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Welcome to 1st Grade

Join our 1st-grade classroom community focused on fostering independence, teaching responsibility, and delivering standards-based instruction using the AZCCRS. Explore English Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies with engaging activities. Support your student's learning by facilitating responsibility and making school a priority. Read nightly with your child and encourage completion of homework packets.

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Welcome to 1st Grade

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  1. Welcome to 1st Grade Mrs. Arthur RM 310 Mrs. Dew RM 308 Mrs. Lepick RM 311 Mrs. Lingenfelter RM 309

  2. What is First Grade all about? • Forming a classroom community • Fostering independence • Teaching responsibility • Standards Based Instruction using the AZCCRS. (Arizona College & Career Readiness Standards).

  3. AZCCRS • Arizona’s College and Career Readiness Standards are designed to prepare students with the core academic knowledge and skills they need to succeed in post-secondary education and training. • Clear, focused standards that are internationally benchmarked and aligned with college and workforce expectations. • Rigorous strategic grade-level goals that provide coherent progressions from grade to grade, linking major topics of study. • A focus on developing students’ critical thinking, problem solving and real world application of skills through effective instructional strategies. • A foundation for working collaboratively across content disciplines.

  4. English Language Arts Focused on: • Reading • Writing • Speaking & Listening Some of the tools we use: • Pearson Reading Street Curriculum • Thinking Maps • Sight Words • Write From the Beginning • Words Their Way Word Study • DIBELS

  5. What is DIBELS? • The Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) are a set of procedures and measures for assessing the acquisition of early literacy skills from kindergarten through third grade. • Letter Naming • Phoneme Segmentation • Nonsense Words (CVC) • Oral reading fluency • Sight Words

  6. 1st Grade Reading Goal • By the end of the first grade, 100% of students will demonstrate reading oral proficiency as measured by DIBELS 8th Edition Benchmarks: Fall: 21 wpm Winter: 35 wpm Spring: 42 wpm

  7. Word Study: Words their Way A district adopted program that uses word study for phonics, vocabulary, and word patterns. • Individualized word study groups • Daily work on word pattern sorts • Students will bring home word study words in their homework packets. This is to help practice the sounds & patterns each week. Students will be tested on Friday with some seen and some unseen words.

  8. Writing How writing is facilitated: • Write From the Beginning • Journals • Sentence structure (length, complete/incomplete) • Word Wall Use (sight words within writing) • Grammar (punctuation, capitalization) • Weekly Phonic/Sight word sentence test • Written response to literature with evidence to support ideas

  9. 1st Grade Math Goal • By the end of first grade 100% of students will demonstrate proficiency of math standards by scoring proficient or highly proficient on the end of year DVMA benchmark test.

  10. Math: Eureka Math Third Quarter: • Place Value, comparison, addition and subtraction to 40 • Identifying, composing and partitioning shapes Fourth Quarter: • Place Value, comparison, addition and subtraction to 100 • Coins and their values First Quarter: • Sums and differences to 20 . Using mental strategies and counting on • Number bonds Second Quarter: • Place value through addition and subtraction within 20 • Counting on and making ten strategies • Ordering and comparing length measurements as numbers

  11. Science • Explorations will be Inquiry-Based • Students will be exploring the following topics: • Inquiry Process • People and Science • Animals • Plants • Properties of Objects • Motion • Earth Materials • Sky and Weather

  12. Social Studies Students will explore topics in the areas of : • American History • World History • Civics and Government • Geography • Economics

  13. What Else Will We Be Doing This Year?? Specials PE/2x, Music, Art, and Stem Tentative Field Trips Childsplay Theater Phoenix Zoo Butterfly Wonderland Science Center Library

  14. How can you support your student this year? • Facilitate Responsibility - Hold students accountable for their own work. • Make School a Priority- Make sure your child is at school on time and is here until dismissal time. • Return Paperwork promptly • Discuss behavior with students when appropriate –consistency between the classroom and home promotes accountability • Complete your Volunteer Training early • READ NIGHTLY WITH YOUR CHILD

  15. Supplies Needed • Headphones (not earbuds or wireless) • Spiral notebook • Colored folders

  16. Homework • Homework folders are to brought back and forth to school everyday. • Homework packets are due on Friday. • Nightly Math homework • Read each night • Students will be tested each week on reading and writing their weekly sight words.

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