1st Grade Meet The Teacher Night

Miss Van Duyne’s 1st grade English Classroom

Contact Information

Room Number: 139

Email:

School Phone: 303-446-7100 ext. 139

Message me on Class Dojo or email

Homework

Help your child develop home study skills by setting aside a time each night to do homework. Reinforce the idea that daily homework is an important part of their job as a student. Homework will be a weekly BINGO sheet. We are sending home one copy of the homework page in a sheet protector so you can reuse it at home. It is not required to be turned into the teacher. If you lose track of the page, please see the Homework section of my teacher website for a new one.

Behavior

This year, our school is continuing our school wide behavior system. It encourages students to be kind, be safe, and be ready to learn. Please reinforce with your children that consequence come as a result of the choice THEY make. Thus, consequences can be positive or negative. We are striving to have many more positive consequences than negative. Please see the behavior matrix in the Rules section of my website for more details.

Communication

Email is my main source of communication. I will check my email daily so if you want to get ahold of me or message me this is the easiest way. I also send a lot of messages and pictures through Class Dojo. I will also put all homework resources, helpful information such as websites or important information about my classes on my teacher website. Please feel free to call, email, or drop a note at any time. I look forward to meeting and talking with each of you.

Absences and Tardies

Students are allowed to enter the building at 7:45 am, they should go right to their am classroom.School starts promptly at 8:00 am. Anytime your child is tardy or leaves school early, he or she misses critical instruction. If your child needs to be absent, please notify the front office. If the student will miss an extended amount of time, please notify me as well.

Daily Schedule

8:00-10:45 / AM English Literacy
10:45-11:30 / Lunch and Recess
11:30-11:45 / AM English Literacy
11:45-1:30 / PM English Literacy
2:00-2:30 / Specials
2:30 -3:15 / PM English Literacy

First Grade Curriculum

●Reading: We focus on the main components of reading including decoding skills, vocabulary building and comprehension skills. We will teach elements of fictional reading including story structure elements. We will teach elements of nonfiction reading (informational) including text features and how to use them to better understand the informational text.

●Writing: We will be teaching basic writing skills according to the Common Core standards as well as 3 main genres of writing. The genres are narrative, explanatory/informational and opinion.

●Social Studies: We will teach aspects of social studies including history, geography, economics and civics. Topics include family and cultural traditions, interactions between groups and communities, creating short term financial goals and notable people, places, holidays and patriotic symbols.

●Math: We will be teaching addition, subtraction, counting to 120, place value, measurement, telling time, representing and interpreting data and attributes and parts of shapes.

●Science: We will be exploring many topics including states of matter (liquid, gas, solid), characteristics of living/non living organisms and the properties of earth’s materials.

Parent Expectations

  • Help your child to practice their skills from school by completing the homework BINGO weekly. The number one factor for student success in school is the amount of time parents spend reading with children, so always feel free to add extra reading time into your child’s after school activities.
  • Celebrate all successes, big or small. Focus on the positive!
  • Encourage joy and excitement for learning all year. Children pick up on the feelings and beliefs of parents. Be positive!
  • Support classroom activities, philosophy, and curriculum.
  • Please contact me with any issues, big or small so we can fix them!

Miss Van Duyne’sWishlist

Here are some things that I would like to have to create a better learning environment for your students:

-20 Magazine holders (this is to store each students supplies, I currently have black and clear plastic ones)

-60 pencil bags with a transparent window

-Pencils, pre-sharpened is especially helpful

-Germ-X Antibacterial hand wipes

-Dividers to separate our subjects in binders

-White Cardstock

-Colored printer paper, any color

-Clear contact paper (to protect and repair books)

-Rewards for the treasure box (Slinkys, pens, bubbles, decorative pencils, erasers, small toys etc.)

-Your old Walkman CD or tape players for individual listening centers

-Your unused/functional iPods, iPads, Nooks, Kindles, Tablets or laptops for listening center/technology center

-Books with CD or tapes for listening center

-A one year subscription to Reading Rainbow Skybrary (follow the link to check it out) for literacy focused computer center activities

I will be updating this list throughout the school year on my website so if you are feeling generous please keep an eye out for it! If you are able to donate or get any of these things for our classroom it would be much appreciated!

Thank you!

Miss Van Duyne