Back to School Night Presentation

2. Can you guess the 1st grader?
Greer Hanlon

3. Can you guess the 1st grader?
Vincent Pelino

4. Can you guess the 1st grader?
Kelly Armstrong

5. Can you guess the 1st grader?
Marcelle Danz

6. Can you guess the 1st grader?
Elliott Girouard

7. Can you guess the 1st grader?
Carley Burns

8. Can you guess the 1st grader?
Taylor Williams

9. Can you guess the 1st grader?
Jack Wade

10. Can you guess the 1st grader?
Angelo Greco

11. Can you guess the 1st grader?
Brecken Maras

12. Can you guess the 1st grader?
Siena Prevost

13. Can you guess the 1st grader?
Bennett Peterson

14. Can you guess the 1st grader?
Harper Miller

15. Can you guess the 1st grader?
Rana Sabri

16. Can you guess the 1st grader?
Luke Moga

17. Can you guess the 1st grader?
Ava Briese

21. A Day Year in the Life of a
First Grader...
Schedule
Classroom Community
Curriculum
Supporting your 1st Grader
(More Info in the folder)

22. Classroom Community
• Morning Meeting and
Afternoon Meeting
• Positive learning community:
Take risks, Mistakes are OK
• Children are involved in
setting expectations,
self-monitoring behavior,
and problem solving.
• Everyone contributes and
has responsibilities.

23. Mindfulness + Mindset

24. First step
in
learning.
Play is still
a BIG part
of Grade
1.
Collaborate
Create/Innovat
e
Take Risks
Problem Solve

26. • 3 teachers support literacy
• Individualized and based on
on-going assessments
• Work on skills and strategies in
isolation and within books.

27. Reading + Word Work
Comprehension
Fluency and
Expression
Whole Word Recognition
Phonics
Phonemic Awareness
Comprehension
Fluency and Expression
Whole Word
Phonics
Phonemic
Awareness

28. Reading...
it’s more that just the words!
• Schema/Background Knowledge
• Questioning
• Inferring
• Visualizing
• Vocabulary

29. What can you do to support
Reading?
• Take-Home Book Bags
• Encourage reading strategies
• Share your own “reading life”
• Celebrate a variety of interests in reading
• More info in section of packet.

30. Writer’s Workshop
• Familiar Structure:
-Mini-Lesson
-Independent Writing
-Conferring/Small Group
-Share
• Writing Partners

31. Units of Study
Narrative • Small Moments
• Realistic Fiction
Opinion • Writing Reviews
Informational
Non-Fiction
• How-To Books
• All About Books
Other • Songs from the Heart:
Music and Poetry

32. Publishing and Celebrating
• At the end of each unit
• Preserves the child’s own writing
• Celebrates our growth
as writers

33. We work on other writing skills, too!
• Handwriting
• Spelling
• Capitalization & Punctuation
• Grammar (nouns, verbs...)

34. What Can You do to Support Writing?
• Admire what your child brings home
(Take interest in the CONTENT of their writing.)
• Make your child feel like a famous author!
• Acknowledge and encourage risk taking
• Tell Stories
• More info on writing on page.

36. Foundational Ideas of Singapore Mathematics:
 Focuses on “thinking” vs. “merely doing.”
Students learn to persevere in problem solving.
 Encourages flexible thinking and perspective taking.
 Learning progresses from:

37. First Grade Math Topics:
Numbers and Operations
(Addition and Subtraction to 100)
Mental Math Strategies
Money, Calendar, and Telling Time
Geometry: 2-D and 3-D Shapes
Picture Graphs and Bar Graphs
Measurement: Length and Weight
Getting Ready for Multiplication and Division

38. What Can You do to Support Math?
• Help to instill positive attitudes about math!
• Make math a part of your lives: play games, build, cook...
• Students should be able to do homework INDEPENDENTLY.
• Practice Math Facts (we’ll be providing more guidance on this).
• Try Problem of the Week!
• Attend Math Night on October 18th!
• More details on the page in your packet.

39. 1st Grade Science is all about the
Earth!
• Practice being a scientist and following scientific process
• Recording in a science journal
• Most field trips support science
Units of Study:
Rocks
Oceans and Islands
Dinosaurs and Fossils

40. SOCIAL STUDIES
• Community Building
• Change Makers
• Maps and Globes
• C.A.R.E
• Holiday and Birthday
Traditions (pink paper)

41. Sneak Peek at Homework
HOMEWORK
• Start in Oct.
• T/W/Th
• Primarily Literacy
and Math
Book Bags+Logs
• All days of week
• Please initial each
day
• Feel free to write
comments or
notes.
• Initial each day.
• Look for teacher
feedback here.
• Main goal of
homework:
RESPONSIBILITY

42. Keep Connected to Room 26!
@Breck1B
breckschool1b.blogspot.com

44. Any Questions?