1. Tea and Talk with First Grade
Mrs. Horner, Mrs. Flowers, Miss Green, and
Mrs. Wunning

2. Welcome to Tea and Talk with the first grade team
Welcome to Tea and Talk with the first grade team! This morning's schedule:
8:00-8:15: Cover standards and topics of first grade
8:15-8:40: Breakout sessions in your child’s classroom regarding individual classroom rules, procedures, and expectations.

3. Please save all questions specific to your student for a conference which you can schedule with your child’s teacher.

4. Literacy •Beginning of year: C-D •Middle of year: G-H
•Benchmarks, according to mClass, are as follows:
•Beginning of year: C-D
•Middle of year: G-H
•End of year: I-J
•This year, writing has been removed from the mClass test and the oral comprehension questions have been made more challenging. Writing will still be given as a reference point for the classroom teacher
•First Grade makes the largest jump in mClass with an expected 6 levels of growth.

5. Literacy
Students are placed in reading groups based on TRC and DIBELS data
These groups do change during the year as scores change.
When students are not meeting with their teacher they are working in one of the following work stations:
Working on Writing
Reading to self
Reading to someone
Word work
Listening to reading

6. Let’s Compare-Literacy
Kindergarten- EOY
13 of 23 of Kindergarten standards begin: With prompting & support...
Other standards include:
Identify parts of book
Demonstrate understanding of print
Engage in group reading activities
Recognize common types of texts
Read high frequency words
Demonstrate understanding of spoken words
Reads at a level C/D (3 or 4 levels)
Sight words- 25
First Grade- End of 1st Quarter
0 of the 1st Quarter, First Grade standards begin: With prompting and support...
Only 2 of all 23 standards begin: With prompting & support- read poetry & informational texts (3rd & 4th quarters)
First Grade- EOY
Sight words- 100
TRC mClass- needs to make at least 6 levels of growth

7. Writing
•Students will be writing a variety of texts this year including: narrative (small moments), informational (All About & How-To), and opinion pieces.
•Objectives include: focus, organization, conventions and support, and elaboration.
•We currently are talking about narratives and small moments including an introduction, three events in chronological order, and a conclusion that includes a feeling.

8. Let’s Compare - Writing
Kindergarten- EOY
Narratives
Writes about a single event or several loosely linked events
Uses drawings, dictations and writing to tell what happened
Tells the order in which the events occured
Provides a reaction about what happened
First Grade- End of 1st Quarter
Narratives
Writes a narrative recounting 2 or more appropriately sequenced events focused on one topic
Includes temporal words (first, next, last) to signal event order
Includes details about what happened
Includes a topic sentence and closing sentence
Includes correct capitalization & punctuation

9. Math Students will learn how to express math in a variety of ways.
Ex. (using manipulatives, pictures, and writing.)
Students will be learning a variety of strategies, not necessarily memorizing.
Students typically need the most practice with comprehension of word problems.
We will cover:
Operations and algebraic thinking: problem solving; equality; unknown addend
Numbers and operations in base ten: tens and ones; comparing numbers; mentally find 10 more/less; two digit plus one digit addition
Measurement and Data: collecting, organizing and analyzing data with 3 categories; time to the hour and half hour
Geometry: defining & non-defining attributes; composite shapes; partitioning shapes
Money: identifying nickels, dimes & quarters; relate their value to pennies

10. First Grade - End of 1st Quarter
Let’s Compare - Math
Kindergarten- EOY
Problem solving- find the total within 10
Fluency within 5
Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities
Understand the last number said tells how many
First Grade - End of 1st Quarter
Problem Solving- Find the unknown addend within 20
Fluency within 10
Relationship between addition and subtraction
Understand that numbers contain other numbers and can be decomposed in different ways

11. Science
Earth in the Universe- features of the sky; observable changes in the moon
Force and motion- pushes and pulls; magnets
Earth systems, processes, and structures- Rocks & Earth Materials
Ecosystems- Needs of plants & animals; habitats of living things
•York is also a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) school. We have a STEM facilitator who works on projects with us pertaining to standards we are studying. These projects are in addition to school wide STEM projects and projects sent home by the grade level. These projects are done at school and in the classroom.
•We participate in grade level STEM challenges (these are mandatory).
•We participate in school wide STEM challenges (these are not mandatory but encouraged.)

12. Social Studies
I am a citizen of many communities (rules of the classroom, school, and the community)
•Our community celebrates (holidays and celebrations around the world)
•I can find my way around my community (maps and landforms; goods & services; supply & demand)
•We care for our community (reduce, reuse, recycle)

13. Standards Based Grading
Level 4- Student consistently demonstrates an in-depth understanding of the standards, concepts and skills taught during this quarter.
“Since, I can do/understand this. I can figure out new things”
Level 3- Student consistently demonstrates an understanding of the standards, concepts and skills taught during this quarter.
“I get it! I can do it well!”
Level 2- Student is approaching an understanding of the standards, concepts and skills taught during this quarter.
“I almost get it but I need some help.
Level 1- Student does not yet demonstrate an understanding of the standards, concepts and skills taught during this quarter.
“I don’t get it. I need help.”