Pre-Open House
First Grade
Austin Road Elementary School
Mrs. Reid
Ms. Stroud
Mr. Sellers
Welcome
Agenda:
Math Units
Daily Math Practices
Standards of Mathematical Practice
Language Arts, Reading and Writing
Science/Social Studies
Grading Scale
Daily Homework
A few Reminders…
Questions?
Math Units
Unit 1: Creating Routines and Using Data
Unit 2: Developing Base Ten Number Sense
Unit 3: Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Unit 4: Sorting, Comparing, and Ordering
Unit 5: Understanding Place Value
Unit 6: Understanding Shapes and Fractions
** At the beginning of each unit, you will receive a parent letter explaining in
detail the specific standards that will be taught during each unit **
Daily Math Practices
• Number Talks – help students become proficient in math
The goals are:
1. Developing number sense
2. Developing fluency with small numbers
3. Making Tens
Number talks are a great way for students to use mental math to solve problems,
explain their thinking, and have mathematical debates. A Number Talk is a short,
ongoing daily routine that provides students with meaningful ongoing practice with
computation.
• Math Centers- provide an opportunity for small group instruction and
differentiation
• Journaling
Standards of Mathematical Practices
Students are expected to:
1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning
of others.
4. Model with mathematics.
5. Use appropriate tools strategically.
6. Attend to precision.
7. Look for and make use of structure.
8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
English Language Arts
In English Language Arts, there are three major
comprehension objectives:
• Reading Foundational (print concepts,
phonological awareness, phonics & word
recognition, fluency)
• Conventions of Standard English
(grammar skills: nouns, verbs, adjectives,
sentence structure, etc.
• Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
(multiple meaning words, using context
clues, shades of meaning,
prefixes/suffixes, etc.
Grade Level Reading Expectations
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
D/E
E
F/G
G
H
H
I
I
J
J
•This is a table for monitoring progress of Instructional Reading Level and growth.
Instructional level means it can be read with instructional support. Henry County
Schools are using Fountas & Pinnell to monitor and track your child’s reading
growth. This table only shows First grade levels. Students will be assessed a
minimum of 3 times a year. Extra support in weak areas will be given if he/she is
below grade level expectations as well as progress monitoring assessments.
How can you help at home?
• Have your child to read daily for 15 minutes
• As your child is reading, ask them various questions to monitor comprehension
and have them to retell/summarize what they’ve read
• Practice reading the weekly sight words
• Model fluency sounds like
Writing
Writing is a focus area and will be
integrated into all content areas !!!
There are 3 writing genres the students will
focus on during the writing block:
• Narrative
• Opinion
• Informative/Explanatory
Science Units
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Weather and Seasons
Plants and Animals
Water
Sound
Light and Shadows
Magnets
Social Studies Units
• Historical Understandings
(Read about and describe the life of historical figures and
American Folktales)
• Geographic Understandings
(Map Skills: identifying your city, state, county, continents,
oceans, landforms)
• Government/Civics
(Positive Character Traits and Patriotic Words)
• Economics
(Goods/Services, Making Choices, Producers/Consumers)
Grading Scale
Level 1 (Emerging): Limited or minimum progress
toward achievement of the standard
Level 2 (Progressing): Progressing toward achievement
of the standard
Level 3 (Meets): Consistently and independently
achieves the standard
Level 4 (Exceeds): Consistently and independently
achieves the standard with evidence of exceeding
the standard
Homework
• Monday-Thursday students will receive daily
math and reading homework
•Each Wednesday they will receive a writing
prompt
•Homework is NOT counted as a grade
•Used to reinforce and review the standards that
we are working on in class
•Due Friday of each week
• Please send a healthy daily snack to school
with your child.
• On P.E. days, the students are asked to wear
sneakers
• ALL transportation changes MUST BE
HANDWRITTEN
• Please check your child’s Take Home Folder
and initial the agendas daily
Questions
Thank you for coming!