Transcript Curriculum Night

1st & 2nd Grade
Curriculum Night Agenda
Welcome
Board Presentation, FEED, PTO
Principal’s Message
Social Curriculum
Science/Social Studies Curriculum
Math Curriculum
Literacy Curriculum
Fundations Curriculum
Assessments
Save the date: October 21, 2014
6:30- 7:30 pm
The Unified Arts Experience
An opportunity to meet the unified
arts teachers, visit the classrooms, and
learn about each program through
hands on activities.
SCS FEED
Food Education Every Day
SCS FEED is a group of parents,
faculty and administrators united to
• Encourage healthy food choices
• Drive an awareness of where our
food comes from
• Promote understanding of how
our food choices affect our
bodies, the environment and our
community
* Part of a state program run as a
partnership of two VT non-profits: NOFA-VT
and Shelburne Farms
FEED Initiatives Focus In 3 C’s
• Classrooms (e.g., food-focused
curriculum activities, guest
speakers, field trips)
• Cafeteria (e.g., Taste Tests,
veggies from SCS Gardens)
• Community (e.g., New Village
Farm, Shelburne Farms, Wake
Robin)
SCS Gardens
• Planted and maintained by
students/teachers during the
school year and SCS families
(and Part 2 students) during
summer!
• Veggies are used in the cafeteria
for lunch and in taste tests
• SCS FEED’s garden coordinator:
Amanda Gustafson
Interested? Join Us!
Sign up with your contact info on
the sheet left with your child’s
teacher
Like us on Facebook: Search for SCS
Feed
Direct questions to SCS FEED’s
coordinator:
Erica Frey-Delaportas
802-489-5976
[email protected]
PTO
*The PTO has several functions – the most important of
which is to help foster a sense of school community.
*Be a voice for your team! This year we are asking each
team to send at least one parent to our monthly meetings
*WHAT DOES PTO DO?
• Raise money with fundraisers:
• Direct Donation, Gift Wrap Sale, Red Barn goodies,
and Jogathon
• Grants $$ back to school
• Organizes school-community (NON- fundraising)
events
• Puts together school directory
*Gift Wrap –remember that 80% of the profit goes directly
back to your team. Please participate at whatever level you are
comfortable.
Math Fact Fluency
John Madden
https://docs.google.com/a/cssu.org/document/d/1GZBIjtU02pyqmCoM1wxhugIGo
8CV108EEbh-BqyIzF8/edit
Pati Beaumont
SCS Co-Principal
https://docs.google.com/a/cssu.org/presentation/d/1cx4YZlq3g5oMa
DmnZ49rKUC9KTyRJ95NeunwNryCmrE/edit#slide=id.g3b3824e53
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Katie Tyler
Guidance Counselour
https://docs.google.com/a/cssu.org/presentation/d/1knQ7OWkMZiXPRm1gyXEYhs7g
QBPNi-I76XziGuPWVrI/edit#slide=id.g3b986b43f_059
Responsive Classroom
Guiding Principles
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Social Curriculum
How Children Learn
Maximize Cognitive Growth
Set of Social Skills
Understanding and Knowing the Children
Families As Partners
Adult Impact
Science and NGSS
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a strong focus on
inquiry, topics include but are
not limited to:
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Plants/Animals (life
cycles/habitats)
Changes in the Earth
Moon and Stars
Force and Motion
States of Matter
STEM
Science is interwoven through:
 Integration
into larger units
 Smaller isolated units
 District wide on demand science tasks
 Observational recording and inquiry built
into our Bridges math program
 Hands on Nature
 Informational text reading/writing
embedded into the Common Core
 Integrated technology
The Social Sciences:
 Approached
in a similar fashion to Science Units,
the social sciences are embedded in larger units
or year long studies, as well as smaller units,
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Citizenship (Classroom to Global, Digital)
Long Ago and Today
Physical Geography
Cultural Geography
 Vertically
aligned with future grades to deepen
and extend the learning.
