Jim Ned CISD

Things To Know About 1st Grade

Class Day

School begins at 7:50am and ends at 3:20pm. Buses will leave the campus at 3:20pm. If you are picking your child up, please stay in your car and meet us in the front of the school at 3:20pm. If for some reason your child occasionally will or will not ride the bus, PLEASE SEND A NOTE in your child's homework baggie or send me a text in the Remind app before the end of the day. Messages recieved at loading/dismissal time are often missed! Letting us know sooner rather than later will save us all lots of time and worry. Thanks!

Snacks
Since it is a long time from lunch until these little ones get home; we will have snack time in the afternoon. We encourage you to send 22 individually wrapped snacks for our hungry firsties at the beginning of each month. You are welcome to send treats on your child’s birthday!

Cooking

Cooking is a major part of our curriculum and will usually be eaten during snack time. In the first few weeks we will be snacking on "I Think I Can Train" cookies," Chicka-Chicka Boom Boom Trees" and "Brown Bear Biscuits". Please send $5.00 each six weeks or $30.00 for the year to help cover these “cooking curriculum” expenses. Checks must be made payable to Melissa Gibbs.

Meals

Lunch is from 11:15-11:45. Feel free to come eat lunch with us! Just send a note or call the school so you can be included in the lunch count if you are needing a tray from the cafeteria. Lunch is $3.00 for students and $3.75 for adults. Breakfast will be served each morning for $1.00. The lunch program is computerized, so it's a good idea to pay for a week/month at a time. You are welcome to send cash or checks to pay toward your child's lunch account, but PLEASE remember to label it with your child's name and that it is for their lunch account.

Jim Ned is Online
Check out our Jim Ned web page at jimned.region14.net for district and campus information. Our class web page address is: jimned.region14.net/webs/melgibbs/home.htm These sites provide school calendars, lunch menus, class calendars, etc...

FIRST GRADE FORUM...coming in September

*Welcome-working together (parent/teacher) will make a difference, parental interest shows how important education is to your child. The educational emphasis needs to begin NOW!
*Friday Folders-please sign and go over your child’s work TOGETHER!
*Absences will result in make-up work and most of which will be done here at school during tutoring time to ensure teacher preferred instruction. If you need to make appointments for your child; the afternoon is always best. Our Reading/Language Arts and Math instruction is all before lunch.
* Cooking $$ is one way we choose to enrich instruction and it’s usually your child’s favorite part of the week. Thanks for those of you that have already paid.
*Volunteers are desperately needed. Please send a note listing your availability and we will work out a schedule accordingly.
* Discipline plan-- If there is a note in your child’s homework bag please sign and return it so we both know you saw it.

MATH
1. Building a foundation –--slow start = more meaning, better understanding
2. Goal is to build a complete sense of numbers, groups of ten, looking for a number pattern, and problem solving skills.
3. Many manipulatives (e.g. more, fewer, greater, less, addition, subtraction, shapes, patterns, time, money, place value, etc) and supplemental computer programs—Symphony Math and Xtra Math
4. Teaching tools (e.g. touch math, number line, songs, fact flashcards, addition to learn subtraction)
5. Critical thinking skills (brainwork, problem solving, story problems, mental math).

READING/LANGUAGE ARTS
1. Building a foundation – slow start: = better comprehension skills and working independently (17 books for the year and 60+leveled readers)
2. Sight Reading 20% of learners and Phonetic Readers 80% **Sight – lightning words (limited to approx 200 words, a great start, a must for the tricky words and most commonly used words for fluency and automaticity (LIGHTNING WORD FLASHCARDS) * Reading finger * Echo Reading *Choral Reading * Reading Folder (songs, stories, poems and I Can Read Sheet)
3. Phonics (includes phonemic awareness skills (auditory sounds) and phonetic skills(sounds relate to print) *over learn letter patterns and sounds to equip those at risk for Dyslexia and other reading difficulties *Supplemental computer programs: Lexia and iStation * grandmother vowel short sounds, peanut butter and jelly patters, layer cake patters, bossy R, etc * Spelling words follow phonics lesson weekly with cumulative review *Combine language skills (e.g. grammar lessons, capitalization, punctuation, including Journal for written expression ) * Monthly Reading Goal of 20 books (sponsors needed)and Accelerated Reading comprehension program including a weekly test of the story of the week. Reading Log signature is a must….you may include other books read too.

Assessments
Acadience Reading/language and math assessments are administered at the beginning, middle and end of the year for all students. Other assessments our campus has chosen to use beginning, middle, and end of year are CBM (math), Phono-Graphix (phonemic and phonic skills) and the End of Year test on Reading and Math curriculum.

Intervention Strategies

Mrs. Horne Early Bird Reading Lab 7:30-7:50 am, Small Group/Chromebook Lab 1:15-1:45 pm

Daily Tutoring with classroom teacher 2:20-3:10.

Paraprofessional pulls students individually for fluency, phonics decoding and comprehension skills using “Reading for All Learners”

A paraprofessional will be pulling students needing Math Intervention strategies daily as well.