1. Welcome to Ms. Kovac’s 1st Grade Class!
Overview :
Reminders
In Your Envelope…
1st Grade Curriculum
Standard Based Report Cards
Partners in Learning
Helpful Websites

2. Reminders Start Time: 8:35 Late Bell: 8:45
Buying Lunch - Send money in a marked envelope with name and 1K or add money through online account (Parent Portal)
Snack – Snacks should be in a separate bag from their lunch.
6 Day Schedule
1K Food Allergies: peanuts, tree nuts, peas, sesame
Remind 101

3. In Your Envelope… Class List – for birthday invitations, valentines
Reading Level Chart
Traffic Light Letter – behavior management/communication log
Scholastic catalog for September
Responsive Classroom/Morning Meeting
“Deer Parints” Letter
Sight Words (Dolch)
Handwriting Without Tears
Eureka Math Parent Roadmap
Front Row & Zearn login information
100 Book Reading Incentive

4. Readers’ Workshop You will see:
Children reading books on their Independent Level
Students being assessed and reassessed throughout the year (Columbia Teachers College assessment)
Children conferencing with teachers, talking with each other about their reading, and writing about their reading
Students building their reading stamina
Exposure to on-level and higher-level texts
*Homework
*Reading Buddies with 5P
*100 Books Reading Incentive

5. Writers’ Workshop You will see students: Building writing stamina
Establishing a working relationship with a writing partner
Studying authors and emulating similar writing techniques
Identifying and implementing traits of realistic fiction and nonfiction writing
Pieces of Writing:
Narrative
Opinion
Informational

6. Word Study Students working at their independent developmental level
Sight Words
Applying sounds/patterns to their writing
Using word patterns to help decode when reading

7. Eureka Math/Engage NY
“Eureka was built around the core principle that students need to know more than just what works when solving a problem—they need to understand why it works. The curriculum goes beyond facts and formulas, teaching students to think about math conceptually. This helps students become not merely literate, but fluent in mathematics.” -Greatminds.org Parent Night 6:30

8. Math Goals Required Fluency for Grade 1: Add/Subtract within 10
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.
Extending the counting sequence.
Understand place value.
Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract.
Measure lengths indirectly and by iterating length unit
Represent and interpret data.
Tell and write time.
Reason with shapes and their attributes
Required Fluency for Grade 1: Add/Subtract within 10

9. Science & Social Studies
Weather
Living Creatures
Plants
Life Cycles
Social Studies
Establishing a Community
Customs & Holidays
Our National Heritage
African American History
Economics
Geography

10. Standards Based Report Cards
What are they?
Research based
Provides specific feedback to students, parents, and teacher about student progress
Disentangles learning behaviors and effort from progress toward academic goals
Promotes consistency in grading within a grade level and between grade levels
Helps focus instruction and assessment
Parent Night – October 20th
How will they be different?
We will have four marking periods with mid-marking period reports being only issued to students whose progress is of concern
No overall subject grades
Grade is not an average of performance
Proficiency on specific objectives will be identified
Effort and behavior will be assessed separately
Teachers will use rubrics to identify levels of proficiency for each standard

11. Partners in Learning How to reinforce skills at home:
Read to and with your child – this is one of the best things you can do to help your child become the strongest reader they can be!
Talk to your child about their daily events, special things that have happened and other topics of interest. This helps to prepare your child for telling and writing stories about their lives.
Additional activities for math, reading and sight word practice are located on my website
Front Row
Zearn

12. In Closing… Thank you for coming!
Please feel free to look around the room, write your child a letter, or ask any questions at this time.
Thank you for coming!