Welcome First Grade families to Curriculum Night!

1. Welcome First Grade families to Curriculum Night! Thank you for joining us!

2. First Grade Teachers Ms. Becker Ms. Blackwell Mrs. Casas Ms. Patriarca Mrs. Person Mrs. Vreeland Mrs. Walke & Ms. Robin

3. Reader’s Workshop - Dilworth uses the Common Core Standards as a guide to our Literacy components - Use a Balanced Literacy approach with a Reader’s Workshop - Team Planning - Differentiation Reading Workshop consists of: -Phonics/phonemic awareness -Fluency -Comprehension -Writing and reader response journals -Flexible grouping

4. Writing Workshop - Dilworth will be using Lucy Caulkin’s model this year. Focus on being able to: - Generate ideas - Add details - Write different types of texts (narrative, persuasive, informational, how-to, all-about) Daily Writing Practice (DWP)

5. Lunch & Recess - Check your child’s home room class for specific lunch times. - Students begin lunch with 10 minutes of quiet time in order to focus on eating their food. - Bring lunch or buying? - Parents are welcome to join for lunch; however this year they will need to sit at the “Visitors” table with their child, due to lack of extra room at the class tables. - Just a reminder that students are not to share food at lunch. - Check with your home room teacher about allergies. - Recess: at least 30 minutes each day - proper shoes required

6. Math - Dilworth uses Math Investigations and Kathy Richardson as the main curriculum guides for teaching math. - They both align with the common core standards - Math Workshop - Differentiation - Counting and number awareness - Addition and subtraction - Measuring and graphing - Geometry - Homework supports skills that are being practiced and learned in the classroom - Hands-on activities, word problems, computer games, iPad apps, teacher led differentiated groups

7. Social Studies & Science Social Studies: History Geography Economics Culture Civics and Government Intertwined in other core content areas Science: Force and motion Properties of objects Earth systems Functions of living things Intertwined in other core content areas

8. Homework - Math - weekly packet, due each Friday - Sunshine math (optional) - last page of the math packet - Reading Record - 30 minutes - Additional websites - Current Events

9. Green Take Home Folder - Goes home nightly and is our main form of communication - Front clear pocket holds their behavior calendar - Back clear pocket contains their daily reading record - “Return to school” is for homework and forms that we need returned - “Keep at home” is for completed work and other communication that may stay at home - Each Wednesday all PTA and other school communication will come home in this same daily folder

10. Behavior Management - Green, yellow, and red behavior cards and clips - Each classroom has a separate incentive that ties into our school “On Fire Behavior” (marbles, drops, blue tickets) - Dragon Dollars are awarded for “on fire” behavior - Everyone starts each day on green. - At the end of the day, your child will use a crayon to color their behavior calendar, indicating their behavior for the day. - The teacher will write if they received clips, yellow, or red. - Please sign nightly and review with your child

11. Field Trips Possible Fall Field Trip Winter Field Trip - February 10th, Children’s Theater - PTA will cover the cost of all field trips this year. - Permission slips will be sent home approximately 2 weeks prior to each trip. - Chaperones will be requested as needed. All chaperones must be registered volunteers with CMS.

12. Transportation - Please email or send a note with changes in transportation. - If you email changes, please copy Mrs. Lorenzo on the email. - Changes to transportation may not be made after 2:15.

13. Contact - We can all be reached through email. - You can access each teacher's website on the Dilworth Faculty & Staff website.

14. Room Parents - CMS/Volunteer/sign-up - Holiday parties - Etc.