Classroom Teacher-Stephanie Colvin
Site Principal-Lindy Risenhoover
Building Principal-Lynette Talkington

• Love learning & coming to school each day!
• Be responsible
• Compassionate towards others
• Independent individuals
• Curious learners
• Express creativity

• Support and Nurture
• Develop talents
• Meet Individual Needs
• Challenge/Restructure
• Stay connected to home
• Build a sense of community and belonging

THE COMPREHENSION TOOLKIT
*Focuses on “Reading as Thinking”
*Builds key thinking strategies for increased comprehension
*Supports time for shared reading, guided reading groups, small groups, independent reading, and collaborative discussions.
*Students read a variety of genres.
*Matches students with “just right” reading texts .

Fountas & Pinnell Word Study
*Builds word knowledge through instruction in phonics, spelling patterns, high frequency word knowledge, vocabulary development, and wordsolving actions.

DAILY 4
*Integrate reading and writing activities.
*Participate in lessons on phonics and word study skills.
*Participate in lessons on using many reading strategies.
*Listen to and respond to good literature.
*Select material at the appropriate level.
Read to Self
Read to Someone
Word Work
Listen to Reading

Write Source
Process of writing
Forms of writing
Word study
Additional Resources and Experiences:
Personal narratives
Descriptive writing
Poetry
Journal writing
Writer’s Workshop and Writing Crafts
Story writing
Friendly letters
Making their own books

EVERYDAY MATHEMATICS
The district has been on a three-year journey in aligning to the
Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (also known as the Oklahoma Academic Standards).
*Emphasizes conceptual understanding while building a mastery of basic skills.
*Relates math to real life situations.
*Hands-on activities
*Practice through Games
*Cooperative learning through partner and small-group activities
*Home and School partnership

MATHEMATICAL PRACTICES
The first step in our alignment process with the Common Core was to integrate the 8 mathematical practices into our daily work with EDM lessons
1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
4. Model with mathematics.
5. Use appropriate tools strategically.
6. Attend to precision.
7. Look for and make use of structure.
8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

What does that mean for what you will see coming home or hear being talked about by your child?
1. You’ll see a continued emphasis on the thinking reflected in the mathematical practices.
2. You’ll see weekly work in open-response problem solving.
3. You’ll see continued use of the EDM games….please access these online from home as well.
4. What will be a little different is the focus on units of study….with an opportunity to go deeply into the standards during the unit. In order to do this with the resources of EDM, we are approaching the lessons a little differently. We’ve gathered the lessons from throughout the year that help us teach deeply and thoroughly into the standard (s) of each unit.

OPEN-RESPONSE PROBLEM SOLVING
Our next step in our alignment process with the common core was to integrate more opportunities for open response problem solving.
Ryan walked past the toy store on Tuesday. He saw some wagons in the window. Ryan counted 20 wheels.
How many wagons did Ryan see in the window?
______________ wagons
Draw or write to explain how you know.

Everyday Mathematics--Units of Study
Semester
First Semester
Second Semester
Units
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Geometry
Integrated Literature
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Museum Shapes by Gisela Voss

Kente Colors by Debbi Newton

The Spider Weaver by Margaret
Musgrove
 Cubes, Cones, Cylinders and Spheres by
Tana Hoban
Number and Operations in Base Ten
Integrated Literature

The Warlord’s Beads by Virginia
Walton
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Just Enough Carrots by Stuart J.
Murphy
Measurement and Data

EDM continued…
Log – in cards are on your child’s desk.
Please take this home and keep it somewhere safe!
This is a wonderful activity to do on nights where there might not be a Math Homelink as well as just great practice! www.everydaymathonline.com

Math Reference Book (MRB)
You can check out MRB books on a limited basis so we can keep better track of them.
Of course, if someone does not have internet access, going on a trip, etc., you would be a great candidate for checkout.
Please just let me know! 

SOCIAL STUDIES
TCI
My School and Family
Getting Along in School, Why do Schools Have Rules, Who Helps us at School?, What was School Like Long Ago?
How are Families Special?, How do Families Change?, How do Family
Members Care for Each Other?
The Pre-K- Twelfth grade social studies curriculum is to develop responsible, actionoriented citizens with a personal, global, and historical understanding of cultural diversity and community.

CHARACTER EDUCATION
*RESPECT- September
*RESPONSIBILITY- October
*COURAGE- November
*COMPASSION- December
*HONESTY- January
*TEAMWORK- February
*SELF-DISCIPLINE- March
*PERSEVERANCE- April
Trojans of the Week

SCIENCE AND HEALTH
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FOR CHILDREN
*Students make their own discoveries
*Knowledge is actively constructed by the learner
*Hand-on
*Scientific reasoning skills
*Units of Study
Sound and Light
Organisms and Skywatchers
HARCOURT HEALTH FOCUS
*Safety
*Healthy-Habits
*Decision-Making Skills
*Interpersonal Skills

TECHNOLOGY
Integrated into the daily routine of the classroom through:
*Student productivity
*Communication and collaboration
*Delivery of lessons
*Smart Board
*Laptops
*Audio Enhancers
*Document Camera

WORLD LANGUAGE
*Emphasis on the Spanish Language
*Integrated into the curriculum
*Develops awareness
*Appreciation of other cultures
*Cultural comparisons

Specials 1:30- 2:10: Art, Music & PE
Please wear tennis shoes on P.E. days!!
Library: Wednesday- 11:30-11:50
Computer Lab: Wednesday-10:40-11:20

Check your child’s red Take Home
Folder every evening!
Reading Homework: Reading Log T/TH
Word Study: Tic-Tac-Toe throughout the week & due on Fridays
Math Homework: Math Homelinks/Math
Games/Math Facts

I have a clip chart in the front of the room. Students move their clips up and or down throughout the day. If it gets down to Parent
Contact I will email.  Please ask your child daily where their clip was at the end of the day.

Students can earn fuzzies from me or by getting compliments from other teachers in the building. Once the jar is full we will celebrate by having a special day such as, pj day, crazy hair day, backwards day, crazy sock day, etc.

Our Days Together
8:35-9:00 Unpack, Thinking Journal, Read to Self
9:00-9:30 Songs, Calendar, & Morning Meeting
9:30-10:30 Literacy Block/Morning Snack
10:30-11:00 Morning Recess
11:00-12:00 Writer’s Workshop
12:10-12:50 Lunch/Recess
1:00-1:30 Wrap up morning activities
1:30-2:10 Specials- Art, Music, PE
2:20-3:00 Math
3:00-3:20 Social Studies/Spanish/Handwriting
3:25 Clean up and pack up
3:30 Dismissal

*Emails
*Online website via jenksps.org
*Weekly Newsletters- sent via email on Friday afternoons
*Phone Calls
*Conferences

On your child ’ s birthday, you are welcome to send a special snack to help celebrate their exciting day!
PLEASE make sure your ‘ treat ’ has a label indicating that there are no traces of peanuts or peanut oil in the treat you will be serving per the
JPS rules.
CAUTION: even if the treat you choose does not have peanuts, pay close attention to the bottom of the labels.
It often states “ manufactured on the same equipment that also makes products containing peanuts and tree nuts.
” We are not allowed to serve treats with those labels either.

I’m looking forward to a FABULOUS year!
• Take EDM sign-in card
• Class T-shirt money and order form
• Sign-ups
• Write note for your 1 st Grader
• Guess your 1 st Grader
THANK YOU FOR COMING!