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Reading Our year at a glance… With a fiction book, I can… Think about what I read and tell why I read different kinds of books. Understand what I read. Tell what the story is about by describing what happened and by including important parts. Tell about the story using pictures and words. Tell who was in the story by naming the characters. Tell how characters are different/ similar. Tell who is talking in the story. Tell where the story happened by describing the setting. Answer all who, what, when, or where questions about the story. Ask at least one question about the story. Tell which books are stories (fiction) and which books tell true things (nonfiction). Listen to/ read prose and poems. Tell how words make me feel. Reading

Reading Our year at a glance… Listen to/ read true texts. With a Nonfiction book, I can… Listen to/ read true texts. Ask and answer questions about key details in a text. Tell what the text is about and what I learned. Tell how two people, two events, two ideas, OR two facts are alike/ connected. Ask and answer questions about words I don’t know, Use parts of a book to find information. Use the pictures and words to help me understand what is read, to help me understand ideas, and to help me tell about the text. Tell what the author wants me to know and how the words the author used helped me understand. Compare texts and say why they are the same/ different. Reading

Reading Our year at a glance… Say the sounds in words and blend sounds to make words. Hear and say the beginning, middle, and end sound of a word. Break words into parts. Use vowels to sound out syllables. Hear and say long/ short vowels. Say words that end with silent e. Read words with endings. Read first grade sight words. Find the beginning and the end of a sentence. Write all my upper/lower-case letters. Use nouns, verbs, adjectives, synonyms, connecting words, and prepositional words in my speaking and writing. Reading

Reading Our year at a glance… Match nouns with action words. Use: a, an, & the. Combine sentences. Capitalize dates and names. Use end punctuation for sentences. Use commas in dates and lists. Spell sight words and word family words. Use Invented spelling. Find root words and endings. Use word clues to figure out what a word means. Put words in groups that are the same, Tell what words mean and add details. Make connections between words. Show words that mean moving and how they are moving. Put two little sentences together in one sentence. Reading

PAIDEIA >> At least once a month, our students will participate in a seminar that will push them to answer higher level thinking questions and will exercise their conversational skills through the use of complex texts.   >> Focus: equity and rigor >> Methods support: 21st century skills conversational skills critical thinking skills Reading

Let’s Take a Closer Look… There is a big leap from kindergarten to 1st grade! Level G Book: Miles the Nile Crocodile Level J Book: The Princess and the Pea comprehension questions Written responses BOY MOY EOY D G/H J/K

Sight Words Our year at a glance… 1 2 3 4 5 new me good before follow sound back sentence line came take give man right want only most think too show little very say mean also work after great old around know thing where any form place our help same three year just through tell small live name much boy set Sight Words 6 7 8 9 10 put because different off mother end turn home play answer does here us spell found another why move air study well ask try away still large went kind animal learn must men hand house should big read picture point America even need again page world such land change letter high

Sight Word Activities: build words with playdoh, pipe cleaners, letter beads+pipe cleaners, glue+glitter… trace words in a tray of sand, shaving cream, bathtub crayons, white boards… Side walk chalk popsicle sticks Sticky notes SW Hunt

WRITING Our year at a glance… I can… Write about what I think and tell why I think that. Write about a real topic including some facts. Find facts. Write about things I learn. Write about the order of things that happened in a book I read or heard. Use words that show order. Use suggestions to add details to make my writing better. Use technology to help to write a story. Use technology to share my writing. Investigate thinks I am interested in, with others. Write a book with my classmates. Find answers to my questions in many different ways. Answer questions in my writing. WRITING

Let’s Take a Closer Look… >>Now that the students are able to put their thoughts onto paper, we are working on “juicing-up” our writing! >>Our goal is to move away from simple “one- liners” to multi-sentence responses by: Adding details/ adjectives. Including in depth thought. Editing Punctuation.

MATH Our year at a glance… Problem solving Addition & Subtraction facts to 20 Counting & writing to 120 Place Value (tens & ones) Measurement Tell & write time to hour and half hour Represent & interpret data Identify & compose 2D/3D shapes Fractions (halves & fourths) MATH

Let’s Take a Closer Look… >>Envisions Workbook >>Strategies & Manipulatives 10 frame Number line Pop cubes Counters Part-part-whole Mats

Social Studies Our year at a glance… >> History Change in neighborhoods over time Change in communities over time >> Geography Location Landforms water forms >> Environment Natural resources Human interaction with the environment >> Economics Goods & services supply & demand >> Civics Rules Citizenship authority figures >> Culture Holidays, traditions & celebrations folklores Social Studies

Science Our year at a glance… Forces and motion Features & patterns of the earth, moon and sun Properties of earth materials Living things and their environment (plants, animals, humans) Science

TESTS >>TRC: “Text Reading Comprehension” 3 times a year One on one assessment determines a reader’s instructional reading level. measures a student’s ability to orally retell and answer questions about a text. >>MAP- “Measures of Academic Progress” Reading assessment Math assessment Determines what a child is ready to learn at that point in time. TESTS

Report cards >>grading scale: Developing Progressing Mastering exemplary mastery >>Scored based off of “I can…” statements >>Their grades reflect where they are in relation to the end of the year expectation. Report cards

Homework >> Read: 20 minutes every night (Monday through Friday) >> Reading Passage: one reading passage + Writing response questions (One passage will be sent home every Thursday and students must turn it in on Tuesday) Homework

>>Students can earn positive points as well as negative points throughout the week. >>https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=vgZOhrytzwQ&t=5s DoJO

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