements of writing. They also learn about a variety of
texts.
Word Study
• Word Study is Loudoun County’s spelling
program. Words are sorted into groups
based upon their features.
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green
brush
place
grape
broom
play
grade
breakfast
plate
Mathematics
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Patterns
Money
Fractions
Geometry
Time
Measurement
Graphs/Charts
Problem Solving
•Addition
•Subtraction
•Place Value
•Probability and Statistics
Science
• Units
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Weather
Seasons
Matter
Force, Energy, and Motion
Habitats
Cycles
• Scientific Process
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Asking Questions
Communicating
Gathering Data
Making Sense of Data
Social Studies
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Units
Map and Globe Skills
Communities/Citizenship
Famous Americans
Economics
Australia
Alaska
Hawaii
Homework Policy
• Homework is a nightly 25 minute process
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Reading…Silently/Read Aloud- 15 minutes
Word Study (Spelling)
Math
Sight words
• Homework will be sent home every Monday and
should be returned on Friday.
(begins the first week of October)
Expectations
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Respect self
Respect others
Respect Arcola
Follow directions
Raise your hand
before talking
Behavior Management Plan
Food
• Breakfast: students may eat breakfast at school in
the morning when they first arrive
• Snack begins around 9:15 each day
*choose a healthy snack, make it peanut free
*water
• Lunch begins at 11:00 each day.
*joining your child for lunch
*adding money to their account
*ice cream (Thurs.) and cookie day (Mon.)
Communication
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Email
Arcola Website
Weekly Newsletters
Monthly Newsletters
Take home folder
Yellow Thursday folder
Conferences
Phone calls and notes as
necessary
Volunteers
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Classroom
Home
Book orders
Thursday Folders
Room Parent(s)
Bookroom Parent
Grade Level Representative
Cardboard Challenge
Click on the cardboard box on the home page
for information.
Housekeeping
• Class celebrations
*three each year
*1st Fall Harvest Party
• Birthdays
*No food
*Goodie bags
*Can donate a book to class
or to the library
• Field Trips
•Nurse
*October/Spring
*T-shirts
*Volunteers
*Medication/Fevers
Reminders
*T-shirts
-Cost $6.25
-Field trips/field day
-Keep at the end of the year
*Re-link to our Harris Teeter program and others.
This can be done online.
*Sign up for a family portrait.
*Join the PTA! 
To Do List…
 Conference Sheet
 Volunteer Opportunities
 PTA Information