1 st & 2 nd Grade Curriculum Night Agenda

1. 1st & 2nd GradeCurriculum Night Agenda • Welcome • Board Presentation, FEED, PTO • Principal’s Message • Social Curriculum • Science/Social Studies Curriculum • Math Curriculum • Literacy Curriculum • Fundations Curriculum • Assessments

2. Save the date: October 21, 20146:30- 7:30 pm The Unified Arts Experience An opportunity to meet the unified arts teachers, visit the classrooms, and learn about each program through hands on activities.

3. SCS FEED Food Education Every Day SCS FEED is a group of parents, faculty and administrators united to • Encourage healthy foodchoices • Drive an awareness of where our food comes from • Promote understanding of how our food choices affect our bodies, the environment and our community * Part of a state program run as a partnership of two VT non-profits: NOFA-VT and Shelburne Farms

4. FEED Initiatives Focus In 3 C’s • Classrooms (e.g., food-focused curriculum activities, guest speakers, field trips) • Cafeteria (e.g., Taste Tests, veggies from SCS Gardens) • Community (e.g., New Village Farm, Shelburne Farms, Wake Robin)

5. SCS Gardens • Planted and maintained by students/teachers during the school year and SCS families (and Part 2 students) during summer! • Veggies are used in the cafeteria for lunch and in taste tests • SCS FEED’s garden coordinator: Amanda Gustafson

6. Interested? Join Us! Sign up with your contact info onthe sheet left with your child’s teacher Like us on Facebook: Search for SCS Feed Direct questions to SCS FEED’s coordinator: Erica Frey-Delaportas 802-489-5976 efreydelaportas@hotmail.com

7. PTO *The PTO has several functions – the most important of which is to help foster a sense of school community. *Be a voice for your team! This year we are asking each team to send at least one parent to our monthly meetings *WHAT DOES PTO DO? • Raise money with fundraisers: • Direct Donation, Gift Wrap Sale, Red Barn goodies, and Jogathon • Grants $$ back to school • Organizes school-community (NON- fundraising) events • Puts together school directory *Gift Wrap –remember that 80% of the profit goes directly back to your team. Please participate at whatever level you are comfortable.

8. Math Fact Fluency John Madden https://docs.google.com/a/cssu.org/document/d/1GZBIjtU02pyqmCoM1wxhugIGo8CV108EEbh-BqyIzF8/edit

9. Pati Beaumont SCS Co-Principal https://docs.google.com/a/cssu.org/presentation/d/1cx4YZlq3g5oMaDmnZ49rKUC9KTyRJ95NeunwNryCmrE/edit#slide=id.g3b3824e53_087

10. Katie TylerGuidance Counselour https://docs.google.com/a/cssu.org/presentation/d/1knQ7OWkMZiXPRm1gyXEYhs7gQBPNi-I76XziGuPWVrI/edit#slide=id.g3b986b43f_059

11. Responsive ClassroomGuiding Principles Social Curriculum How Children Learn Maximize Cognitive Growth Set of Social Skills Understanding and Knowing the Children Families As Partners Adult Impact

12. Classroom PracticesAt the heart of the Responsive Classroom Approach are TEN Classroom Practices • Morning Meeting • Rule Creation • Interactive Modeling • Positive Teacher Language • Logical Consequences • Guided Discovery • Academic Choice • Classroom Organization • Working With Families • Collaborative Problem-Solving

13. Research on Effectiveness Research by the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education has found that schools using Responsive Classroom practices see: • Improved Teacher-Student Interactions • Higher-Quality Teaching • Improved Social Skills in Children • Greater Student Achievement in Math and Reading • More Positive Feelings Toward School Among Children and Teachers Findings are from the Social and Academic Learning Study (2001–2004) or the Responsive Classroom Efficacy Study (2008–2011), or both. For more information, go to www.responsiveclassroom.org/research

14. Science and NGSS • With a strong focus on inquiry, topics include but are not limited to: • Plants/Animals (life cycles/habitats) • Changes in the Earth • Moon and Stars • Force and Motion • States of Matter • STEM

15. Science is interwoven through: • Integration into larger units • Smaller isolated units • District wide on demand science tasks • Observational recording and inquiry built into our Bridges math program • Hands on Nature • Informational text reading/writing embedded into the Common Core • Integrated technology

16. The Social Sciences: • Approached in a similar fashion to Science Units, the social sciences are embedded in larger units or year long studies, as well as smaller units, covering: • Citizenship (Classroom to Global, Digital) • Long Ago and Today • Physical Geography • Cultural Geography • Vertically aligned with future grades to deepen and extend the learning.

