Welcome to First Grade!
Teacher: Genie Phipps
Teacher Assistant: Wendy McCoy
Nightly Reading and Homework
Students in grades K-1 are required to read or be read to each homework night. Research has shown that the best way to help your child become a successful reader is to read with them every day. Your child will bring a book home each assigned homework night in his/her student folder. Please make sure the book is returned to the folder each day. You may also read another book of your choice for the nightly reading assignment. After reading with your child, you will need to record the title of the book in the appropriate space and initial the parent signature section on the reading log located in the student folder.
The homework assignments will be used to reinforce concepts taught in class. Your child may also bring home assignments that he/she did not complete in class. Please guide your child through the homework assignment; however, let him/her do the work.
Parent involvement is so important to the success of your child at school.
Classroom Rules
Your child will be expected to follow these rules and procedures:
Keep your feet, hands, and objects to yourself.
Use your inside voice
Follow directions the first time.
Walk, don’t run
Consequences
Each morning, every child has a green card showing in their pocket. When given a warning, their green card is turned to white. If given a second warning your child’s card is turned to yellow and they will miss break. If it is necessary for your child’s card to be turned to red, a note will be sent home for you to sign and return.
Green Card = Doing great
White Card = First warning
Yellow Card = Loss of break/privileges
Red Card = Note home to parents
Rewards for GOOD behavior
Parent involvement is so important to the success of your child at school.
Daily Praise
Special Treats
Extra Privileges
Stickers
Thanks for your help and support.
Mid Year First Grade
Developing: Levels 9-12
Repetition of 3 or more sentence patterns or varied sentence patterns with repeated phrases
Blend of oral and written language structures
Fantasy in framework of familiar experiences
Illustration which provides moderate support for predicting and confirming vocabulary
Different genres used
Knowledge of vowel sounds and letters used
End of Year First Grade
Developing: Levels 13-15
Varied sentence patterns
Written language structures
Oral language used in dialogue
Conventional story and literary language
Vocabulary which may include specialized, more sophisticated terms
Illustrations used to fill in unwritten details and provide low to moderate support
Decoding skills used to read unknown, new vocabulary
Book and Print Awareness
Knows parts of books and functions of each part
Demonstrates understanding of directionality and voice-print match by following print word for word when listening to familiar text read aloud
Demonstrates understanding of letters, words, and story
Phonemic Awareness
Demonstrates understanding that spoken language is a sequence of identifiable speech sounds
Demonstrates understanding that the sequence of letters in the written word represents the sequence of sounds in the spoken word
Demonstrates understanding of the sounds of letters and understanding that words begin and end alike
Recognizes and names upper and lower case letters of the alphabet
Recognizes some words by sight including a few common words, own name, and environmental print such as signs, labels, and trademarks
Recognizes most beginning consonant letter-sound associations in one-syllable words
Uses new vocabulary and language in own speech
Understands and follows oral/graphic directions
Demonstrated sense of story (Beginning, middle, end, characters, details)
Connects information and events in text to experience
Reads or begins to read
Demonstrates familiarity with a variety of types of books and selections
Mathematics
Using numbers
Model numbers in a variety of ways
Read, write and count using whole numbers
Use 1-1 correspondence to identify how many
Recognize numbers and match to sets 0 -10
Write numbers 0 -9 in meaningful contexts
Use ordinals first through fifth
Create and identify sets with more, less, or equal members by matching
Estimate quantities less than 20
Computing
Combine and remove objects from sets, describe results
Share equally between two people, explain solution
Applying Geometric Concepts
Recognize basic two-dimensional figures: circle, square, triangle, and rectangle. Describe their likenesses and differences and identify them in the environment
Compare and order objects using appropriate vocabulary
Model and use directional and positional words
Solving problems
Create and solve story problems within a group
Complete simple spatial visualization tasks and puzzles
Using Measurement Concepts
Use non-standard measurement of length, weight, capacity and time.
Name the days of the week
Using patterns/relationships
Describe likenesses and differences between and among objects
Sort by a given attribute; sort by own rule and explain
Identify, copy, continue, and describe patterns
Dealing with data and graphing
Collect data to create concrete and pictorial graphs and describe the results as a group activity
