Welcome to Back to School Night: Grade 1

1. Welcome to Back to School Night: Grade 1 Megan Cebulski – NH 20 Kelley Coleman – SH 45 Kate Davignon – SH 44 Jessica Gilleylen – NH 22 Kevin Guertin – SH 42 Priscilla Kehoe – NH 21 Chrissy Kenefic – NH 23 Penny McNulty – NH 15 Brooke Quinn – SH 38

2. WritER’S WORKSHOP Genres • Descriptive • Narrative • Expository • Friendly letter • Persuasive • Poetic

3. Genre characteristics • Descriptive • elaborate use of sensory language • rich, vivid, and lively detail • Narrative • plot structure • conflict • characterization • setting • theme • point of view • sequencing • Expository • focus on main topic • logical supporting facts • details, explanations, and examples • Friendly letter • Heading (date) • Greeting • Body • Closing • Signature • Persuasive • stated position or belief • factual supports • Poetic • rhyme • meter • poetic devices • free verse • blank verse

4. Within each genre, students will… • Understand and use steps of writing process including: plan, draft, revise, edit, publish/present, reflect • Use a Writer’s Notebook • Writing territories • Personal for each child • Ideas for future writing • Sketching • Helps frame thinking, especially for visual learners

5. Reader’s Workshop Genre Units • Launching Reader’s Workshop • Picture Books • Author Study of Kevin Henkes • Realistic Fiction • Informational Text • Tales • Poetry • Mystery

6. Reader’s Workshop Model • This model allows students to spend an extended amount of time reading authentic texts that interest them. Comprehension strategies, fluency, decoding and other reading skills are taught within this workshop. The ultimate goal is to develop life-long readers.

7. Readers workshop • Mini-Lesson: explicit instruction in a reading procedure, craft or skill • Independent Reading: students read individually while practicing what was just taught and modeled in the mini-lesson. • Guided Reading: small group instruction that addresses specific needs of students. The teacher guides and observes the reading behaviors of each student. • Reflection: children think about what he/she did as a reader during the workshop. What did I learn today and how can it help me in the future? • Round-Up: this provides closure to the workshop and gives the teacher one last opportunity to reinforce concept taught that day.

8. Fundations • Focuses on learning the structural analysis of the English language in order to promote life-long literacy • Part of our Balanced Literacy program which incorporates phonological and phonemic awareness, phonics and spelling • One, thirty minute time period everyday • Multi-Sensory (auditory, visual and kinesthetic) approach to instruction

9. Fundations • First grade components: • Letter formation • Phonological andphonemic awareness • Sound mastery • Phonics • Vocabulary • Trick words (sight words) • Fluency • Comprehension • Written composition

10. Mathematics • Everyday Math Program (EDM) • Teaching for Understanding • Spiral Curriculum • Home/School Connection • Family Letters • Home Links

11. Math Content Strands • Understand & Describe patterns and functional relationships • Represent & Analyze quantitative relationships in a variety of ways • Use operations, properties and algebraic symbols to determine equivalence and solve problems • Understand that a variety of numerical representations can be used to describe quantitative relationships

12. Math Content Strands • Use numbers and their properties to compute flexibly and fluently and to reasonably estimate measure and quantities • Use properties and characteristics of two and three-dimensional shapes and geometric theorems to describe relationships, communicate ideas and solve problems • Use spatial reasoning, location and geometric relationships to solve problems

13. Math Content Strands • Develop and apply units, systems, formulas and appropriate tools to estimate and measure • Collect, organize and display data using appropriate statistical and graphical methods • Analyze data sets to form hypotheses and make predictions • Understand and apply basic concepts of probability

14. Mathematics • Use of Manipulatives • Math Games • Guided Math • Exemplars

15. Science Curriculum Our First Grade Science Curriculum is made up of three major units of study… - Sun and Shadows - Forces in Motion - Living Things

16. Sun and Shadows • In this unit, students will be able to explain the apparent movement of the sun across the sky and the resulting changes in shadows. • Students will make observations and ask questions about objects and the environment. • Students will make predictions based on their observations, and patterns they have noticed.

17. Forces in Motion • In this unit, students will begin by describing the place and location of an object. • Students will understand that the motion of an object can be changed by pushing and pulling as well as incorporating other variables.

18. Living Things • In this unit, students will be looking at the life cycles of plants and animals, and understanding that the behaviors of living things allow them to meet their basic needs. • Students will be able to identify the different structures plants have for obtaining water and sunlight, as well as the structures humans and other animals have for moving around.

19. How will we do it? • Through the exploration of big ideas • Inquiry Approach to Learning • Hands on experiments • Integrating Literature • Making use of our science lab

20. Social Studies Communities • Groups • Place & Location • India, China, Japan

21. Groups • Classroom and School • Characteristics of Families • Traditions • Wants and Needs

22. Place and Location • Maps • Landforms

23. India, China, and Japan • Classroom • Families and Communities • Traditions • Geography

26. Odds and Ends Security Buzzer System Sign In Lunch Accounts Drop Off and Pick Up Afterschool Programs

27. Thank you for coming!