Welcome to Ms. Kovac’s 1st Grade Class! Overview : Reminders In Your Envelope… 1st Grade Curriculum Standard Based Report Cards Partners in Learning Helpful Websites

Reminders Start Time: 8:35 Late Bell: 8:45 Buying Lunch - Send money in a marked envelope with name and 1K or add money through online account (Parent Portal) Snack – Snacks should be in a separate bag from their lunch. 6 Day Schedule 1K Food Allergies: peanuts, tree nuts, peas, sesame Remind 101

In Your Envelope… Class List – for birthday invitations, valentines Reading Level Chart Traffic Light Letter – behavior management/communication log Scholastic catalog for September Responsive Classroom/Morning Meeting “Deer Parints” Letter Sight Words (Dolch) Handwriting Without Tears Eureka Math Parent Roadmap Front Row & Zearn login information 100 Book Reading Incentive

Readers’ Workshop You will see: Children reading books on their Independent Level Students being assessed and reassessed throughout the year (Columbia Teachers College assessment) Children conferencing with teachers, talking with each other about their reading, and writing about their reading Students building their reading stamina Exposure to on-level and higher-level texts *Homework *Reading Buddies with 5P *100 Books Reading Incentive

Writers’ Workshop You will see students: Building writing stamina Establishing a working relationship with a writing partner Studying authors and emulating similar writing techniques Identifying and implementing traits of realistic fiction and nonfiction writing Pieces of Writing: Narrative Opinion Informational

Word Study Students working at their independent developmental level Sight Words Applying sounds/patterns to their writing Using word patterns to help decode when reading

Eureka Math/Engage NY “Eureka was built around the core principle that students need to know more than just what works when solving a problem—they need to understand why it works. The curriculum goes beyond facts and formulas, teaching students to think about math conceptually. This helps students become not merely literate, but fluent in mathematics.” -Greatminds.org Parent Night 9/29 @ 6:30

Math Goals Required Fluency for Grade 1: Add/Subtract within 10 Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction. Understand and apply properties of operations and the relationship between addition and subtraction. Add and subtract within 20. Work with addition and subtraction equations. Extending the counting sequence. Understand place value. Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract. Measure lengths indirectly and by iterating length unit Represent and interpret data. Tell and write time. Reason with shapes and their attributes Required Fluency for Grade 1: Add/Subtract within 10

Science & Social Studies Weather Living Creatures Plants Life Cycles Social Studies Establishing a Community Customs & Holidays Our National Heritage African American History Economics Geography

Standards Based Report Cards What are they? Research based Provides specific feedback to students, parents, and teacher about student progress Disentangles learning behaviors and effort from progress toward academic goals Promotes consistency in grading within a grade level and between grade levels Helps focus instruction and assessment Parent Night – October 20th How will they be different? We will have four marking periods with mid-marking period reports being only issued to students whose progress is of concern No overall subject grades Grade is not an average of performance Proficiency on specific objectives will be identified Effort and behavior will be assessed separately Teachers will use rubrics to identify levels of proficiency for each standard

Partners in Learning How to reinforce skills at home: Read to and with your child – this is one of the best things you can do to help your child become the strongest reader they can be! Talk to your child about their daily events, special things that have happened and other topics of interest. This helps to prepare your child for telling and writing stories about their lives. Additional activities for math, reading and sight word practice are located on my website Front Row Zearn

In Closing… Thank you for coming! http://www.chesterfieldschool.com/Domain/44 http://www.oakdale.k12.ca.us/cms/page_view?d=x&piid=&vpid=1401956479009 http://www.lpssonline.com/site5514.php Please feel free to look around the room, write your child a letter, or ask any questions at this time. Thank you for coming!