Welcome to Back to School Night Kindergarten 2004 Mrs. Bamberger

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Welcome to
First Grade Mrs. Bamberger Room 208
Levittowns Mission Statement Success for Every
Student
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A little about Mrs. Bamberger

• Been teaching in Levittown since September 2001.
• Received my Masters in Education from C.W. Post.
• Received my Bachelors in International Business
  from Hofstra.
• Married to Mr. Bamberger and have two amazing
  little girls, Emily and Juliana.

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Goals for Students

• Develop a Love of Learning
• Become Risk Takers
• Learn from our Mistakes.
• Be positiveI think I can!
• Become more independent.
• Have fun
• Feel Safe
• Enjoy School
• Make New Friends
• And of course, become critical thinkers, readers,
  writers, scientists, and learn all they can while
  in 1st grade?!!!

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First Grade Super Stars are

• Prepared for school
• Respectful to self, others, and property.
• Do their first grade best.
• Good listeners
• Here is my marking system for classwork
• Super
• ? Good Job
• ? OKbut is this
• your best work??I
• know you can do better!

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Specials

• Students will attend specials daily.
• In addition to Art, Gym, Music, and Literacy, we
  will also attend
• Library Every Monday, students will be allowed
  to take out books. Books should be returned to
  school each week.
• Computers We will visit the lab each week.
  Students will use programs such as Word, KidPix,
  Kidspiration, Tumblebooks, and Starfall. We will
  focus on keyboarding skills throughout the year.

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Stay Connected

• Please check your childs Green Dot notebook
  daily. I will list reminders for the week at the
  top of each homework sheet.
• Check my BLOG regularly by visiting my website at
  
• http//sites.levittownschools.com/
  cbamberger/SitePages/Home.aspx
• I will post our classroom news and happenings on
  a regular basis.
• At times I will also post photos of students
  taken during special class events.

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1st Grade Curriculum

• Language Arts
• Fundations
• Open Court
• Reading (Shared, Guided, Read-Alouds)
• Mondo Leveled Readers
• Spelling (In Oct.)
• Grammar (In Jan.)
• Daily Language (In Jan.)
• Daily Reading Comprehension (In Jan.)
• Journal Writing
• Writing Process (plan, draft, revise, publish)
• Math
• Envisions Aligned with the Common Core
• Count to the 100th day(1s,10s, 100s)
• Hands On Manipulatives
• Timed Addition and Subtraction Tests

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1st Grade Curriculum

• Social Studies
• Daily Geography Map Skills
• Our Community
• Holidays
• Current Events
• Cultures
• Citizenship
• Science
• Planting
• Living or Non-Living
• Seasons
• Life Cycles

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Parent Teacher Conferences

• Conferences
• Please sign-up the back table before you leave.
• Post-it Notes are on the back table so you can
  write down your time and take it with you.
• Dont worryI will send you a reminder.
• Conference Dates are
• October 25 (1245 to 300)
• October 29 (200 to 745)
• Progress Reports
• They will be sent out 3 times a year.
• December
• April
• June

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Parent Volunteers

• Our class moms for this year are
• Mrs. Diez
• Mrs. Kleinfeldt
• Thank you to all those who volunteered.
• There will be opportunities for you to
• assist the class moms at the parties.
• Be sure to fill out release form so class list
  can be
• given to class moms and a buddy list sent out to
• classmates.
• Mystery Readers
• Each week, parents are invited to
• volunteer to be a mystery reader for our
• class. Information will be sent home in
• October. It is a lot of fun!!!
• Field Trips
• We will go on 2 trips this year. One in the
  fall and one in the spring.

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Birthday and Holiday Celebrations

• We will celebrate your childs birthday in class
  in you would like.
• Please send in individual snacks.
• I will send you a letter in advance letting you
  know the date that your child will be
  celebrating.
• As per our school policy.NO GOODY BAGS please.

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Before you go

• Write a message for your child and place it in
  their mailbox.
• Sign up for Parent Teacher Conferences.
• Fill out release form for class moms and buddy
  list.
• Take your childs packet.
• Fill out If your child is absent form for buddy
  system.

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Thank you for coming...

• I am looking forward to an exciting and
  successful school year!