Purefoy Paradise First Grade Curriculum Night

1. Purefoy Paradise First Grade Curriculum Night

2. LanguageArts Shared Reading • Concepts of print • High frequency words • Punctuation • Oral expression • Letter-sound links and basic story structure • Beginning Comprehension Strategies

3. LanguageArts Comprehension Strategies • Connections to Text • Predicting • Fix-up strategies • Narrative text structure • Asking questions • Inferring • Creating sensory images • Determining the importance of text

4. Guided Reading • Flexible grouping based on strengths • Book levels • Decoding text • Fluency • Fluency/Comprehension Strategies using a variety of text • Guided reading books will be sent home every night. • Often, the same book is sent home for multiple nights, as students are working on improving a specific skill such as fluency. • The cost for a lost guided reading book is $10.

5. LanguageArts Handwriting • D’Nealian Writing • Independent Writing (Pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing) • Connections between reading and writing • Stages of writing • Six Trait Writing

6. Spelling • The goal of spelling instruction is to develop independence, fluency, and accuracy in writing. • Students in 1st grade do not begin taking formal spelling tests until the 2nd nine weeks. • Regular spelling lists vs. challenge spelling lists will be based on Pre-test on Mondays. • Spelling strategies using at least two word families per week along with sight words.

7. Math • Manipulative based • Place Value • Fractions • Geometry • Time • Double Digits • Skip Counting • Story Problems • Measurement • Money • Building Vocabulary

8. Science • Science Journals • Weather (daily) • Rocks and soils • Oceans (Dallas Aquarium) • Plants (cycle and parts of a bean plant) • Life Cycle (butterfly) • Living/Nonliving Organisms • Building Vocabulary • Magnets • Day and Night • Light and Sound Energy

9. SocialStudies • Community Citizenship Skills • State symbols • Holidays, Goods and Services • Maps/Landforms • Cardinal Directions • Citizenship • Cultures/Beliefs/Customs/Folktales • Historical figures • Economics (needs and wants) • Building Vocabulary • Voting • Jobs • Government • U.S.

10. Homework Homework is an integral part of the learning process to support, enrich, or reinforce topics covered in class. • PARTNERSHIP-parents and teachers working together • READING-nightly reading of guided reading book and completing a response in guided reading journal • SPELLING-Optional brief spelling activities to practice the spelling chunks of the week available on website

11. Grading • Academic checklists will reflect a child’s academic performance and mastery of the TEKS. • Academic Checklist Dates: • Oct. 28, Jan. 20, Mar. 31, Jun. 3

12. AttendancePolicy • Regular school attendance is essential for students to make the most of their education. • Students must be present for 90% of the school year. All absences and tardies, both excused and unexcused, count against the 90% attendance rule. • When students are sick or out, a written note is required. The absence will be unexcused if a parent/guardian fails to provide a note within 3 days of the absence. • Calling to let us know that a student will be absent is great, but all absences must be followed up with a note. • Students may be retained based on attendance records.

13. Tardies • The tardy bell rings and the security door is shut at 8:00 am. • Students arriving after 8:00 must get a tardy slip from the front office. • If a student is tardy 10 or more times in a 9 month period a “failure to attend school” action will be filed with a judge.

14. Purefoy’sPromise Our Purefoy Promise is to choose the me I want to be, by being SAFEeveryday. I will Show respect, Act responsibly, Focuson learning andExpect the best.

15. HALL Procedures • School wide initiative to promote consistent expectations. • Hands to Your Side • All Eyes to Front • Lips Sealed • Low Speed

16. LUNCH Procedures • School wide initiative to promote consistent expectations. • Low Voices • Use your manners • No sharing food • Clean up after yourself • Hands raised for permission to get out of seat

17. DailySchedule 7:50-8:00 ~ Pick Up in Café/Unpack 8:05-8:15 ~ Announcements/Morning Work 8:15-8:45 ~ I & E with Daily 5/Stations 8:45-9:15 ~ Calendar Math 9:15-9:45 ~ Handwriting, Grammar, Spelling & Phonics 9:45-10:30 ~ CAMP 10:30-10:45 ~ Snack/Read-Aloud 10:45-11:15 ~ Science 11:15-12:00 ~ Math 12:00-12:30 ~ LUNCH 12:30-1:00 ~ RECESS 1:00-2:10 ~ Reader’s Workshop, Guided Reading, S.S. 2:10-2:50 ~ Writer's Workshop 2:50-3:00 ~ Reflection Time/Pack-Up 3:00 ~ Release for Dismissal

18. Housekeeping Library time is Friday at 1:00-1:30 If you would like to volunteer please contact the volunteer coordinator. Cindy Badon cindybadon@yahoo.com Log onto www.lotsofhelpinghands.com Sign up for parent/teacher conferences on Oct. 11th 10am-6pm

19. Communication Conference: 9:45-10:30 Before School 7:30-7:50 After School: 3:15- 3:30

20. ContactInformation Ms. DavidsonMrs. Bonn (469) 633-3891 (469) 633-3890 davidsca@friscoisd.org bonnk@friscoisd.org Mrs. CarlsonMrs. Arterburn (469) 633-3892 (469) 633-3887 carlsona@friscoisd.org arterbuc@friscoisd.org Miss Myers Miss Winkler (469) 633-3889 (469) 633-3888 myersb@friscoisd.org winklert@friscoisd.org Mrs. Atkins (469) 633-3876 atkinsf@friscoisd.org