Jim Ned CISD

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 call the office before 2:45. Messages received 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 snack for our basket once a month. You are welcome to send treats on your child’s birthday!

STEM

Throughout the year we will be doing many STEM activities. Students learn through successes and failures as they build and construct. I will send out a list of items needed that you can purchase for our class or just find around your house.

FIRST GRADE FORUM...happening soon!

*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.
*Volunteers are still needed even though you cannot come to the school. I have books that need to be taped due to lots of reading.
* 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— Prodigy
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

2. Sight Reading 20% of learners and Phonetic Readers 80% * Reading finger * Echo Reading *Choral Reading * Reading Folder (songs, stories and poems)

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:A-Z, IREAD and TEACHYOURMONSTERTOREAD * Spelling words follow phonics lesson weekly with cumulative review *Combine language skills (e.g. grammar lessons, capitalization, punctuation, including Journal for written expression )