Welcome to Third Grade

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• Welcome to
• Open House
• 2015-2016
• Michelle Plumer
• First Grade Teacher
• .

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All About Ms. Plumer

• Graduated from Georgia Southern University
• Bachelors in Early Childhood Education
• Member of the Professional Association of Georgia
  Educators for two years
• Volunteer and raise money for Childrens Miracle
  Network

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Communication Information

• Daily Red Folders- Allows 2 way communication
• Please send all transportation changes/notes in
  here
• (this includes after school clubs)
• Daily Reading Log- 20 minutes per night.
• Specials Calendar- Posted on my blog every
  month.
• Please make note of PE days (TENNIS SHOES!)
• Blue Weekly Folder- Student work from the week
  sent home every Thursday.
• Please look through work, complete and return any
  unfinished papers.
• Chart with parents signature
• Behavior Sheet

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• Whats on the blog?
• Upcoming Dates
• Class and school wide news
• Curriculum overview for the year
• Specials Schedule
• http//stilllearning.typepad.com/1st_grade_ms_plum
  er/

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Classroom Schedule

• 710-745 Prepare for the day / Morning Work
• 745-815 Morning Announcements, Attendance,
  Number Talks
• 815-900 Specials
• 905-1005 Restroom / Prepare for Math /
• Daily Problem Solving/ RAP/ Guided Math
• 1005-1030 Daily 5 Round 1 Reading
• 1034-1104 LUNCH
• 1104-1115 Bathroom Break
• 1115-1145 Daily 5 Round 2 Grammar
• 1145-1215 Daily 5 Round 3 Word Study
• 1220-1245 Writers Workshop
• 1250-110 Social Interaction
• 115-140 Begin Integrated Studies
• (Science/ Social Studies/ Health)145-200
  Pack up and prepare to go home

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Our Class Expectations

• Looking eyes and walking feet
• Follow directions quickly.
• Keep your hands and feet to yourself.
• Listen while others are talking.
• Make smart choices and always do your best!

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Classroom Management

• -We are shelling out good behavior in first
  grade! Every student starts the day on the clip
  chart Outstanding. Behavior Management is
  based on the Love and Logic approach. (See
  letter. )
• -Positive reinforcement
• Treasure Box Students will earn Beach Bucks
  when they are caught being good. Students are
  allowed to go shopping every Thursday with
  their Beach Bucks.
• Weekly Behavior Sheets Tallies are taken to
  document behavior. Please sign and keep in your
  childs blue Weekly Work folder!
• Fun Friday Students who move their clip to
  Warning less than three times a week, will earn
  a FUN reward on Friday!

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Fun Friday

• Used as an incentive for always following
  directions and having respect.
• Games (your child will need to bring a game that
  fits in their backpack and that they are able to
  explain how to play to a friend).
• Movie
• Art
• Outside time
• Study hall for those who had difficulty with
  their behavior that week or that did not return
  their behavior chart.
• Students will bring home a behavior chart on
  Thursday.
• Review discuss with your child.
• Sign and return in their blue Weekly Work folder.
  

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Curriculum Standards

• They can be found on my blog under pages on the
  right side! ?

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What are the BIG ideas in Math?

• Beginning addition subtraction/ using
  strategies/extending addition subtraction
• Beginning place value/ place value
• Data
• Geometry / working with 2-D 3-D shapes
• Length
• Time to the hour and half hour

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Phonics

• Words Their Way- Word Sorts and activities
  (Phonics Focus)
• Making Words (Literacy Centers)
• Shared Reading
• Writers Workshop mini-lessons

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Reading

• Daily 5
• Students will work independently, with a
  partner, and in small groups to extend and
  reinforce aspects of the curriculum taught in
  integrated lessons
• CAFE
• Read orally, think-aloud, comprehension
  skills, model strategies (whole group with
  student participation)
• Guided Reading
• Direct instruction in skills/strategies to
  create student-sustained reading. Students will
  work on comprehension, retelling, and fluency
  skills.
• Students will practice comprehension by taking
  AR tests later in the year.

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Super Star Reading Program

• Children will read a new book nightly to or with
  an adult at home. This is required nightly as
  homework.
• Student will fill in your Reading Log in their
  Red Homework folder, and will color one star per
  book read.
• Goals
• 1st nine weeks 20 books (1 page front/back)
• 2nd nine weeks 30 books (1 page front/back, and
  1 side of another page)
• 3rd nine weeks 30 books
• 4th nine weeks 30 books
• If students turn in their Reading Logs filled
  in, they will earn a star for each page
  completed. If students reach their goal, they
  will be given a certificate and recognized at the
  First Grade Reading Ceremony. (Teachers and
  students only please)

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Read to Self
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What sets The Daily Five Apart?

