Welcome Parents! Can you find your child’s self-portrait hanging by the windows? Write your name and picture # of the child you think is yours on the yellow.

Welcome Parents!Can you find your child’s self-portrait hanging by the windows?•Write your name and picture # of the child you think is yours on the yellow slip. •Drop the yellow slip of paper in the blue basket. The true identities will be displayed at the end of the presentation! Your child wrote a welcome note to you. Use a pencil from their pencil box to write back.

Back to School Night Back to School Night 2015-20162015-2016

Back to School Night Back to School Night 2015-20162015-2016Welcome Parents!Welcome Parents!

First Grade, Room 24 First Grade, Room 24 Mrs. Carroll Mrs. Carroll

A Little About Me…

A Day in the Life…• Morning routine• Fundations• Daily 5, Making Meaning• Lunch/Recess• Calendar• Special(s)• Math• Writing Workshop• Social Studies/Science• Pack up/snack

Language Arts• Philosophy: Balanced Literacy

Language ArtsReading Components:•Making Meaning

Shared ReadingModeled ReadingGuided ReadingIndependent ReadingTalk about readingWrite about readingRaz-Kids

Language Arts

• Writing Components:• Being a Writer

Mentor TextsModeled WritingGuided WritingIndependent WritingSharing and partner work

What is Wilson Fundations?

• The foundation for reading and spelling  

• Provides a structured, sequential, and cumulative phonics/spelling program using multisensory teaching techniques

What is Wilson Fundations?

• Part of the balanced literacy instruction, delivered to all students for 30 minutes per day

• Emphasizes phonemic awareness, phonics-word study, high frequency word study, fluency, vocabulary, handwriting and spelling

Program Highlights: • letter formation and print knowledge• blend and segment up to 5 sounds   for example: c a t• identify the elements of word structure:

blends, digraphs, short and long vowels, basewords, suffixes, syllables types (closed and vowel-consonant-e syllables)

Program Highlights• read, spell and write “trick” and high

frequency words  

For example: to, too, two• stories (fiction and nonfiction) that provide

instruction for fluency, expression and understanding

• beginning compositional skills:  capitalization, punctuation and proofreading procedures

Home Support• You are the “coach!” Please set time to

read Fundations letters that come home and do the homework activities from the Home Support Pack.

• Please support classroom instruction by using the verbal step-by-step guidelines for proper letter formation.

Home Support• Proper pencil grip and correct

letter and number formation will lessen fatigue in the hands and builds stamina for writing neatly.

• *Please note there are periodic unit assessments. There will be no weekly spelling tests.

Daily 5• A framework for structuring

literacy time so students develop lifelong habits of reading, writing, and working independently.

Daily 5• BRIEF whole group instruction

• 1st round of Daily 5• BRIEF whole group instruction

• 2nd round of Daily 5• BRIEF whole group instruction

• 3rd round of Daily 5

Daily 5• It is called The Daily Five because there are five

literacy components for children to choose from when they go off to work. These components

are:

• Read to Self• Read to Someone• Listen to Reading• Work on Writing

• Working with Words

Math Standards Operations and Algebraic Thinking- Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction.- Understand and apply properties of operations and the relationship between addition and subtraction.- Add and subtract within 20.- Work with addition and subtraction equations.

•Number and Operations in Base Ten• - Extend the counting sequence.• - Understand place value.• - Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract.

•Measurement and Data• - Measure lengths indirectly and by iterating length units.• - Tell and write time.• - Represent and interpret data.

•Geometry• - Reason with shapes and their attributes.

Math Standards

Number and Operations in Base Ten- Extend the counting sequence.- Understand place value.- Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract.

Math StandardsMeasurement and Data- Measure lengths indirectly and by iterating

length units.- Tell and write time.- Represent and interpret data.

Geometry- Reason with shapes and their attributes.

