Welcome to 1st Grade

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Welcome to1st Grade

• Mrs. Ogden
• Room 7

vistaverdefirstgrade.weebly.com
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Back to School Night

• 1st Graders
• Vista Verde Program
• STAR
• Curriculum overview

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Sound familiar?

• 1st graders go through many behavioral changes
  throughout the yearall of these are normal!
• Want to be best and first
• Have boundless energy
• May be oppositional, critical, and silly
• May have difficulty being flexible
• Cry easily

From the American School Counselor Association
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They learn to

• Develop positive, realistic self-concepts
• Respect themselves
• Gain awareness of their feelings
• Express feelings
• Participate in groups
• Learn from their mistakes

From the American School Counselor Association
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Vista Verde 1st Grade

• Tonight we will discuss
• Philosophy
• Parent-teacher partnership
• Success and growth for all students
• Daily schedule
• Snack and lunch
• Dress code Birthdays
• Homework
• Volunteers

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STAR Program

• Safety first
• There and Ready
• Act Responsibly
• Respect self and others

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Curriculum- Common Core

• First grade is implementing Common Core Standards
• This is a national movement in education,
  designed to establish a clear and consistent
  curricular framework to prepare students for
  college and the workforce.
• Real world relevance is the essence of Common
  Core instruction.
•  Newly revised report cards will reflect
  achievement in Common Core Standards

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Reading Groups (GROW)

• Targets the learning needs of each student in
  reading
• Based on reading assessments done 5 times during
  the year
• Flexible groups which allow for movement, as
  indicated by assessments
• Please consider volunteering for this time if
  you are comfortable leading a small group.
  Commitments are weekly for one hour 15 minutes.

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Curriculum - Writing

• Daily writing, many purposes
• Letter names and sounds
• Penmanship, pencil grip
• Writing fluency
• Writers Workshop
• Students will learn the formal writing process
  for three genres (narrative, opinion, persuasive)

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Curriculum - Spelling

• High frequency word lists and words to know
  from our literature series
• Proper spelling of these and accountable for
  their use in daily writing
• Students taught to be resourceful, using
  dictionaries, room environment, and other
  resources
• Phonetic spelling helps flow of ideas for
  writing. Please encourage your child to write the
  sounds they hear rather than spell words
  correctly for them.
• Conventional spelling develops by the end of
  first grade.
• Spelling tests will be given weekly beginning in
  the fall.

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Curriculum - Math

• Balanced, challenging, and fast paced based on
  Common Core curriculum
• Hands-on learning
• Problem solving strategies
• Marcy Cook Math Tiles (volunteers needed)
• Concepts include
• number sense,
• algebra and functions
• measurement and geometry
• statistics, data analysis, and
• probability
• mathematical reasoning

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Curriculum Health PE

• Health
• The Great Body Shop
• Physical Education
• Coach hand-eye coordination, ball skills,
  aerobic movement, and games that encourage
  cooperation
• Club Viking additional program taught by
  selected middle school students
• Jogathon, Spring
• Field Day, June

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Curriculum-Other special activities

• Computers Library
• Weekly
• Music
• Choral taught by a music specialist (provided by
  your generous donations to PTA)
• Every other Friday morning.
• Art
• Meet the Masters The life and style of art
  masters (provided by your generous donations to
  PTA)
• Arts Advantage Artistic composition,
• use of space and color (district program)

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Curriculum Reinforcement Challenge

• All students are offered a challenging program
  that will help them achieve their full potential
• Variety of activities and strategies
• Small group and individual assignments that
  either reinforce or engage the learner in higher
  level thinking
  
  

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Homework

• Homework will be available each Monday through
  our 1st grade website (vistaverdefirstgrade.weebly
  .com). Pages should be printed and returned to
  your teacher on Friday in the provided folders.
• Homework is intended to be a review of lessons
  taught in class, daily. Please complete pages of
  homework according to the weekly pacing guide.
• Homework will consist of math review, spelling
  practice, and reading.

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We cant forget

• Absences
• Attendance line
• Excused/unexcused absences
• Excused illness, Dr. appointment, death in
  immediate family, religious holiday
• Volunteers always welcome!
• Sign-ups will be available at Back to School
  Night
• Please register with Help Desk in the front
  office before you begin volunteering. You will be
  required to check in and out each time you come
  to school.
• New volunteers will need to submit a copy of
  their drivers license.

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Need to find us

• Ms. Farquhar Room 1
• patriciafarquhar_at_iusd.org
• Mrs. Reynolds Room 2
• anniereynolds_at_iusd.org
• Mrs. Scofield Room 7
• amyscofield_at_iusd.org
• Ms. Gornbein Room 8
• elisagornbein_at_iusd.org

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Thank you!

• We look forward to a wonderful year!