First Grade Open House

Overview

• Morning Meeting• Responsive Classroom• Reading• Math• Writer’s Workshop• Throughlines and Theme• Homework• MI Profile and Conferences• Questions and Answers

Morning Meeting

• 8:30-9:00 daily

• We use the first half hour of our day for a wide variety of community building activities tied to academics. If your child is coming to school late, the following are some of the very important activities he/she might be missing!

• Greeting

• Share time

• Group Activities

• Morning message

Group Activities that support Literacy

• Word Wall• Dictionary Skills• Word Families• Journal Writing• Handwriting• Word Play

Habits of Mind

• Be learners• Push their limits• Use resources• Be accurate• Accept and use feedback• Restrain impulsivity• Be sensitive to others• Engage intensely in a task

Reading• Guided Reading Differentiated Instruction

• Shared Reading Big Books for strategies

• Reader’s Workshop Independent Reading with conferences

• Language Arts Centers Choices during practice

The Beginning

Characters

The three pigs

Setting Problem

A meadow They had to

outwit a wolf

Informational Text

T = The topic of the piece of writing

A fact, reason, or detail about that topic

Examples or elaboration

Examples or elaboration

What did you do in Math today?

Pa tterns

Num ber Se nseMon ey

Mea su re ment

Geome try

Place Value

Ad dit ion/Subt raction

Fra ctions

What We Do In Math

Is that all?

Literature Connections (linguistic)

Reflections (intrapersonal)

Games (interpersonal)

Calendar

Homework

The Magic Number

10

Writer’s Workshop

• Mini-lessons The Reading Writing Connection Sentence Writing

Creating Stories and Other Genres

Spelling and Conventions

Good WritingIdeas Organization

Strong Words Sentence FluencyVoice Conventions

Through a ProcessPrewriting Drafting Responding

Revising Editing

Publishing

Sentence Building

Noun + Verb The cat runs. • Sentences start with capitals and end with

periods.

Noun + Strong Verb The cat races.• Introduce subject and predicate.• Reinforce uppercase letter at the beginning of

a sentence and period at the end.

In First Grade

T= Pick a topic and go with it.

Slow down and write a sentence

about your topic.

Stop and tell the reader more.

Throughlines:

• How does recognizing patterns help us learn new things?

• In what ways are living things connected?

• How do community members solve problems?

First Grade Year-long Theme:How Does Our Garden Grow

Units:

Friendship GardenABCs of Ants and Bees

The SneetchesHelping the Community “MI” Way

Plants

Peter Pan

Friendship GardenThe garden as a metaphor

for building classroom

community

ABC’s of Ants and BeesBees and ants as community members in

our garden

The SneetchesA play about appreciating what a person is

like on the inside.

Helping the Community “MI” Way

A study of how people use their Multiple Intelligences to help their communities.

PlantsWhat do plants need and

contribute to a garden

community?

Peter PanA performance to help us learn how to work

together and make the best of disappointing situations

Homework Schedule

• Monday Reading Log and Math• Tuesday Reading Log and Language• Wednesday Reading Log and Math• Thursday Reading Log

Check schedule inside the Reading Log for when M.I. Shares and letters are due.

Reading Logs will go home on Mondays and are due back on Fridays. If there is no school on Friday, the logs are due on Thursday.

Homework Folders will go home on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays and are due back the next day.

Reading Log

• Children read or are read to for at least 15 minutes four nights a week. This is in addition to regularly assigned homework.

• Children record information in the Reading

Log.

• Fridays we have a Reading Log Share.

Math and Language Homework

• Make sure child understands directions

• Check when finished

• Note any difficulties

Letters

Several times throughout the year.

Much more detailed information will

come home before the first letter is due.

M.I.Shares

In the “olden days” M.I. Shares would probably have been called book reports.

• Opportunity to share/summarize a favorite poem or book

• Practice presentation skills

M.I. Shares

• Poetry - Recite a favorite poem• Fairy Tales - Re-tell a favorite tale• Biography - Teach the class about someone

famous• Naturalist - Explain a natural phenomena or

teach about an animal

Much more detailed information will

come home before the first round of

M.I. Shares are due.

Reading Logs are due EVERY Friday (or Thursday if there is no school on Friday). I naddition, here is the schedule for when your child has an MI Share due. Detailedinformation about each share will come in the weeks before that share.

The children will also have to write periodic letters about a book that they have read.That schedule is also below.

Poetry MI Share - Homework assignment for the week of November 8th.

Presentations the week of November 15th.

Monday 11/ 15 Tuesday 11/ 16 Wed. 11/ 17 Thursday 11/ 18 Friday 11/ 19

Biography MI Share - Homework assignment the week of J anuary 17th.

Presentation the week of J anuary 24th.

Monday 1/ 24 Tuesday 1/ 25 Wed. 1/ 26 Thursday 1/ 27 Friday 1/ 28

Fairy Tale MI Share - Homework assignment the week of February 28th.

Presentation the week of March 7th.

Monday 3/ 7 Tuesday 3/ 8 Wed. 3/ 9 Thursday 3/ 10 Friday 3/ 11

Naturalist MI Share - Homework the week of April 25th.

Presentation the week of May 2nd.

Monday 5/ 2 Tuesday 5/ 3 Wed. 5/ 4 Thursday 5/ 5 Friday 5/ 6

Letters are due on October 29, December 17, February 18, April 8, and May 20.

New City School -- MI PROFILEIntelligence is “the ability to solve a problem or create a product that is valued in a society” (Gardner, Frames of Mind, 1983).

The Multiple Intelligences

Linguistic = sensitivity to the meaning and order of words

Logical-mathematical = the ability to handle chains of reasoning and to recognize patterns and order

Musical = sensitivity to pitch, melody, rhythm and tone

Bodily-kinesthetic = the ability to use the body skillfully and handle objects adroitly

Spatial = the ability to perceive the world accurately and to recreate or transform aspects of that world

Naturalist = the ability to recognize and classify the numerous species, the flora and fauna, of an environment

Interpersonal = the ability to understand people and relationships

Intrapersonal = access to one's emotional life as a means to understand oneself and others

MI PROFILE

Student chooses/uses this intelligence

Linguistic

Logical-mathematical

Musical Spatial B-K Naturalist Intrapersonal Interpersonal

Frequently

Occasionally

Rarely

Fall – Parent PerceptionsHow do you see your child pursuing the intelligences? In which intelligences is s/he most interested, active, and enthusiastic?This MI Profile captures parents’ perceptions about a student’s enthusiasm and interests in the various intelligences, based on how often s/he chooses to use them, not a student’s MI strengths (even though there may be a positive correlation between them). Students will complete a similar report on themselves in the winter, and teachers will share their perceptions in the spring.