GO Math• Exploration of concepts before learning the

steps to solve problems• Deep level of understanding• Hands-on activities• Critical thinking and problem solving

opportunities• Connections to real-life• Online opportunities for reteach, enrichment,

and/or practice

Science• Inquiry-based instruction• Hands on experiments• Two UnitsAir and WeatherSolids and Liquids

Social Studies• People and Places published by

Macmillan/McGraw-Hill• Holidays

Report Cards

• Distributed December, April, June• GradingA - AchievedP - Partially achievedD - DevelopingI - Improvement neededN - Not Assessed at the time

HomeworkMissed Homework Due to Personal Reasons•School policy states that if a child misses school for personal reasons, missed homework will be given to the child the day he/she returns to school. The number of days absent is the number of days your child has to complete the homework.

Things to mention:• Birthdays• Class Parties

Class Webpage• http://www.warrentboe.org/Teacher Webpages: Central School:

Mrs. L. Carroll

• Curriculum Information:http://www.warrentboe.org/curriculum/pages/Curriculum-Guides/

Self-Portrait Answer Key:Evan # 15 Aiden # 9Jan # 10 Michelle # 3Finn # 16 Gianluca # 11Megan # 4 Emily # 2Sara # 5 Sydney # 7Eric # 14 Tessa # 6Liam # 13 Landon # 1Ryan # 8 Nina # 12

Look Around the Room!Please check the green kidney table to sign up for conferences and parties.

Also, be sure to write a letter back to your child before you leave!

Thank you for coming!

Go Math! Concepts for 3rd Grade:

Operations and Algebraic Thinking 3.0Arepresent and solve problems involving multiplication and divisionunderstand properties of multiplication and the relationship between multiplication and divisionmultiply and divide within 100*By the end of Grade 3, know from memory all products of two one-digit numbers.*

Go Math! Concepts for 3rd Grade:

Number and Operations-Fractions 3.NF

develop understanding of fractions as numbers:a. part of a whole or a groupb. on the number linec. equivalence and ordering

Go Math! Concepts for 3rd Grade:

Measurement and Data 3.MDtime, liquid volumes, and masses of

objectsarea and perimeterrepresent and interpret data:

a. draw and interpret picture and bar graphs

b. generate measurement data by measuring lengths using rulers marked with halves and fourths of an inch

Go Math! Concepts for 3rd Grade:

Geometry 3.G2-dimensional shapes and their

attributesNumber and Operations in Base

Ten 3.NBTuse place value understanding and

properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic:a. round numbers to the nearest 10 or 100b. fluently add and subtract within 1,000

What to Expect in theGo Math! Program:

• exploration of concepts BEFORE learning the steps to solve problems

• hands-on, differentiated activities• numerous strategies presented (for multiplication,

comparing fractions, calculating area, etc.)• higher-level thinking • solve multistep problems• explain thinking when solving problems• real-life applications of concepts• deeper level of understanding• online opportunities for reteach, enrichment, and/or

practice • spiral review on practice workbook pages• tests are all word problems

Social Studies• Topics

– Communities– Native American Communities– Jamestown– Pioneers – Daniel Boone, Lewis and Clark– Immigrants– Economics– Local, State and National Government

Science

• UnitsPlant Growth and DevelopmentRocks and Minerals

Chemical Tests

PARCC• PARCC: Partnership for Assessment of Readiness

for College and Careers • Computer-based assessment for English Language

Arts (ELA)/Literacy and Mathematics in Grades 3 through 11 that is linked to the new, more rigorous Common Core State Standards (CCSS).

• Beginning of March; End of April• http://www.warrentboe.org/_files/TeacherPages//P

ARCC.FAQ.pdf

Technology• iPads/Laptops:Think CentralRaz-KidsSpelling CityEduTypingBrain Pop, Jr.Kidblog

Classroom Procedures

•Expectations: Class Promise•Homework– Usually 4 nights/week– Read for at least 15 minutes– Sign planner every night after

homework is completed– No more than 45 minutes

• Friday Folders• Tests and quizzes• Parent/teacher communication:

– Note in planner– E-mail– Voicemail– Our webpage: please subscribe!

• Birthday Celebrations

Classroom Procedures

A Word From Our Homeroom Parents