1. Welcome Rockstar Bunch Parents
While you are waiting, please leave a note to your little Rockstar at their seat!

2. Email: christy.roberts@cobbk12.org
Contact
Information
School Phone:
REMIND text

3. We will work together to teach all students in the class!
Co-Teaching
Classroom
We will work together to teach all students in the class!
Benefits to a collaborative classroom:
Two certified educators in the room!
More individualized instruction for all students!
We plan and stay with the academic pacing of ALL the other 1st grade classes.
1st grade teachers plan together.
Each student is challenged to their own ability.

4. Lisa Hunt: ½ Kindergarten, 1st grade, 5th grade
Sope Creek School Counselors
Communication-Collaboration-Creativity-Critical Thinking
Building Futures Using Growth Mindset
Jennifer Frederick: ½ Kindergarten, 2nd grade, 3rd grade
Lisa Hunt: ½ Kindergarten, 1st grade, 5th grade
Claire Murphy: 4th grade, Special Education

5. School Starts at 7:50. Students can arrive as early as 7:15.
Attendance
School Starts at 7:50. Students can arrive as early as 7:15.
If your child is sick and must miss school, you must write a note including the following information: date, reason for absence, phone number where you can be reached, and signature.

6. Attendance
Continued

7. Dismissal
Dismissal will begin at 2:00 pm each day. Students are never to be picked up from their classrooms without a parent first signing them out at the office. If your child is a car rider, please remain in your car and make sure that your tag is visible in the windshield. You will be asked to park and come inside if you do not have this name tag. Please make sure to always have proper identification.

8. Early
Checkout
If you need to check out your child early, then you need to go to the office and sign him/her out. The office will call down to our room for your child to meet you in the office.
Same applies if you are here for a special event at school and want to check out early. *No checkouts after 1:45.

9. Transportation Important!
Please note that any time your child’s method of transportation changes, we MUST have a note from you. If you forget to send in a note, you will have to come up to the school to tell the office of a change. It is a Cobb County Policy that will ensure your child’s safety. Transportation note changes can be found on the main page of the Sope Creek Website.
Important!
We cannot accept notices of transportation change through or phone. If you forget to write a note, you must contact the front office.

10. Thank you for your understanding!
School Safety
Always enter through the front office to come inside the building!
Never ask a child or teacher to let you in the building even if they know you.
Always wear the yellow name tag or volunteer sticker on your shirt to identify yourself in the building.
Thank you for your understanding!

11. Behavior Soaring Eagles Expectations: High Expectations Time on Task
High Expectations
Time on Task
Safe and Orderly
School
Respect all People
and Property

12. Rockstar Behavior
Star Books
&
Class Coupons
Behavior Cubes

13. Snacks
Each child is responsible for his/her snack each day. Snacks should be taken out of backpacks and placed in baskets until snack time. Please send in 1-2 healthy snacks for your child. Sharing is NOT allowed.

14. Lunch
Please feel free to join us at lunch on any day that you can! The children love this surprise! Our lunch time is 10:38-11:08. You can meet us in the cafeteria after you sign in at the office. If you eat lunch with your child, please say your goodbyes inside the cafeteria before you leave.

15. *Please let me know of any food concerns.
Birthdays
You may bring in a special snack for your child’s birthday. The best time to share would be at lunch time, 10:38-11:08. Please no cakes!
*Please let me know of any food concerns.

16. Medication
Prescription and over-the-counter medication to be taken during the school day must be brought to school by the parent and a medication form filled out in the office. All medication has to remain in its original container and will be administered by the school nurse in the clinic.
Sope Creek Nurse

17. Specials
We will have specials every day from 12:30-1:15. These specials include Music, PE, Art, STEM. Please be sure that your child wears tennis shoes on PE days. A specials rotation calendar will be sent home on the weekly newsletter, so your child can be prepared to wear tennis shoes on the days we have PE.

