First Grade Supply List
1 small supply box
1 pair blunt scissors
4 glue sticks
1 small bottle all-purpose glue
2 large pink erasers
3 large boxes of Kleenex
2 – 2 pocket folders
#2 pencils
2 small dry erase markers (blue or black)
24 count crayons
10 count markers
1 ruler with inches and centimeters
2 - 1 subject spiral notebook
l large pkg. of wet wipes
l box of Ziploc baggies (quart or gallon size)
1 backpack
1 tub Play Dough
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Classroom Discipline
In order to provide our students with the excellent educational climate they deserve, we will use the following behavior management plan. Every student has four crayons in a crayon box on our behavior board in the classroom. The first crayon is yellow, the next red, then blue, and the last crayon is black. The crayons will all be yellow every morning. If a child does not follow one of the rules or expected behaviors, the child's crayons will be pulled.
These are the classroom rules and expected behaviors:
1. Be responsible.
2. Respect yourself and others.
3. Choose to learn.
4. Allow the teacher to teach.
5. Do your personal best.
6. Observe all rules and procedures.
1st offense - Student will pull their yellow crayon. The consequence will be to lose 5 minutes of recess.
2nd offense- Student will pull their red crayon. The consequence will be to lose 10 minutes of recess.
3rd offense -. Student will pull their blue crayon. The consequence will be to lose 15 minutes of recess
4th offense – Student will pull their black crayon. The consequence will be to lose all of recess and a note will be sent home to parents.
***Should a child continue to display inappropriate behavior, a conference will be held with the principal, the teacher and the parent.
SEVERE CLAUSE: A severe clause occurs when there is a verbal and/or physical abuse to fellow student or teacher. If this occurs, the student is sent to the office to be handled by administration.
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Attendance
Good attendance is very important in first grade. New skills are learned daily and students can get behind very quickly if they have poor attendance. I will send home any work that your child needs to make up. Your child has three days for each day of absence to return the work. Please talk to me about a situation that might keep your child from completing the make-up work.
Since our teaching schedules remain the same each day, students who are continually tardy miss the same subject each day. This means that the student becomes weak in that academic area. Most students are at their peak learning in the morning and that is when we schedule our most important and intensive subjects. Please make sure your child is at school on time (no later than 8:30) so that they do not miss out on important learning.
The Hartville/Grovespring attendance policy states that more than 10 absences are excessive and can result in retention.
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Classroom Parties
Throughout the year we will be having three scheduled parties. The parties that we will have are the Fall Party, Christmas Party, and Valentine’s Day Party. It will be necessary to have parent assistance at each of the parties in order to insure a happy safe time for all of the children. All three of the parties will be in the afternoon. Please take time to consider if you can be available to assist in the classroom during any of the parties or of you would be able to help plan the events or help supply the healthy snacks. Any and all help will be welcomed and appreciated my both myself and the students.
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Class Procedures
Morning/Breakfast Procedures
1. Put coats and backpacks in assigned area. Do not stack your things on top of someone else's.
2. Put your Take Home Folder in the turn in box.
3. Clip breakfast and lunch clips to the chart.
4. Students eating breakfast get in line and wait to be dismissed. No cuts may be given.
5. No running in the cafeteria.
6. No trading or sharing of food is allowed.
7. When students have finished eating wait to be dismissed and then go to the classroom.
8. Students whom are not eating sit down and start morning work.
Procedures for Leaving the Classroom
1. Students may only leave the classroom to get a drink and go to the restroom during independent work
time.
2. Only one (1) boy and one (1) girl can leave the classroom to go to the restroom at one time.
3. If an emergency arises and a student must leave the room, waiting to interrupt the teacher is not
expected, the student should --GO-- explain later.
4. Remember the halls are quiet during class time. No talking or unnecessary noise. You must return to
class as quickly as possible.
Procedures for Lining Up
1. Clear everything off desks.
2. Pick up the area around desks.
3. Get any materials necessary for next activity.
4. Line up quickly and quietly facing the front of the line.
5. Do not talk to others in line.
Audience Procedures
1. Remain seated.
2. Stay quiet.
3. Focus undivided attention on the speaker (eyes, ears and heart).
4. Save questions until the speaker asks for them.
5. Only one question can be asked at a time.
6. Listen to the questions and answers of other students to prevent repeated questions.
Procedures for P.E. / Music
1. Going to and from P.E., Music, and Library is a quiet time.
2. Any arguments between students will be settled before returning to class.
3. Report all injuries to P.E., Music, or Library teacher and do not leave that class until your injuries are
tended to.
4. Return quickly and quietly to class.
Procedures for Lunch
1. When lining up in the cafeteria, students must be quiet and orderly – talk quietly.
2. After getting a lunch tray and milk, student will stop at the computer so that student's lunch card can be
scanned.
3. Students will sit in assigned seats for lunch. This eliminates hard feelings and misbehavior.
4. Students may talk quietly during lunch. If the noise level gets too loud, the students will be given a
warning. If the noise level continues to be loud or gets loud again, the students will not be able to talk
to their classmates until they are outside.
5. When students are finished eating, they should sit quietly until dismissed to dump their trays and
line up for recess.
