1. Welcome to Curriculum First Grade Night

2. Agenda Welcome Debbie Falkner Math Pam Gill/Debbie Falkner
What is first grade all about? What will your child be doing in first grade this year?
Math Pam Gill/Debbie Falkner
Writer’s Workshop Lesley Christie/Joanna Klager
Guided Reading Debbie Falkner
Reader’s Workshop Ashley Landis/Danielle Makesyn
Letterland Tiffany Norman
Science/Social Studies/
Project Based Learning Jennifer Robertson
Field Trips Tiffany Norman
Homework Jennifer Robertson
Interims/Report Cards Pam Gill
Game, Game Game! 
Plus/Delta

3. Math
Common Core Math
Math Stations
Differentiated Math Groups
Building Concepts
Math Talk
Quick Practice
Student Leaders
Homework

4. Workshop Cycle Learning & Instruction
Writer’s Workshop
Workshop Cycle Learning & Instruction
Mini-lesson
Common Core Focus: narrative, opinion, and informative writing
Student Application (write, respond, confer)
Independent Writing
Cycle of prewriting, drafting, revising
Edit, publish, Author’s Celebration
Reflection

5. Guided Reading Instructional Reading Levels = Guidelines Small Groups
Focused Strategies and Skills
Lesson Breakdown
Introduce text
Focused Prompt or Reading Behavior
Students Read Silently or to Teacher
Teaching Point
Word Work
Comprehension Check
Oral
Written
Phonemic awareness, phonics, comprehension, fluency, vocabulary

6. Reader’s Workshop Workshop Cycle Learning & Instruction Primary focus
Mini-lesson
Student Application (read, respond, confer)
Reflection
Primary focus
Creating a community of readers and thinkers
Decoding Skills
Comprehension Skills

7. Letterland Our Word Study program is…….
Students will learn spelling patterns in words to help them decode tricky words as well as write new words.

8. Science Social Stuides
Pebbles, Sand and Silt
Balance and Motion
Organisms
Earth, Moon, and Sun
Social Studies
Community
Citizens
Traditions around the world
Maps
Supply and Demand/ Goods and services

9. Field Trips
The first grade team is currently in the process of planning field trips for this year. We will be glad to share the dates and locations with you soon.
Please remember…. If you volunteer to chaperone on a field trip, you must register as a WCPSS volunteer on a school computer.

10. Homework Get Go Gator signed and discuss your
Child’s reflection sheet.
Read EVERY night (10 minutes.)
Math pages… will be introducing
soon
Practice sight words & word families
Wake County policy is that first grade homework should take no longer than 20 minutes each night. Blue homework folders will be sent home on Mondays and will be expected to be returned on Fridays of the same week.
Letterland practice…will be introducing soon

11. Project Based Learning
Community/Citizenship
Traditions Around The World
NC Habitats
World Environments
Insects & Plants
Writing like a Scientist

12. Interims & Report Cards
Interims sent home to students half-way through1st quarter, 2nd quarter, 3rd quarter, and 4th quarter. Parent conferences will be held at any time upon request.
Report cards are sent home with students at the end of each quarter.
Student-led conferences will be at the end of the 4th quarter.

13. GAME! GAME! GAME! GAME! First graders are worth a million!

14. Plus Delta