18. Homework
We encourage you to read with your child every night for 20 minutes. Students are also encouraged to check out school library books to take home.
Homework will be assigned weekly and will be a review of what we are learning in class. Homework will be given out on Friday and due the following Friday. Homework will include spelling, reading, and math.
*Additional work may come home based on students’ need and monthly STEM challenge homework will come home as optional work.

19. Take Home Binders
This binder will be sent home every day with your child. We check binders each morning when your child brings them back from home. It is very important that you check this every day and return it to school the next morning. On Fridays, important letters and graded/ checked papers will be sent home. Behavior sheets and homework can be found in the inserted sleeves. Please be sure to initial your child’s behavior sheet each night.

20. First Grade Curriculum Math Reading Writing Science Social Studies
Addition fluency to 10, addition and subtraction within 20 using multiple strategies, determines if equations are true (6=6, 7=8-1) or false (8=4, 3+2=6), reads and writes numerals AND represents any number of objects with a written numeral up to 120 using tens and ones, problem solving
Retelling fiction and non-fiction, compare and contrast characters, setting, events in stories
Writes narrative, informational, and opinion pieces
Weather, plant parts and needs, animal needs, magnets, sound and light
Historical figures: Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, G.W. Carver, Ruby Bridges,
Continents and oceans, landforms, consumers and producers
Reading
Writing
Science
Social Studies

21. Daily classroom work is not graded, but checked.
Grades will be given for report cards based on assessments after concepts have been taught. There will be multiple classroom opportunities for students to practice concepts in class before an assessment is given.
You will receive your child’s work in their folders on Fridays, so you can check their progress.

22. Report
Cards

23. Field
Trips
First grade loves to go on field trips! We will go on several this year. In the past we have gone to Puppetry Arts and Sibley Pond. We also enjoy many in-school field trips. Information concerning a field trip will be sent home with your child close to the time the field trip would be planned for.
If you choose to pack your child a lunch on the day of a field trip, we ask that you pack it in a consumable bag, so that it can be thrown away before we head back to the school.

24. https://studentprivacy.ed.gov/training/school-volunteers-and-ferpa
Parent Volunteers
All parent volunteers must view the following video and sign a waiver protecting the privacy of students.

25. Parent Volunteer Sub Training
You will be provided with a schedule and plans for the timeframe.
Teacher collaboration times will overlap either specials or lunch time.
You do not need to introduce new material or assign grades.
Primary Responsibilities of Volunteers:
Keep the students safe.
Do not take them outside.
Only release students when called from the front office.
You are a mandated reporter. If you see any signs of abuse, please tell the teacher.
Support if there are disruptive students and call the office if you need help. (Ext. 037)
Emergency folder by the door.
Check for allergies in the classroom.
It is possible to get pulled for another classroom if there isn’t coverage.
Please sign the sheet to say you are trained.

26. Check newsletter for wish list items throughout the year.
Supplies
Trading post supplies needed: Primary composition notebooks and My word journals
Check newsletter for wish list items throughout the year.

27. Boosterthon
2018 Fun Run 8/29 Our school fundraiser starts Monday 8/20! 10% of the money raised by your child goes directly into our classroom!

28. Room Rep: Ashley Siegel
Ashley’s
Volunteering:
We will be utilizing Shutterfly for parents to volunteer!  
Class Donation Form: Due Friday, August 10th
At Sope Creek we collect money at the beginning of the year to cover things like class parties, t-shirts, teacher's birthdays, our class Octoberfest pumpkin, etc... 
There is a standard donation form with suggested amounts for each category but it is up to you what you contribute. The only item that is a fixed cost is the class t-shirt.
Check or

29. Don’t Forget!! Please sign-in! The sign-in sheet is on the back table.
Sign up for REMIND!
Please sign-in!
The sign-in sheet is on the back table.
You can leave your forms on the back table.
Turn in:
Clinic Cards
Receipt of the Family Information Guide
Signature for PVS training
Student privacy form
Signature for Friday treats
*Note to your Rockstar!