Welcome Parents to First Grade Curriculum Night

1. Welcome Parents to First Grade Curriculum Night

2. Schedule • Calendar • Daily Five • Spelling • Guided Reading/Flex Groups • Lunch 11:30-12:00 • Recess 12:00-12:30 • Writing • PE 1:00-1:20 every day • Music 1:30-1:55 Mondays • Art 1:40-2:25 Wednesdays • Library 2:45-3:15 Fridays • Science/ Social Studies Tuesdays/Thursdays • Math

3. Important Tips to Make Your Child Have a Successful Year… • Keep up to date on what is going on at school through Friday newsletters and the website. • If your child will be absent, please let the school know as soon as possible. • Short absences: I will send make-up work when your child returns to school. • Extended absences: Please arrange to pick up your child’s work at the school office.

4. Language Arts • Flexible Grouping • Monday through Wednesday • Daily Five • Read to Self, Read to Someone, Listen to Reading, Work on Writing, Word Work • Read Level I/ J • Read 227 High Frequency Words • Write opinion, narrative, and informative texts

5. Math • Number Sense: • Count to 120 starting at any number • Understand 10s and 1s • Recognize and use >,<, and = • Data Analysis and Probability • Interpret different types of graphs. • likely and less likely • Geometry • Rectangles, squares, trapezoids, triangles, half-circles, and quarter-circles • Cubes, rectangular prism, cones, cylinder • Algebra • Explore number patterns and missing addends • Measurement • Temperature, linear, volume and time • Computation • Add and subtract within 20 fluently • Fractions • Halves, fourths/quarter

6. Science • Scientific Inquiry • Questioning, investigating, drawing conclusions • Encourage higher level processing and thinking skills • Physics • Properties of matter, balance, magnets, sink and float, forces of matter • Life Science • Living things, functions, adaptions, habitats, food chains, categorizing animals by feature

7. Social Studies • Communities • school rules, economics (needs vs. wants) • Neighborhoods • our city • Our Country • heroes, elections, history • Our World • Geography • maps, map keys, features of land

8. Homework Policy • Your child will bring home homework at the beginning of each week. • We encourage you to work with your child. • Packets are due every Friday or the last day of the week. • Completion grade

9. Classroom Rules Give Me Five • Listen to the teacher. • Keep your hands to yourself. • Say good words. • Walk in the hallways and in class. • Clean up your own messes.

10. Discipline • Incentive Chart • Sticker tokens earned for expected school and social behavior • 10 stickers earns a prize • Behavior Calendar • Daily communication • Reflects the student’s daily behavior choices • How can you help at home? • Be consistent with school-to-home routines • Check folder every day • Up-to-date contact information

11. Home Folder • Please return the home folder each day emptied. • Put any notes for me in the folder. • If you send money, please label it with your child’s name, teacher’s name and what the money is for. • Students are responsible for taking out notes when they return to school • They’ve been doing great with this!

12. Specials • We have PE everyday. • Please make sure your child has a separate pair of shoes that are left at school everyday. • If your child can’t tie his/her own shoes please send them to school with Velcro shoes. • Music • Every Monday • Students perform at Holiday Program • Art • Every Wednesday • Cultural Arts Festival/Art to Remember • Library Day • Every Friday • Students will check out 2-3 books. Return by the following Friday. • Students may not be able to check out if books are not returned.

13. Birthdays • Students’ birthdays will be celebrated in the classroom • Only non-edible treats (i.e. pencils, erasers, small toys) may be sent • All students receive a birthday book from Mrs. DeMarzo

14. Snack • We have snack after PE at 1:25 everyday. • Snack lasts 10 minutes so please make sure food can be eaten during this time. • Fresh fruits, veggies, crackers • No juice boxes, but water bottles are welcomed.

15. Field Trips • We will be taking a few field trips this year. • PTA Donations increased • Brookfield Zoo at the end of the year. • More info to come as other trips are planned

16. Mystery Reader • Please sign up to be a mystery reader. • Choose month • Can be a parent or other family member • Come to school dressed up as a storybook character with your book • Students will guess character and true identity. • Please keep it a secret when you come.

17. Tips for First Graders • Talk to your child: • Ask your child to talk about his/her day at school. Encourage him/her to explain thinking. • Say silly tongue twisters: • Sing songs, read rhyming books, and say tongue twisters. This makes children sensitive to sound and will in turn help them be better writers and readers. • Connect books to experiences: • Making connections helps improve comprehension. • Write it down. • Encourage your child to write down experiences that have happened

18. If you need to reach me… • E-mail is the best: • katherine.brown@cusd200.org • Call • 630-682-2075 • Best time to call: 8:30am to 9:15am or 3:45 to 4:15 • I have an open door policy but please understand the school day is very busy and I may not have time to meet with you. • If you need to meet in person, please schedule in advance.