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t o st grade!

t o st grade!. 1. Samantha Bastian Rena Campbell Rachael McKnight Stacy Risinger Katherine Sand Nyesha Sevier Emily Smith Melissa Saur (ESL). What do we learn in First Grade?. Reading Workshop. Mini-Lesson Practice Independent Reading Partner Reading Small Group Reading.

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  1. to st grade! 1

  2. Samantha Bastian Rena Campbell Rachael McKnight Stacy Risinger Katherine Sand Nyesha Sevier Emily Smith Melissa Saur (ESL)

  3. What do we learn in First Grade?

  4. Reading Workshop • Mini-Lesson • Practice • Independent Reading • Partner Reading • Small Group Reading

  5. Reading Areas of Focus: • Word Recognition Strategies • Reading Comprehension Strategies • Fluency and Stamina in Reading • Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry

  6. Reading Grades will include: • Reading Rubrics/Checklists • Reading responses • Retellings • Independent Silent Reading Tests • High-Frequency Word Assessments

  7. Writing Workshop • Writer’s Workshop • Shared writing/interactive writing • Independent writing • Language/Grammar Skills • Phonics/Word Study

  8. Language Areas of Focus: • WritingProcess • Generate their own ideas for writing • Writing for different purposes • Word families used correctly in writing • Conventions (punctuation marks/Capitals) • Grammar (parts of speech) • Conferencing

  9. Language Grades will include: • Writing Pieces with grading rubrics • attached • Notebooks and Conferences • Grammar Skills • Word Study

  10. Phonics Workshop What does it include? • Study of word families • Study of phonics patterns • Making words • High frequency sight words

  11. Math Workshop • Math Talk • Problem Solving • Mini-lesson • Small Group • Seatwork • Math Stations

  12. Math What does it include? • Numeracy focus to 120 • Addition & subtraction strategies • Problem solving • Money • Time • Geometry • Organizing data into tables and graphs • Measurement • Place value • Fractions • Related facts • Fact fluency

  13. Math Numeracy • Counting forward/backward from 0 to 120 from any • given number • Nearby numbers • Using ten frames, number lines, • manipulatives and hundred charts • Skip counting by 2 (even and odd) • Skip counting by 5 (forward and backward) • Skip counting by 10 (on and off the decade, • forward and backward) • Doubles, doubles plus 1 or 2, doubles • minus 1 or 2

  14. Math Grades will include: • Problem solving / Story Problems • Skills practice/Math Journals • Math Reviews • Small group observations • Content Assessments

  15. Science What does it include? • Units of Study: • Body systems • Rocks/soil • Heat/temperature • Plants • Animals • Matter/energy • Hands-On Science • Classroom observations • Hands on • stations

  16. Social Studies What does it include? • Lessons on: • Citizenship • Customs and • traditions • U.S. symbols • Texas symbols • Landforms • Black history • Inventors

  17. Social Studies / Science Grading Report card and progress report grades in First Grade science and social studies will be reflected as E, S, or N. Teachers enter numeric grades for assignments and assessments into the District gradebook for progress reports and report card purposes. The district gradebook will convert the numeric grades to letter grades. 95 - Excellent (E) 85 - Satisfactory (S) 74 or below - Needs Improvement (N)

  18. Handwriting What does it include? • Letter formation • Spacing • Alignment • Neatness and appearance

  19. Technology • Raz-Kids Reading • I-Station Reading • Dreambox Math • Each of these programs may be accessed at home for additional support and extension. • Please send earphones for computer lab use.

  20. Homework! • Daily Homework Schedule: • 10 Minutes of Sight Word Practice • 20 Minutes of Reading (Take Home Books and Raz-Kids) • Additional home activities include counting, measuring, grouping, and other means of real world problem solving.

  21. Visit the First Grade website for lunch times. • Please limit visits to have lunch with your child to one or two times per week. Students learn important socialization skills when they eat lunch with their peers independently. • Please greet your child by the cafeteria doors when lunch begins. • Please allow your child to walk with his/her class back • to the classroom. Do not accompany your child • back to the classroom or playground.

  22. Water Bottles • Students need to bring a water bottle with a leak-proof cap to school. • Water bottles should have a leak-proof cap to avoid spills.

  23. Snacks Snacks:Students may bring one, healthy, dry snack to school. It will be eaten during instructional time. Your child may not bring a cafeteria snack back to the classroom after lunch. Please pack your child’s healthy snack at home. Students are asked not to bring snacks that contain peanuts into the classroom due to allergy concerns.

  24. gRAEt Community Plan • Students will follow our agreements for gRAEt classrooms! • Give 100% • Respect • Appreciation • Etiquette • Think/Stay Focused

  25. Behavior Management

  26. CHAMPS

  27. Continuum of Consequences • Verbal reminder • Teacher student check in • Reflection sheet • Teacher student meeting • Parent teacher conference • Office referral *Automatic Office Referral: Fighting, weapons, damage to school property, emotional outbursts that disrupt learning in the classroom*

  28. Parent Communication • Tuesday Folders • gRAEt Community Calendars • SeeSaw • Emails • Notes • First Grade Website • Check it out for all the updates in first grade! • http://staff.katyisd.org/sites/raefirst/Pages/default.aspx

  29. Parent and Visitor Identification (ID) Requirement:  All parents and visitors must now present a valid, current, government-issued picture ID outside of the main entrance at all Katy ISD campuses prior to gaining admittance.  Each campus is equipped with a controlled access system that includes a camera and an intercom that parents and visitors will need to utilize when presenting their ID for entrance.  To gain further access beyond the campus front lobby, individuals will again be required to present their ID to the front desk receptionist in order to be officially logged into the visitor tracking system.   

  30. Student Identification (ID) Badge Requirement: Students in grades PK-5 will continue utilizing their badges during lunch and library times. We are having our students keep their badges on throughout the day as a safety tool in case of emergency.

  31. RAE Field Trip T-Shirts Please order for our First grade field trips.

  32. Classroom Volunteers • Please visit the PTA website (www.raepta.org) to sign up for volunteer opportunities. • Volunteer Opportunities include: • Read Aloud • Copying for grade level • Sorting/straightening classroom libraries • Take Home Work Baskets • Parties/Field Trips

  33. Please make sure to take a hand-out from your first grader’s teacher with more information about her classroom. The PowerPoint presentation will be on the website for you to refer to anytime. Thank you for coming tonight!

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