1. Welcome To Curriculum Night!

2. Specials
Music
Media PE
Guidance/Computer
Art

3. Field Trips (possible)
Children’s Museum
Children’s Theatre
Allison Woods Outdoor
Learning Center
New option!! You may pay for your child’s field trip online! Check out Clemmons home website for the link.

4. Homework Monday-Thursday nights
1. Spelling/Word Wall-Choose your own Word Wall activity to learn your Word Wall words by looking in the BEAR folder. Write on the behavior sheet what your child choses to do to learn their words that night.
2. Math- Students will be given a different math skill or problem to work on each night.
3. Take home reading-Fifteen minutes minimum. Have your child read out loud to you. This may be Raz-Kids or a book from home. I may assign a book to some children to guide their growth.

5. Classroom Discipline Plan
Our Rules:
Attend school each day.
Be respectful to yourself and others.
Be obedient to adult school friends.
Do your best work.
Take care of your school and property.

6. Clemmons Pride
P reparation R espect I ntegrity D etermination E xcellence

7. Common Core State Standards Initiative
An effort designed to improve educational outcomes for students by developing a set of common academic standards in mathematics and language arts.
Shows a clear progression of learning from kindergarten to twelfth grade.
Assures parents their children have access to the same high quality education other students receive in other parts of the country.
Goal: provide a more rigorous curriculum and a deeper understanding of content
or (Click departments, subject, grade).

8. Imagine It! Letter/Book/Print awareness Phonemic awareness Phonics
This is our comprehensive reading and writing instruction program.
Instructional emphasis is in the areas of:
Letter/Book/Print awareness
Phonemic awareness
Phonics
Fluency
Vocabulary and Comprehension
Inquiry
Language Arts, Writing, Grammar, and Spelling
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9. Reading and Responding Comprehension Strategies:
Asking questions
Answering questions
Making connections
Visualizing
Clarifying
Predicting
Summarizing
Comprehension Skills:
Making inferences
Sequence
Compare and Contrast
Drawing Conclusions
Reality and Fantasy
Cause and Effect
Classify and Categorize
Main Ideas and Details

10. Writing: Emphasis is on Process Writing
Procedure:
Prewriting
Drafting
Revising/Editing
Publishing
Command of basic writing skills will be assessed in the areas of handwriting, spelling, sentence construction, and grammar.

11. Writing: Emphasis is on Process Writing
Imagine It will utilize the inquiry approach to further develop ideas for writing
The forms of writing we will be exploring are:
Narrative
Informative
Opinion

12. Math Standards Makes sense and perseveres in solving problems
Reasons abstractly and quantitatively
Constructs viable arguments and critiques the reasoning of others
Models with mathematics
Uses appropriate tools strategically
Attends to precision
Looks for and makes use of structure
Looks for and expresses regularity in repeated reasoning

13. Grade One Overview Number and Operations in Base Ten
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
-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.
Number and Operations in Base Ten
-Extend the counting sequence.
-Understand place value.
-Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract.
Measurement and Data
-Measure lengths indirectly and by iterating length units.
-Tell and write time.
-Represent and interpret data.
Geometry
-Reason with shapes and their attributes.

14. Science- First Quarter
Forces and Motion: Understand how forces (pushes or pulls) affect the motion of an object.
Science- Second Quarter
Earth Systems: Understand the physical properties of Earth materials that make them useful in different ways.

15. Science- Third Quarter
Earth In the Universe: Recognize the features and patterns of the Earth/Moon/Sun system as observed from Earth.
Science- Fourth Quarter
Ecosystems: Understand characteristics of various environments and behaviors of humans that enable plants and animals to survive.
Molecular Biology: Summarize the needs of living organisms for energy and growth.

16. Social Studies- First Quarter
Understand that history tells a story of how people and events changed society over time.
Understand the importance of rules.
Social Studies- Second Quarter
Use geographic representations, terms, and technologies to process information from a spatial perspective.
Understand how humans and the environment interact within the local community.

17. Social Studies- Third Quarter
Understand the diversity of people in the local community.
Social Studies- Third Quarter
Understand basic economic concepts.

18. Assessments Reading Formal one-on-one reading of text and retell
DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills) Fluent reading of sounds is assessed one-on-one and is timed
Teacher observation

19. Assessments Spelling Writing Word Wall words
Invented spelling with correct beginning and ending sounds, later middle sounds
Writing
Composes several sentences related to topic
Capital letters (beginning of sentence and names)
Spacing
Word Wall words spelled correctly
Uses temporary spelling that can generally be read by others
Consistently uses punctuation at the end

20. Assessments Social Studies/Science Daily observation of participation
Math: Written and Performance based
Daily observation
One on one performance/small group tasks
Social Studies/Science
Daily observation of participation
Teacher created and summative assessment

21. Testing and Grading The reading grade comes from:
Formal reading assessments, one-on-one
Teacher observation
Dibels assessments
Spelling grade comes from:
Word Wall words
Invented spelling with correct beginning and ending sounds, later middle sounds
Six Star Writing:
Composes several sentences related to the topic
Capital letters for names and at the beginning of a sentence
Spacing
Writes Word Wall words correctly
Uses temporary spelling that can generally be read by others
Consistently uses end punctuation

22. DIBELS and TRC BOY MOY EOY