• For Teachers.
• Deliver 3 5 whole group mini lessons each day
• Teach 3 4 small groups of children each day
• Confer with 3 6 individual students each day
• Hold all students accountable for eyes-on-text

• For Students
• Engaged in the act of reading and writing for
  extended amounts of time
• Receive focused instruction on building and
  maintaining independence
• Receive tailored instruction through whole group,
  small group, and/or individual conferring, by
  their skilled classroom teacher, each day

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Writing

• Handwriting- Zaner-Bloser Manuscript
• Daily 5 Work on Writing
• Shared Writing
• - Independent Writing
• - Writers Workshop
• Writing Genres (personal narrative, opinion,
  informational/narrative)

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Spelling

• Words Their Way Monthly Phonics Focus
• Phonemic Awareness identify picture names that
  begin with the same sound, isolate and say first
  sounds, categorize rhyming words, build words by
  substituting sounds
• Phonics sort pictures/words by initial sounds,
  ending sounds, consonant blends, digraphs, word
  families, vowel sounds
• Students will have Spelling Tests every Friday.

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Social Studies

• Our Earth Our Country global address,
  continents/oceans, landforms.
• American Heroes Benjamin Franklin, Thomas
  Jefferson, Lewis Clark with Sacajawea, Harriet
  Tubman, Theodore Roosevelt, George Washington
  Carver
• American Folktales Johnny Appleseed, Annie
  Oakley, Paul Bunyan, John Henry, Davy Crockett

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Science

• Weather seasons
• Water Cycle
• Magnets
• Sound
• Light shadows
• Plants (parts basic needs)
• Animals (basic needs compare/describe)

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First Grade Assessments

• Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA-Accuracy
  and comprehension)
• Running Records
• Sight Words (Lists sent home to work on at home
  and return when your child is ready to be
  tested.)
• Writing Rubrics
• Performance Tasks
• Primary Spelling Inventory
• Problem Solving
• Cognitive Abilities Test

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Leader in Me ProgramFollowing the 7 Habits of
Healthy Kids

• See the letter inside folder for an explanation
  of all 7 Habits.
• Leadership Notebooks (Track academic and
  behavioral goals)

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Grades and Rubric-Style Report Card

• 3 Exceeds Standards- applies and
  inferences beyond expectations
• 3 Meets standards- consistently and
  independently
• 2 Progressing toward meeting the standard
• 1 Limited or minimum progress toward meeting
  the standard
• Practice Work stickers/smiley
  faces/checkmarks/comments
• Graded Papers 3, 3, 2, 1
• Please be aware that standards are performance
  based. Children will be assessed in a variety of
  ways, which will include checklists, rubrics,
  teacher observation and paper/pencil tasks.

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Grades and Rubric-Styles Report Card (Behavior
Management)

• Learning Skills and Behaviors
• (Refer to Behavior Sheet)
• S Successful
• P Progressing
• N Needs Improvement

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Homework

• Homework will be sent home each night, Monday
  -Thursday.
• Students will read 20 minutes a night, and record
  it on their Reading Log. (Located in their red
  folder)
• Students need to practice math facts daily!
  (flash cards, math games, math websites, etc.)
• Students will work on Sight Words at home and at
  school.
• Homework should not take more than 30 minutes a
  night!
• Sign your childs agenda every night!

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Absence and Dismissal Policy

• Please send a note from home if there is an
  absence or change in dismissal. (Must be in
  writing, not email)
• Early dismissal? Please send in a note or e-mail
  notifying me of the time.
• There will be no dismissal changes after 145
  p.m.
• Regular attendance is vital to your childs
  success in first grade.
• Prompt arrival is also vital to your childs
  success.
• Changes in transportation must be in writing.

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Cafeteria Information

• Menus are available on the Still website.
• Prices
• -Student lunch - 2.15 Milk - 0.60
  
• Ice Cream 0.75
• -Adult - 3.25
• Lunches may be pre-paid.
• Breakfast served for 1.00
• Bring your lunch? Bring napkins plastic
  utensils!
• Birthdays Treats during lunch time.

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Money

• Any money coming to school for PTA/field trips
  (white envelope), lunch, ASP (brown/yellow
  envelope must be prepaid), etc. should be
  placed in an envelope labeled with the following
• - childs name
• - teacher
• - money amount
• purpose for the money
• Please place these in the Return to School
  pocket in your childs HW folder.

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Clinic/Medication Policies

• ALL medications must be sent to the clinic in the
  original container.
• Please send a note with all medications.
• Make sure you have filled out a clinic card.

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Communication

• Daily Homework Folder
• Weekly Folder
• Class Blog
• Agenda (Beginning Monday!)
• Phone Still Elementary [phone]
• Email michelle.plumer_at_cobbk12.org
• Remind
• Enter [phone]
• Class Code _at_missplume

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Events

• Fun Fall Centers
• Cultural Feast
• Authors Tea
• Field Day
• Dates to come.
• Testing COGAT (October)
• Conference Week Oct. 19-23 (A date and time will
  be sent home the week before, and you will sign
  the paper if the date and time works with your
  schedule.)

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Helpful Contacts

• Principal Grace Scarberry
• Assistant Principal Beth Lair
• Counselor Elizabeth Grant Alicia Pope
• Dont forget to join PTA!

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In the final analysis, it is not what you do for
your children, but what you taught them to do for
themselves that will make them successful human
beings.
Ann Landers