17. Math Curriculum • NCTM Standards • Aligned with Common Core Math Standards • Best Practices in Mathematics • Strands • Operations and Algebraic thinking • Number & Operations in Base 10 • Geometry • Measurement & Data • Bridges Math Program: • Uses extensive and careful visual models. • Uses consistent attention to both basic skills and conceptual understanding. • Number Corner

18. BEST PRACTICES IN TEACHING MATHEMATICS • Research proven teaching methods for promoting problem solving, invention, discourse, inquiry, challenge, and achievement by all students. • Teaching practices, and materials that foster: • Student understanding, invention and sense making • A productive classroom culture • Worthwhile mathematical tasks • Deepen teacher content knowledge • Enhances mathematics lessons/tasks to maximize learning

19. Habits of Mind Habits of Interaction

20. Mathematical Practices Across Grade Levels • Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. • Reason abstractly and quantitatively. • Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. • Model with mathematics. • Use appropriate tools strategically. • Attend to precision. • Look for and make use of structure. • Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

21. Bridges Grade 1 Units Covered Unit 1 Numbers All Around Us Unit 2 Developing Strategies with Dice & Dominoes Unit 3 Adding, Subtracting, Counting & Comparing Unit 4 Leapfrogs on the Number Line Unit 5 Geometry Unit 6 Figure the Facts with Penguins Unit 7 One Hundred & Beyond Unit 8 Changes, Changes Critical Areas of Study 1 Developing an understanding of addition, subtraction, and strategies for addition and subtraction within 20 2 Developing an understanding of whole number relationships and place value, including grouping in tens and ones 3 Developing an understanding of linear measurement and measuring lengths as iterating length units 4 Reasoning about attributes of, and composing and decomposing geometric shapes

22. Bridges Grade 2 Units Covered Unit 1 Figure the Facts Unit 2 Place Value & Measurement with Jack’s Beanstalks Unit 3 Addition & Subtraction Within One Hundred Unit 4 Measurement Unit 5 Place Value to One Thousand Unit 6 Geometry Unit 7 Measurement, Fractions & Multi-Digit Computation with Hungry Ants Unit 8 Measurement, Data & Multi-Digit Computation with Marble Rolls Critical Areas of Study 1 Extending understanding of base-ten notation 2 Building fluency with addition and subtraction 3 Using standard units of measure 4 Describing and analyzing shapes

23. Components of a Balanced Reading Program • Read Aloud • Shared Reading • Whole Group Instruction • Small Group Instruction • Word Study • Partner and Independent Reading

24. Writing • First and Second Graders participate in the writing process: • Planning • Writing • Conferencing • Revising/editing • Publishing • Writer’s Workshop • Mini lesson • Writing and conferring • Sharing

25. Writing • Writing Genres • Informational/ explanatory • Opinion • Narrative • Other Types of Writing • Poetry • Letters • Journal Entries • Responses to Text • Conventions • Handwriting • sentence structure • phonetic spelling

26. Fundations: 1st Grade • letter formation • short vowel sounds • blends (st, bl, mp) and • digraphs (sh, ch, th, wh) • spelling rules (f, l, s) • base word and suffix s (mat s) • glued sounds (am, an, ink, ank, ung) • open and closed syllables (me, ten) • magic e (pine, same) • trick words

27. Fundations: 2nd Grade • review 1st grade concepts • base words and more suffixes • vowel teams (oi, oy, ea, ee) • trick words • 6 syllable types • closed syllable • vowel consonant-e • open syllable • r-controlled syllable • double vowel syllable • consonant –le syllable

28. Common Assessments Literacy • BAS (Baseline Assessment System) • Fundations unit tests • On-Demand Writing Math • Bridges assessments • Fact fluency Science • Inquiry based assessment Informal / On-going • Observations • Student conferences • Writing samples • Anecdotal notes • Exit cards

29. Thank you for coming! The End