Beg. year presentation Sept 2014

Back to School Night!Dan, Josie and Christophe

http://www.tokyois.com/main/

Grade 1 Routines● Shared Mini-

lessons● Separate classes

for work in all areas

● Allows for differentiation as year progress

● Incorporates the Learning Support Team

Reading Program and Homework

• Reader's Workshop• Guided Reading• Independent

Reading• Home Reading is

important• Conferring

Reading Units

• Readers Build Good Habits• Non-fiction -Readers Learn about the World• Word detectives use all they know to solve

word problems • Dramatizing Characters and Deepening our

Comprehension in Reading Clubs• Reading Across Genres • Readers can read about Science Topics to

become Experts.

Writing• Writing Workshop• Conferring• Spelling• Moving towards

Words our Way

Writing Units

• Launching Small Moments

• Non-Fiction chapter books

• Authors as Mentors• Opinion Writing and

Reviews

• Narrative: The scenes to series

• Poetry• Procedural Writing

(How to Books)• Informational

Writing about Scientific method

Speaking and Listening• Develops

grammatically correct formal communication

• Confidence• Projection• Focusing on the

audience• Active listening

Math • Work towards

outcomes in math• Cover number,

measurement data-handling, space, pattern and functions

• Game-based learning

IB PYP Program• Works across 6 main

themes• Transdisciplinary• Focus on approaches

to learning• Focus on the learner

profile• Learner Profile brings

the school mission statement to life!

Units in Order:• The Interconnected School (Aug-Sept) • Senses: Discovery and Safety (Oct-Nov)• Relationships and Causation (Nov-Jan)• The Elements of Drama (Jan-Feb)• Maps: What They Tell Us (Mar-April)• The Needs of Weeds(and other plants) (April

–June)

Technology supporting learning

Specialist lessons

• Art, Music (Michael)• PE (Malgorzata)• Japanese (Miho,

Yuichiro, Yuko, Sayaka)

• Library (John K.)• Social Thinking

Support

• Full-time teacher aide- grade 1(Christophe)

• EAL Team (Kristen)• Learning Support

(Lisa)• Counselor (Ed)• Nurse (Megumi)

RemindersAny questions? • School outfits

• Label all items• Get a blue/green

book bag• Home Readers-Daily

change• Newsletter• Nut-free school• Emails

Wanted: Parent

Rep.