Purefoy Paradise First Grade Curriculum Night

Shared Reading • Concepts of print• High frequency words• Punctuation• Oral expression• Letter-sound links and basic story structure• Beginning Comprehension

Strategies

Comprehension Strategies

• Connections to Text• Predicting• Fix-up strategies• Narrative text structure• Asking questions• Inferring• Creating sensory images• Determining the importance

of text

• Flexible grouping based on strengths

• Book levels• Decoding text• Fluency• Fluency/Comprehension Strategies

using a variety of text• Guided reading books will be sent

home every night. • Often, the same book is sent home

for multiple nights, as students are working on improving a specific skill such as fluency.

• The cost for a lost guided reading book is $10.

Handwriting•D’Nealian

Writing• Independent Writing

(Pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing)

• Connections between reading and writing

• Stages of writing• Six Trait Writing

• The goal of spelling instruction is to develop independence, fluency, and accuracy in writing.

• Students in 1st grade do not begin taking formal spelling tests until the 2nd nine weeks.

• Regular spelling lists vs. challenge spelling lists will be based on Pre-test on Mondays.

• Spelling strategies using at least two word families per week along with sight words.

• Manipulative based• Place Value• Fractions• Geometry• Time• Double Digits• Skip Counting• Story Problems• Measurement• Money• Building Vocabulary

• Science Journals• Weather (daily)• Rocks and soils• Oceans (Dallas Aquarium)• Plants (cycle and parts of a bean plant)• Life Cycle (butterfly)• Living/Nonliving Organisms• Building Vocabulary• Magnets• Day and Night• Light and Sound Energy

• Community Citizenship Skills• State symbols• Holidays, Goods and Services• Maps/Landforms• Cardinal Directions• Citizenship• Cultures/Beliefs/Customs/Folktales• Historical figures• Economics (needs and wants)• Building Vocabulary• Voting• Jobs• Government• U.S.

Homework is an integral part of the learning process to support, enrich, or reinforce topics covered in class.

• PARTNERSHIP-parents and teachers working together

• READING-nightly reading of guided reading book and completing a response in guided reading journal

• SPELLING-Optional brief spelling activities to practice the spelling chunks of the week available on website

• Academic checklists will reflect a child’s academic performance and mastery of the TEKS.

• Academic Checklist Dates: – Oct. 28, Jan. 20, Mar. 31, Jun.

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• Regular school attendance is essential for students to make the most of their education.

• Students must be present for 90% of the school year. All absences and tardies, both excused and unexcused, count against the 90% attendance rule.

• When students are sick or out, a written note is required. The absence will be unexcused if a parent/guardian fails to provide a note within 3 days of the absence.

• Calling to let us know that a student will be absent is great, but all absences must be followed up with a note.

• Students may be retained based on attendance records.

• The tardy bell rings and the security door is shut at 8:00 am.

• Students arriving after 8:00 must get a tardy slip from the front office.

• If a student is tardy 10 or more times in a 9 month period a “failure to attend school” action will be filed with a judge.

Our Purefoy Promise is to choose the me I want to be, by

being SAFE everyday.

I will Show respect, Act responsibly,

Focus on learning and Expect the best.

• School wide initiative to promote consistent expectations.

• Hands to Your Side• All Eyes to Front• Lips Sealed• Low Speed

• School wide initiative to promote consistent expectations.

• Low Voices• Use your manners• No sharing food• Clean up after yourself• Hands raised for permission to get out

of seat

7:50-8:00 ~ Pick Up in Café/Unpack7:50-8:00 ~ Pick Up in Café/Unpack8:05-8:15 ~ Announcements/Morning Work8:05-8:15 ~ Announcements/Morning Work8:15-8:45 ~ I & E with Daily 5/Stations8:15-8:45 ~ I & E with Daily 5/Stations8:45-9:15 ~ Calendar Math8:45-9:15 ~ Calendar Math9:15-9:45 ~ Handwriting, Grammar, Spelling & 9:15-9:45 ~ Handwriting, Grammar, Spelling &

PhonicsPhonics9:45-10:30 ~ CAMP9:45-10:30 ~ CAMP10:30-10:45 ~ Snack/Read-Aloud10:30-10:45 ~ Snack/Read-Aloud10:45-11:15 ~ Science10:45-11:15 ~ Science11:15-12:00 ~ Math11:15-12:00 ~ Math12:00-12:30 ~ LUNCH12:00-12:30 ~ LUNCH12:30-1:00 ~ RECESS12:30-1:00 ~ RECESS1:00-2:10 ~ Reader’s Workshop, Guided Reading, 1:00-2:10 ~ Reader’s Workshop, Guided Reading,

S.S.S.S.2:10-2:50 ~ Writer's Workshop2:10-2:50 ~ Writer's Workshop2:50-3:00 ~ Reflection Time/Pack-Up2:50-3:00 ~ Reflection Time/Pack-Up3:00 ~ Release for Dismissal3:00 ~ Release for Dismissal

•Library time is Friday at 1:00-1:30

•If you would like to volunteer please contact the volunteer coordinator.

Cindy Badoncindybadon@yahoo.comLog onto www.lotsofhelpinghands.com

•Sign up for parent/teacher conferences on Oct. 11th 10am-6pm

CommunicationCommunicationConference: 9:45-10:30

Before School 7:30-7:50

After School: 3:15- 3:30

Ms. Davidson Mrs. Bonn(469) 633-3891 (469) 633-3890davidsca@friscoisd.org bonnk@friscoisd.orgMrs. Carlson Mrs. Arterburn(469) 633-3892 (469) 633-3887carlsona@friscoisd.org

arterbuc@friscoisd.orgMiss Myers Miss Winkler(469) 633-3889 (469) 633-3888myersb@friscoisd.org winklert@friscoisd.org

Mrs. Atkins(469) 633-3876

atkinsf@friscoisd.org