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Contact Information
Stephanie Fogarty

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Welcome to First Grade!

3. Reader’s Workshop Read Aloud Independent Reading Partner Reading
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Reader’s Workshop
Read Aloud
Independent Reading
Partner Reading
Guided Reading/ Strategy Groups
Response to Reading
Word Work
Shared Reading
Listen to Reading

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Independent Reading
During Independent Reading, each child reads “just right” books from his or her own book box.

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Read Aloud
Through listening to and discussing stories, students develop comprehension skills and higher level thinking skills.

6. Guided Reading/ Strategy Groups
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Provides small group, direct instruction of reading strategies in carefully selected texts.
Provides guided practice in applying reading strategies.

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Spelling
We use the developmentally driven Words Their Way instructional approach.
This approach provides a practical way to study words and spelling patterns.
Based on developmental spelling level, students study words and then take a test to see if they have mastered a particular spelling pattern.
Students will not have spelling words to study at home.

8. LUNCH!! We have recess and lunch from 10:55 – 11:35.
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LUNCH!!
We have recess and lunch from 10:55 – 11:35.
You are welcome to have lunch with your child any day.

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Writer’s Workshop
Throughout the year, the children learn the craft of writing by creating personal narratives as well as expository pieces based on topic research.

10. Specialist Classes: Spanish 90 min./week Library 30 min./week
PE everyday 30 min.
Music 1 hour/week
Art 1 hour/week

11. Math Math in Focus: The Singapore Approach is a math curriculum from
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Math
Math in Focus: The Singapore
Approach is a math curriculum from
Singapore adapted for U.S. classrooms
based on updated math standards.
This year, your first grader will focus on:
Building problem-solving skills and
strategies
Counting, comparing, and writing
numbers to 100
Adding and subtracting 1-digit and
2-digit numbers
Classifying and sorting shapes and
patterns
Measuring length and weight
Using calendars, time and money

12. Sample Workbook Pages

13. Number Bonds Lesson

14. Number Bonds Lesson

15. Number Bonds Homework

16. Social Studies In our social studies units, we explore:
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Social Studies In our social studies units, we explore:
Strategies for resolving conflicts
Community, citizenship, rules and laws
Geography: city, state, country
Economic literacy: goods, services, wants and needs
History: comparing past, present and future

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Science Units
FOSS - Full Option Science System (Univ. of CA at Berkley)
This science curriculum actively engages students in asking questions, exploring ideas, gathering data, and drawing conclusions.

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Solids and Liquids
Air and Weather
Plants and Insects

19. Homework
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A book bag with “just right” books will come home daily and must be returned to school each day.
Read with your child for minutes 4 evenings per week and fill out the reading log that is in your child’s book bag.
Math homework will be sent home on Mondays and Wednesdays.

20. Classroom Expectations for Behavior
The CLAYMO Promise
I will take good care of myself,
all the people around me,
and all the things around me.
Care
Lots
About
Yourself and
Many
Others

21. Classroom Expectations for Behavior
Love and Logic Philosophy
I will treat you with respect, so you will know how to treat me.
Feel free to do anything that doesn’t cause a problem for anyone else.
If you cause a problem, I will ask you to solve it.
If you can’t solve the problem, or choose not to, I will do something.
What I do, will depend on the special person, and the special situation.
If you feel something is unfair, whisper to me, “I’m not sure that’s fair,” and we will talk.

22. Classroom Expectations for Behavior Behavior Intervention Support Team (B.I.S.T.)
For those students who are having a problem that they need help resolving, I will ask the student to move to the “safe seat” until I have time to help them solve their problem.
If a student is unable to sit quietly in the safe seat, I will ask the student to move to the “buddy room” (a second grade classroom). Usually this change in environment helps a child to get refocused.
I will talk to the student as soon as I can to discuss how he/she plans to address his/her problem. Sometimes a “Think Sheet” is used as a tool to help the child process the problem and solution.
If the student is able to take responsibility for the behavior and comes up with a solution to the problem, he/she is invited to come back to the classroom to try the “safe seat” again before returning to his/her spot at the table or on the rug.

23. Goals for My Life
I can be angry, upset, or overwhelmed by my feelings and not get in trouble. I can be okay even if others are not okay. I can do something even if I don’t want to (even if it’s difficult)

24. First Grade Web Page

25. To keep your child energized and hydrated. . .
Put a water bottle and a nutritious, nut-free snack in your child’s backpack everyday.

26. Birthday Celebrations
Mrs. Scott acknowledges birthdays during morning announcements.
Please keep birthday treats for your celebration at home.

27. No Nuts, Please!
* No peanuts or tree nuts or products containing peanuts or tree nuts may be brought into classrooms for any purpose, such as snacks, classroom parties, birthdays, etc.
* No peanuts or tree nuts or products containing peanuts or tree nuts will be served in the school cafeterias.
Students may not have nuts in their lunches or classrooms. The restrictions apply, but are not limited, to:
* Lunches
* Snacks, including snacks for events such as classroom parties, etc.
* Any other items brought into the school by students, parents, patrons, vendors or others.

28. Ms. Fogarty’s Class Schedule
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Ms. Fogarty’s Class Schedule
8:30 Bell rings and Line up
8:40-8:50 Check in
8:50-10:10 Reader’s Workshop
10:10-10:55 Writer’s Workshop
10:55-11:35 Recess and Lunch
11:35-12:25 Reader’s Workshop
Library every A-day
12:25-1:25 Specials
1:25-2:25 Math
2:25-3:25-Science/Social Studies/ART on every E-day
3:25-3:30-Closing and Dismissal
Specialist Classes
A-Days-Music/PE
B-Days-PE/Spanish
C-Days-Music/PE
D-Days- Spanish/PE
E-Days-Spanish/PE