Math Curriculum
• NCTM Standards
• Aligned with Common Core Math Standards
• Best Practices in Mathematics
Strands
•Operations and
Algebraic thinking
•Number &
Operations in Base 10
•Geometry
•Measurement & Data
Bridges Math Program:
•Uses extensive and careful visual
models.
•Uses consistent attention to both basic
skills and conceptual understanding.
•Number Corner
BEST PRACTICES IN TEACHING
MATHEMATICS
• Research proven teaching methods for promoting
problem solving, invention, discourse, inquiry,
challenge, and achievement by all students.
• Teaching practices, and materials that foster:
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Student understanding, invention and sense making
A productive classroom culture
Worthwhile mathematical tasks
Deepen teacher content knowledge
• Enhances mathematics lessons/tasks to maximize
learning
Habits of Mind
Habits of Interaction
Mathematical Practices Across Grade Levels
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Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
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Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
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Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
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Model with mathematics.
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Use appropriate tools strategically.
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Attend to precision.
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Look for and make use of structure.
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Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
Bridges Grade 1
Critical Areas of Study
1 Developing an understanding of
addition, subtraction,
and strategies for addition and
subtraction within 20
2 Developing an understanding of
whole number
relationships and place value, including
grouping in
tens and ones
3 Developing an understanding of
linear measurement
and measuring lengths as iterating
length units
4 Reasoning about attributes of, and
composing and
decomposing geometric shapes
Units Covered
Unit 1
Numbers All Around Us
Unit 2
Developing Strategies with Dice &
Dominoes
Unit 3
Adding, Subtracting, Counting &
Comparing
Unit 4
Leapfrogs on the Number Line
Unit 5
Geometry
Unit 6
Figure the Facts with Penguins
Unit 7
One Hundred & Beyond
Unit 8
Changes, Changes
Bridges Grade 2
Critical Areas of
Study
1 Extending understanding
of base-ten notation
2 Building fluency with
addition and subtraction
3 Using standard units of
measure
4 Describing and analyzing
shapes
Units Covered
Unit 1
Figure the Facts
Unit 2
Place Value & Measurement with Jack’s Beanstalks
Unit 3
Addition & Subtraction Within One Hundred
Unit 4
Measurement
Unit 5
Place Value to One Thousand
Unit 6
Geometry
Unit 7
Measurement, Fractions & Multi-Digit
Computation
with Hungry Ants
Unit 8
Measurement, Data & Multi-Digit Computation
with Marble Rolls
Components of a Balanced
Reading Program
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Read Aloud
Shared Reading
Whole Group Instruction
Small Group Instruction
Word Study
Partner and Independent Reading
Writing
• First and Second Graders participate in the writing
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Planning
Writing
Conferencing
Revising/editing
Publishing
• Writer’s Workshop
• Mini lesson
• Writing and conferring
• Sharing
Writing
• Writing Genres
• Informational/
explanatory
• Opinion
• Narrative
• Conventions
• Handwriting
• sentence structure
• phonetic spelling
• Other Types of Writing
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Poetry
Letters
Journal Entries
Responses to Text
• letter formation
• short vowel sounds
• blends (st, bl, mp) and
digraphs (sh, ch, th, wh)
• spelling rules (f, l, s)
• base word and suffix s (mat s)
• glued sounds (am, an, ink, ank, ung)
• open and closed syllables (me, ten)
• magic e (pine, same)
• trick words
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review 1st grade concepts
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base words and more suffixes
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vowel teams (oi, oy, ea, ee)
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trick words
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6 syllable types
• closed syllable
• vowel consonant-e
• open syllable
• r-controlled syllable
• double vowel syllable
• consonant –le syllable
Literacy
• BAS (Baseline Assessment System)
• Fundations unit tests
• On-Demand Writing
Math
• Bridges assessments
• Fact fluency
Science
• Inquiry based assessment
Informal / On-going
• Observations
• Student conferences
• Writing samples
• Anecdotal notes
• Exit cards
The End
Thank you for
coming!