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Heritage Curriculum Night 1st Grade

• Mrs. Mergens – Room 107
• Mrs. Pace – Room 103
• Mrs. Plourde – Room 106
• Mrs. Tovey – Room 102

We are all incredibly excited to be working with your amazing children and feel blessed to have your kiddos in our classes!

Weekly sight word lists and activities will be sent home throughout the

• year. We will send home our Spelling

and Target Words practice on

• Monday. These are words we will

be working on in class, and the kids will be responsible to take a spelling test over on Friday. The kids will also bring home Math practice throughout the year. This will come home on different days through out the week depending on when we have taught that particular

• lesson. These pages are light purple.

In Bennington Public Schools, uses Bridges in Mathematics, a K–5 math program that will help us meet the new standards and make math meaningful and exciting. In first grade, students focus on addition and subtraction, place value, and shapes. Throughout the year they: *Add and subtract with numbers to 20, including with story problems *Become fluent with addition and subtraction facts to 10 *Count to 120 and learn about place value (ones, tens, hundreds) *Identify, sort, and draw shapes *Fit shapes together to make other shapes, solve puzzles, and fractions Bridges uses visual models to make mathematics accessible to all learners. One way that children approach math is through pictures. When you talk with your child about their math work, it might sometimes seem unfamiliar

• r different than you remember. But there are still many ways you can

help them explore math! By being open to learning and talking with your child, you can help your child develop strong skills and a love of math. Get more information and ideas about how to help your child at www.mathlearningcenter.org/families .

Using the Wonders series as the basis

• f our reading program, we offer

various components to our reading

• instruction. These components are:
• Teacher Read Aloud
• Shared Reading
• Common Texts
• Large Group Instruction
• Modeling of literature behaviors
• Small Group Instruction
• Spelling and Grammar practice

Keyboarding Without Tears will be implemented as the Keyboarding

• curriculum. Keyboarding instruction

will be introduced in Media and additional practice will be provided in the classroom.

We will be practicing Zaner-Bloser manuscript. This is taught directly and reinforced during daily work. We remind students to start at the top and work to the bottom. We also work on the correct posture and grip.

We use the Being a Writer

• curriculum. This curriculum is

focused on teaching the kids the writing process. We will be working

• n getting ideas, and telling more,

adding details. The students will write autobiographies, nonfiction,

• pinion writing and poetry.

Pearson/Scott Foresman Publishers All Together first grade Social Studies curriculum includes map skills and citizenship lessons, biographies and cultural experiences as well as units titled: * Time For School * In My Community * Work! Work! Work! * Our Earth, Our Resources * This Is Our Community * Our Country, Our World

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt- ScienceFusion , is a comprehensive, multimodal science program that provides all the digital tools teachers need to engage students in inquiry based learning. There are 10 units that meet the first grade state science standards. * How Scientists work * Technology All Around Us * Animals * Plants * Environments * Earth’s Resources * Weather and Seasons * Objects in the Sky * Forces and Energy

In First Grade we use portfolios as a way to show growth with your child. You will see the portfolio at both the fall and spring conferences, and then you will keep them when the year is over. In the portfolio you will the district assessments your child has

• completed. You will also find rubric

sheets for Written Language as well as 21st Century Skills.

The day will be separated by morning and afternoon. The day will restart every morning and every day after lunch/recess. Students will receive a ‘tally’ on the chart when a verbal reminder for a behavior choice has been given. When a student receives 3 tallies in the morning or afternoon, Tier One on the school referral form will be implemented. When a student receives 3 additional tallies in the morning or afternoon, Tier Two on the school referral form will be

• implemented. 1st grade also gives out Tickets and DWPs for students displaying

positive behaviors. Students can be referred to the office immediately for severe infractions. This included the Big Three noted in the school handbook. See Tier 3 on School Referral Form.

Bennington Public Schools has a safety standard protocol in place and as a district we practice with the students. We also practice Fire Drills and Severe Weather

• Drills. Your children’s

safety is our number

• ne priority and we

are prepared.