Welcome to Back to School Night

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Welcome to Back to School Night

• Mrs. Nicole Barelli
• 1st grade
• Room 26

Enjoy the note your child wrote to you and please
leave a note for them on the back.
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Language Arts

• Houghton Mifflin--textbook anthology
• Daily Five for Literacy Independence- becoming
  excited about and responsible for their learning,
  and building stamina
• Read to Self
• Read to Others (social studies and science
  topics)
• Listen to Reading
• Working on Writing (choice)
• Word Work (sight words and spelling lists)
• Step Up to Writing expository and narrative
• Sharing/Speaking/Listening

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Spelling/Phonics

• District Words Their Way Spelling Assessment
• 3 different spelling lists based on individual
  assessment results Letter Name, Within Word and
  Syllable Juncture
• Assessment is given 3 times during the year.
  Students may move to different lists.
• Phonics instruction is sequential and based on
  class needs as determined by the assessments.

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Math

• Strands
• Basic Facts
• Patterning
• Statistics, Data Analysis, Probability
• Number Sense
• Algebra and Functions
• Measurement and Geometry
• Mathematical Reasoning
• Houghton Mifflin Mathematics
• Marilyn Burns Marcy Cook
• Problem solving experiences-- using manipulatives
  math journals to explain their thinking using
  pictures, numbers, and words.
• Cooperative Group Activities

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Social Studies

• First Grade Circuits
• Communities, holidays, important people, civic
  responsibilities, comparing and contrasting life
  in different times and different places, basic
  economic concepts, needs vs. wants, mapping
  skills
• Scholastic News
• Character Traits
• Project Cornerstone--We need volunteers.
• Developmental assets
• Builds a common language at school home

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Science

• Hands on experiment based units
• Plants and Animals
• Weather and Air
• Solids and Liquids

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PE, Music, Art, Technology, Library

• PE Wed and Thurs, PE coach from YMCA
• Music Weekly with grade level and bi-monthly
  with music teacher, Kathy Disney
• Art Laura Abada, once a month
• Tech Lab Weekly
• Eaton Library Fridays

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Grading

• 6 - Exceptional Proficiency The student
  consistently exceeds grade level standards.
• 5 - Advanced Proficiency The student
  consistently meets and often exceeds grade level
  standards.
• 4 - Proficient The student regularly meets and
  demonstrates proficiency in grade level
  standards.
• 3 - Developing Proficiency the student is
  beginning to, and often does, meet and
  demonstrate proficiency in the grade level
  standards.
• 2 - Limited Proficiency The student is beginning
  to, and occasionally does, meet and demonstrate
  proficiency in the grade level standards.
• 1 - Minimal Proficiency The student is not
  meeting
• or demonstrating proficiency in the grade
  level standards.

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Grading

• 6 point rubric on report card
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• Quality of daily work, projects, tests,
  presentations
• Music, Art, and PE graded on participation and
  effort

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Homework

• Reinforcement of concepts learned in class and
  teaches responsibility
• Daily reading
• Weekly packet-- comes home on Mondays and is
  returned on Fridays
• Spelling
• Sharing
• Occasional family project
• Please make sure your childs homework is
  complete and correct.

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Field Trips and Special Events

• Five Senses Walk
• Play Elves The Shoemaker
• Four walking trips to the Cupertino Library
• Natural Bridges State Park
• Happy Hollow
• Environmental Volunteers
• Palo Alto Jr. Museum--Viscosity Air Pressure
• Growing Gardens
• First Grade Musical

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Student Behavior

• Class rules and school rules
• Positive behavior reinforced using a special clip
  chart in the classroom
• praise privileges
• Consequences if necessary
• moving seats, loss of recess, speaking with the
  principal

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Miscellaneous

• Snacks--Please send a healthy low-sugar snack
• for your child to eat at recess.
• Friday Folders--Please take a moment to look
  through your childs folder each week and have
  your child return their Friday folder every
  Monday.
• Book Orders
• great prices, free books for classroom
• online ordering
• Star of the Week
• poster and Mystery Bag
• Birthdays
• stickers, bookmarks, pencils
• no food please

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Volunteers

• Room Parents
• Art Assistants (2 or more)
• Copy Prep
• Computer Lab
• Friday Folders
• Project Cornerstone (2)
• Chaperoning field trips

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Eaton Info

• Subscribe to Eaton newsletter
• Hot lunch Consider paying with a credit card
  on-line or by phone
• Donation
• Field trips, first grade circuits, assemblies,
  special classroom supplies
• Traffic/After school
• loading zone only at Suisun and Farallone
• no riding bikes or scooters on campus or in
  parking lots
• no playing after school until 345

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Communication

• Classroom newsletter
• Classroom website
• Email (my first preference)
• Voicemail
• Note

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Thank you so much for coming!

• 1. Dont forget to write your child a note.
• 2. Please fill out the Volunteer Form Class
  Directory and leave on the desk or return by
  Tuesday, September 7th.
• 3.Curriculum and procedures packet and Power
  Point will be placed on the website. The sharing
  schedule will also be available on the website.
• 4.I look forward to discussing your childs
  individual progress during conferences in
  October.