Procedures for Recess
1. Students will be expected to promptly obey teacher on duty.
2. While on the playground, students will not engage in games that tend to cause injury or play in a
manner that is excessively rough.
3. Students will not deliberately (or play in such a way that could) cause tripping, piling on or make other
students fall.
4. Students will not play games on or around the playground equipment that creates an unsafe condition.
5. Students will not throw rocks, sticks or debris.
7. Students will not individually, or as a group, pick on other students.
9. Students will not have food or drinks on the playground.
10. Students will not walk up and down the slides.
11. Students will not stand on top of the monkey bars.
12. Students will remain in the view of the teacher at all times.
13. Students will use playground swings as they were designed to be used; i.e., no standing, double,
swinging, twisting swings, or jumping from swings.
14. Students will not participate in bullying; i.e., name calling, leaving other students out of play, making
threats of any kind.
Procedures for Bathroom
1. No playing in the bathroom.
2. No wasting toilet paper, soap, or paper towels.
3. Flush the toilet after each use.
4. Wash hands with soap each time a student goes to the bathroom.
5. Place all trash in the trashcan.
End of the Day Procedures
1. Clean up seating area and throw away all trash.
2. Get your backpack, lunchbox, etc. from the back of the room.
3. Get your Take Home folder and put it in your backpack.
4. When it is time for you to line up, put your chair on your desk and walk to the line.
5. Students being picked up by car will go out the south door (by the gym) and bus riders will walk
quietly to the bus line in front of the cafeteria and wait for the bus students to be dismissed.
Procedures for School Bus
1. The driver is in charge. Obey the driver promptly and cheerfully.
2. Sit in your seat when boarding bus and stay seated.
3. Wait until bus stops before leaving your seat to get off the bus.
4. Aisles must be kept clear at all times.
5. Talk quietly.
6. Absolute quiet is necessary when approaching a railroad crossing.
7. Radios, headsets, CD players, and electronic games are not permitted.
8. Students may not at any time extend hands, arms or heads out of the bus windows.
9. No profanity, cruel teasing or rude gestures are allowed.
10. Be courteous to each other and the driver.
11. Riders should assist in keeping the bus clean and free from trash.
12. Riders should go to the restroom before boarding the bus.
13. Do not throw objects out of bus windows.
14. No food, drinks, or gum on the bus.
Field Trip Procedures
1. Students will show responsible and appropriate behavior during the field trip.
2. Students will be respectful to all adults - teachers, parent helpers, guides, and instructors.
3. Students will follow all school procedures that apply to the field trip - such as lining up procedures,
audience procedures, etc.
4. Student will follow all bus procedures while on bus.
Substitute Procedures
1. Student will follow all classroom procedures.
2. Student will be respectful and cooperative.
3. When the teacher returns to class, each student will be asked about his/her behavior.
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First Grade Curriculum
Reading/Language Arts
We will use the Scott Foresman Reading series, which will incorporate all of the language arts skills - reading, phonics reinforcement, language and grammar skills, and handwriting. This program will include:
Foundations of Literacy
Phonics, Word Analysis, Spelling, Vocabulary, and Fluency
Comprehension
Language and Communication
Research and Study Skills
In addition to this program we will also be using the Accelerated Reader program which allows students to read books at their level and also gives them the freedom to chose books that they are interested in reading.
Handwriting
We will use the D'Nealian handwriting method. D'Nealian handwriting is a continuous-stroke method that allows children to write letters and words faster and easier than ball-and-stick methods. Most lower-case manuscript letters have the same form as their cursive counterpart, which makes the transition to cursive quick and easy. The emphasis on D'Nealian Handwriting is on legibility. This means the goal for children is to write something someone can read right away.
Phonics
We will be using the Scott Foresman Phonics program. This program provides a wide range of activities to practice and extend children’s phonemic awareness skills, phonics skills, and word study skills. The phonics lessons support the direct and systematic phonics instruction in Scott Foresman Reading.
Spelling
First grade spelling will once again be the Scott Foresman. The words will be sight words as well as words used in our phonics and reading lessons. Sight words are words that do not follow phonics rules and must be memorized. We work on sight words in class daily but some students will need extra practice at home to master these words.
Math
We will be using Harcourt Math in first grade. This math program is based on scientific research that focuses on effective learning process and instructional strategies that are essential for success in a wide range of learners. The program has a total of six units that will be covered during the course of the year. Each chapter will have Family Involvement Activities include an explanation letter, some Math vocabulary, family games and practice. This is the first year that we are using this program so it will be a leaning experience not only for the students, but for the parents and of course the teacher also. Thank you in advance for assisting your child with these activities.
Social Studies
We will use Neighborhoods Near and Far from Nystrom. We will learn about neighborhoods and the concept focus will be on places to live, places to work, places to work and places to play. We will use Maps, Globes, and Graphs to build students' confidence and mastery of practical geography skills. The Weekly Reader will also me a part of our Social Studies lessons as we learn about things such as holidays and celebrations.
Science
We will be using Teacher Created Materials Science Grade 1. The lessons in this program will incorporate basic science skills as well many other concepts. Some of the concepts we will be learning about are plants, animals, simple machines, weather, etc. We will also be using Weekly Reader as a means of enriching our Science lessons.
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