1. Welcome to Room 106!
Welcome to our classroom! It’s been a great start to the school year. As with anything new, it will take a little bit of time for students to get acquainted with new routines and responsibilities, so I just ask for your patience until we can have several days in a row to practice with homework folders and such.

2. About Mrs. Maiese 13th year teaching at Titus Bloomsburg University
*Bachelor’s Degree
*Concentration in Deaf Education
Temple University
*Masters in curriculum,
instruction, & technology
Interesting Quirk:
*I keep an inventor’s journal and
aspire to be on Shark Tank

3. Fun in First!

4. The glue that holds us together
Classroom Management
Make learning fun & interesting
Clear Expectations
Energizers & movement breaks
Positive reinforcement
Warm & Fuzzies (individual & by table group)

5. Classroom Connections
“Ask Me About” Newsletter
Wednesday Folders
Contain important papers
Return every Thursday
If something has a score, sign it and return it.
Grab Sight Word Challenge Binder

6. Homework RED Homework Folders Roughly 10 minutes
Please keep homework books in homework folders
Check & return folders everyday
Roughly 10 minutes
At-Home Reading calendar* - Write book title & signature (10 = sticker & 50 = trip to the reading lab box)

7. Helpful Hints Label Personal Belongings (jackets, hats, etc.)
Water in water catcher
Dismissal – contact office s
Box Tops for Education
Birthdays (and invitations)
We collect paper towel tubes, used tennis balls
s…not always at computer. As you can imagine 22 first graders requires full attention at all times. 

8. Birthday wishes
Create a picture slideshow or poster to share with the class*
Wear slippers for the day
Guest reader!
Enjoy a birthday dance from your class – Just Dance
Bring in something that you are proud of and share it with the class
Pick a classroom spirit day in your honor! *Must be teacher-approved (prior class favorite)
Bring a stuffed animal to school
Any other ideas – me!
Open to ideas, and I think I’m pretty reasonable…as long as you aren’t bringing in a petting zoo. 

9. Specials Schedule
Monday – Gym* Tuesday – Art Wednesday - Music Thursday – Quest Friday – Library (book exchange every week)

10. Questioning & Understanding through Engineering, Science, & Technology
Click on the camera for a 1:34 video that gives an overview of QUEST. This will take you to the QUEST website. Be sure speakers are on and you play full screen.
If parents want more information on this program, they can visit the website at

11. Developing Strategic Readers
Reading
Developing Strategic Readers
Model, guide, practice
Shared Reading
Guided Reading
Literacy Centers to reinforce reading & writing
Read Alouds
Poetry
Word Wall

12. Reading What Can I Do at Home? Read aloud! Make predictions!
Practice retelling stories!
READ yourself!
Order books from Scholastic 

13. Writer’s Workshop Daily Journals
Goodbye Daily Edits…HELLO Mentor Sentences!
Handwriting
Author Creations at the Writing Center!
Being a Writer – study authors and how they write & use mentor texts to help us write like them
Writing center – explore different modes of writing independently

14. Developing Good Writing Habits

15. Everyday Math Hands-on Spiral Repeated exposure to skills
EM Games Online
XtraMath

16. Science Social Studies My School Weather Collecting & Examining Life
Solid, Liquid, Gas
My School
My Family
My Community

17. Science Fun Day Friday, April 21, 2017! Science experiments ALL DAY!
Parents run experiments in teams
Children rotate through
Our SFD Assembly – The Franklin Institute Traveling Science Show
Thank you to Home & School!
Sign up even if you MIGHT be
interested

18. Volunteers Needed!! Grade specific volunteers
Clerical help
Class specific volunteers
Checking Journals
Reading with students
Science Fun Day

19. Thank you for coming! Contact Me Class Webpage jmaiese@cbsd.org