Welcome to
First Grade
Curriculum Night
School Hours
7:45—Warm-up begins
8:05—Tardy bell rings
2:55—Dismissal bell rings
Attendance
Attendance is very important. Much
of what is taught is hands-on and
cannot be made up.
If your child has a fever, please keep
him or her home for 24 hours. This is
requested by most doctors.
Transportation
Please let me know if your child needs
a transportation change.
Changes must be done through the
front office (fax) or a hand written
note to the teacher by 2:00pm.
We are NOT permitted to accept
transportation changes via email.
Lunch and Recess
Lunch 11:05-11:35
Checks or cash may be sent to school with your
child’s name and ID number in the memo.
Money may also be added to your online account
www.schoolpaymentsolutions.com
Parents must sit at the designated “parent table”
when visiting your child for lunch. Other students
will not be permitted to join you.
Recess 11:35-11:50
Parents are not permitted to follow their child to
recess. It is a safety concern.
Snacks & Water Bottles
Your child may bring a healthy
non-messy finger food snack to class.
Please do not send a snack that needs
to be eaten with a spook or fork.
Water bottles may be brought to
school in a spill proof water bottle.
Birthdays
Please provide two days notice of a
birthday treat being brought to
school.
Treats are distributed in the
classroom at 1:45.
Birthday invitations must be sent to
the entire class if handed out at
school.
Literacy Assessment
DRA (Developed Reading Assessment)
Assessed each marking period
50% of LA report card grade
Beginning of the year: Level 4
Middle of the year: Level 10
End of the year: Level 16
PAPI (Phonics Assessment)
3 times per the year
Grades
Language Arts
(Reading, Writing, Spelling/Word Study)
DRA 50%
Daily Grades 25%
Major Grades 25%
Your child's DRA grade is NOT included
in their average for progress reports.
Math, Science, Social Studies
Daily Grades 50%
Major Grades 50%
Homework
CISD requires 45 minutes per night.
Homework pages may be found on our
class website.
Read 20 minutes EVERY night.
D3 Time
Dragons Digging Deeper
Students will participate in "D3 Time" (Dragons
Digging Deeper) for 45 minutes per day. During
this time, students will enrich the learning from
their classrooms by working on targeted areas
based on the child's needs. Through data from
common assessments and benchmarks we are
able to identify areas that the children need to
fill in gaps, as well as, areas that the children
need to extend their learning to a higher level.
All students will participate in D3 Time in order
to advance their learning.
Reading
What can I expect my child to learn?
Recognize and use individual sounds to create words, or
phonemic awareness.
Understand the relationships between written letters and
spoken sounds, or phonics. This allows children to
recognize familiar words accurately and automatically, and
"decode" new words.
Develop the ability to read a text accurately and quickly,
or reading fluency.
Learn the meaning and pronunciation of words, or
vocabulary development.
Acquire strategies to understand, remember and
communicate what is read, or reading comprehension
strategies.
Reading
How can I help my child at home?
D3 Reading: What it looks like...
Students will read and respond to level
appropriate text based on students' individual
DRA score.
Students will strengthen skills by reading
poetry, acting out reader's theaters,
responding to literature, and increasing
fluency. Fluency is the speed and accuracy at
which your child reads out loud. An exiting
first grader should read at least 60 words per
minute.
D3 Language: What it looks like...
Examples:
Students will create words in word family.
Generate words in the -at family.
Students will make new words using letters in
one longer word. Make as many new words as you
can with the letters in president.
Students will be engaged in activities based on
word ladders, word sorts, word wall games,
making big words, unscrambling words, word
crosswords, vocabulary application
Writing
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ov the spelling. The inglish langwij iz kunfewzing two
lern. Cids uz “phonetic” spelling in thair wrk to
xpress thair thouts. Foursing cids too uz
cunvenshunal speling reedoss thair dezir and abillite
to right. It is mi joub to teech ur child 2 uz
reesorsis and lerning in ordr to beecum a “Smartie
Writer.”
U can hlp ur child bi incoruging thim at eech
divelupmentil stag. Axk ur child to reed and esplane
thair riting to u. Az ur child lerns about the inglish
langwij tha wil mak the tranzishun to “adult writing.”
Thank u 4 ur saport!
Writing
What can I expect my child to learn?
Create IDEAS to write about
ORGANIZING writing to show a beginning,
middle, and end
Making decisions about WORD CHOICE
Using CONVENTIONS
Let me hear VOICE
SENTENCE FLUENCY
PRESENTATION of writing
Writing
How can I help my child at home?
Encourage writing at home - Allow children
to sound out a word and spell it the best
they can.
Encourage writing using different genres:
Nonfiction and Fiction
Making Lists
Write letters
Fantasy
Math
What can I expect my child to learn?
Addition/Subtraction to 18
Patterns in numbers: odd/even, skip count by
2s, 5s, 10s
Place Value: compare and order numbers
Number Sense: order of numbers, greater
than/less than, locate on hundreds chart
Measurement: length, area, weight/mass,
temperature, capacity
Coins: name and value
Shapes: 2D (plane) and 3D (space)
Story Problems
Time to the hour and half hour
Math
How can I help my child at home?
Weekly homework
 Mathletics – mathletics.com (A letter will come home.)
 Encourage your child to identify math in everyday
situations.
 Name 3D shapes while in the grocery store.
 Practice adding or subtracting groups of objects.
 Math Facts – Rapid recall
 Math Cafe
 Flashcards
 Practice counting a large group of objects by skip
counting.
 Encourage your child to sort loose change by coin. Then,
identify the coin and how much it is worth.

D3 Math: What it looks like...
Example One:
Students will review value and identification of
each coin.
Students will find value of coin amounts including
combinations with pennies, nickels, dimes, and
quarters.
Example Two:
Students will demonstrate mastery of basic
addition and subtraction facts up to 18.
Students will calculate addition and subtraction
problems with regrouping. (Two digit addition and
subtraction problems.)
Science
What can I expect my child to learn?
properties of matter
heat energy
sound energy
light energy
motion
magnetism
weather (clouds)
seasons
moon and stars
soil and rocks
living vs. non-living
water
food chain
natural resources
pet care
life cycle of frog
life cycle of chicken
Science
How can I help my child at home?
Incorporate the use of non-fiction text as
part of your child's daily reading practice.
Visit your local library to supplement nonfiction reading material.
Keep a science fact journal or poster of
science topics. Your child may draw a
picture of new found learning and record
facts learned.
Visit Brain Pop Jr, accessed through the
Deretchin's website to reinforce key
topics studied at school.
Social Studies
What can I expect my child to learn?
Citizenship: What is a good citizen
Geography: Landforms
Economics: Needs/Wants & Goods/Services
Government: Who are our public officials and
what do they do? What is voting?
Culture: How are people alike and different?
History: How have things changed over time?
Texas/U.S. Symbols, Aesop’s Fables
Resources
Social Studies
How can I help my child at home?
Practice reciting the U.S pledge and Texas Pledge
Expose your child to different Texas Symbols
Talk with your child about community helpers and their
roles within the community
Reinforce our country, state, city, street they live in/on
Practice reading a calendar and time line
Read about the contributions of Martin Luther King Jr.,
Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Garrett Morgan,
Sam Houston, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln.
Talk with your child about changes in technology
Discuss Needs and Wants
Discuss Goods and Services
Thank you for
coming tonight!