Welcome to Curriculum First Grade Night First Grade

Welcome to Curriculum First Grade Night First Grade 2017 -2018

Agenda Welcome Debbie Falkner What is first grade all about? What will your child be doing in first grade this year? • • Math Writer’s Workshop Guided Reading Reader’s Workshop • Letterland • Science/Social Studies/ Project Based Learning • Field Trips • Homework • Interims/Report Cards • Game, Game! Pam Gill/Debbie Falkner Lesley Christie/Joanna Klager Debbie Falkner Ashley Landis/Danielle Makesyn Tiffany Norman Jennifer Robertson Pam Gill

Math • Common Core Math – Math Stations – Differentiated Math Groups – Building Concepts – Math Talk – Quick Practice – Student Leaders – Homework

Writer’s Workshop • Workshop Cycle Learning & Instruction • Mini-lesson • Common Core Focus: narrative, opinion, and informative writing • Student Application (write, respond, confer) Independent Writing – Cycle of prewriting, drafting, revising – Edit, publish, Author’s Celebration • Reflection

Guided Reading • • Instructional Reading Levels = Guidelines Small Groups Focused Strategies and Skills Lesson Breakdown – Introduce text – Focused Prompt or Reading Behavior – Students Read Silently or to Teacher – Teaching Point – Word Work – Comprehension Check • Oral • Written

Reader’s Workshop • Workshop Cycle Learning & Instruction • Mini-lesson • Student Application (read, respond, confer) • Reflection • Primary focus – Creating a community of readers and thinkers – Decoding Skills – Comprehension Skills

• Our Word Study program is……. Letterland Students will learn spelling patterns in words to help them decode tricky words as well as write new words.

Science Social Stuides Science • Pebbles, Sand Silt • Balance and Motion • Organisms • Earth, Moon, and Sun Social Studies • • • Community Citizens Traditions around the world Maps Supply and Demand/ Goods and services

Field Trips • The first grade team is currently in the process of planning field trips for this year. We will be glad to share the dates and locations with you soon. • Please remember…. If you volunteer to chaperone on a field trip, you must register as a WCPSS volunteer on a school computer.

Homework • Get Go Gator signed and discuss your Child’s reflection sheet. • Read EVERY night (10 minutes. ) • Math pages… will be introducing • soon • Practice sight words & word families • Wake County policy is that first grade homework should take no longer than 20 minutes each night. Blue homework folders will be sent home on Mondays and will be expected to be returned on Fridays of the same week. • Letterland practice…will be introducing soon

Project Based Learning • Community/Citizenship • Traditions Around The World • NC Habitats • World Environments • Insects & Plants • Writing like a Scientist

Interims & Report Cards • Interims sent home to students half-way through 1 st quarter, 2 nd quarter, 3 rd quarter, and 4 th quarter. Parent conferences will be held at any time upon request. • Report cards are sent home with students at the end of each quarter. • Student-led conferences will be at the end of the 4 th quarter.

GAME! First graders are worth a million!

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