WELCOME TO FIRST GRADE CURRICULUM NIGHT!

1. WELCOME TOFIRST GRADE CURRICULUM NIGHT! Monday, August 8, 2016 Jann Johnson, Valerie Nikolaus, Lori-Jo Peters, Alicia Tunstall

2. Procedures • Drop Off and Pick Up • Emails (change in pick up plans no later than 12:00) • Students being checked out early • Things being dropped off in the office • Parent Portal/Infinite Campus • Conferences (August 31st & September 1st and February 15th & 16th)

3. Volunteers • All adults welcome (parents/grandparents/aunts/uncles) • Check/Sign in • Please no drop-ins • Training • Privacy Policy • No younger siblings…thanks for understanding 

4. Field Trips Tax Credit • All field trips are dependent upon tax credit donations • All donations are made online through Infinite Campus Parent Portal • Extended family or friends may still make tax credit donations using the web address: https://chandlerdonations.org/ • Harkins Theater • Tempe Center for the Arts • Pizza Farm • Phoenix Zoo

5. Birthdays • No sugary treats allowed • Healthy treats OK  • Frozen Go-Gurts • Sugar free/fruit popsicles • Granola Bars • Non-food items are encouraged • Bouncy balls • Pencils • Bubbles • Play-doh

6. Grading/Report Cards • Grading • Assessments • Formal/Informal • Assignments • Teacher Observable • Participation grades for Social Studies/Science • Report Cards • Percentage Grades • Cumulative Score per subject • Quarterly Grades • Grades not cumulative • Check Infinite Campus for assessment/assignment description • Behavior/Participation Indicators • E = Excellent • S = Satisfactory • I = Improving • N = Needs Improvement

7. Homework • Expectations • Weekly Spelling List • Sent home Mondays – Due Fridays • Nightly Reading Bags • Initial Reading Log Nightly • Math homework will start after Labor Day.

8. Classroom Behavior and Management • Positive reinforcement is our approach to promote respectful behavior inside and outside the classroom. • Individual Behavior Charts • Each student will receive a daily self-assessment sheet at the beginning of the week, called their Jacobson Jets Chart. Their behavior will be recorded on this sheet and go home each night and must be brought back the next day with parents’ initials! • Help make the connection between school and home and talk about your child’s behavior that particular day with them.

9. JETS Choices • Check and initial your child’s chart daily •  Stamp or Sticker = Soaring day!!! • J = Loss of recess • E = Loss of Fun Friday • T = Office Referral • S = Communique (3 communiques = after school detention)

10. Blue Communication Folder • JETS Charts • Completed work comes home nightly. • Check completed work and REMOVE from the folder. • Celebrate/reflect upon complete (or incomplete) work.

11. Language Arts • Reading: Informational and Literature, Foundations - Key Ideas & Details - Craft & Structure - Integration of Knowledge & Ideas - Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity - Print Concepts, Phonological Awareness, Phonics & Word Recognition, Fluency • Writing • Speaking and Listening - Comprehension & Collaboration, Presentation of Knowledge & Ideas • Language(grammar) - Conventions, Vocabulary Acquisition & Use

12. Reading • 90 minute Literacy Block • 30 minutes of whole-group on grade level instruction • 60 minutes of guided reading groups • Ability level (assessments/running record) • Reading strategies • Comprehension • Vocabulary • Language/grammar skills • Phonics • Fluency

13. Writing • Daily Writing - “Learn to love” writing - Inventive spelling (developmentally appropriate) - Using a “Writers Eye” (conventions) - Modeled writing/read alouds • Types of Writing - Journal Writing - Personal Narratives - Friendly Letters - Imaginative Stories - Informative Writing (reports, how to books) - Functional Writing (list, posters, recipes, diagrams)

14. Math Domains • Numerical Operations in Base Ten • Using two digit numbers (ten more, ten less) • Comparing two digit numbers • Counting and writing numbers to 120 • Using and constructing a number line • Understanding ones and tens (place value) • Measurement and Data • Measure, order and compare three objects by length • Interpret and organize data with up to three categories • Formulate and answer questions

15. Math Domains • Operations and Algebraic Thinking • Use addition and subtraction to solve word problems • Understand true and false equations • Add and subtract numbers within twenty • Understand the associative, commutative and identity properties • Math fluency within twenty (math facts) • Determine unknown whole numbers in addition or subtraction equations (8 +_ =11) • Adding three numbers • Geometry • Identify shapes by defining attributes • Compose/decompose two dimensional shapes

16. Social Studies • American History • World History • Economics • Civics/Government • Geography

17. Social Studies Projects and Activities • Family Tree • Famous American/ Hero Timelines • American Symbols • State Symbols

18. Science • Inquiry Process • Science Content: life science, physical science, earth and space science • Health Content: health promotion, human body, environmental health • Space • Living/nonliving things • Life cycles • Matter (solid, liquid, and gas) • Animal and Plant Relationships • Habitats • Rocks • Inventions/ Inventors • Scientific Method/ experiments

19. Science Projects and Activities • Inventor Reports • Animals/Habitats • Written & Oral Research Reports • Rotations (Team Teaching) • Human Body Systems • Habitats

20. Thank You! • Thank you so much for attending tonight! • If you have questions, please fill out the question/comment paper and return it to your child’s teacher.