1. Welcome to Curriculum Night

2. Meet the Teacher

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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.

13. 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

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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. >>Students can earn positive points as well as negative points throughout the week.
>> watch?v=vgZOhrytzwQ&t=5s
DoJO

21. Thank you for coming!