Welcome to First Grade!

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Welcome to First Grade!

• Mrs. Dana Baryiewski
• Willow Grove

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Communication

• Email dbaryiewski_at_hackettstown.org
• Write a note.
• Call [phone] ext. 804 (voicemail only)
• Please jot me a note to let me know you left a
  message.
• Stop by before or after school
• Sign in at the office first
• Check you child's HW folder for notes from me and
  the office.

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Grade Level Website

• www.hackettstown.org
• Classroom Website

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Technology

• SMART Board
• FM System
• Classroom computers
• Waterford Reading
• Waterford Math and Science

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Essential Learnings

• Online
• An overview of the curricula including objectives
  proficiencies
• What your child should be able to do by the end
  of Grade 1
• Includes
• Subjects
• Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies,
  Health
• Specials
• Physical Education, World Language, Visual
  Performing Arts, Technology

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Language Arts

• Guided Reading
• Flexible, small group instruction with leveled
  text
• Literacy Stations (during Guided Reading)
• Individual or small group work to reinforce and
  practice skills
• Waterford
• making words, reading, books on tape, projects,
  etc.
• Whole Group
• Daily reading from big books, Read Alouds, text
  book Houghton Mifflin

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Language Arts

• Writing
• 6 1 Writing Traits
• Vocabulary
• Reading for meaning (not spelling)
• Tests on Fridays
• Homework assigned on Monday for the week.
• Phonics First by Orton Gillingham
• Vowels, Word families, suffixes, prefixes, etc.

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Math

• Trailblazers
• Hands-on
• Manipulatives
• Spiral
• Specific Units
• Unit Letters Online
• Also sent home

• Little Wizards
• Basic Facts 1 to 12
• Addition
• Subtraction
• Earn a bracelet by getting 100 correct in 5
  minutes

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Homework

• Incentive Reading Program
• aka Take Home Book/ Book in Bag
• Daily Reading Assignment
• Will begin in October
• Monday-Thursday
• Please listen to your child read daily.
• 2. Math
• Gathering data from home
• Reinforces skills taught in school.
• 3. Language Arts
• Vocabulary

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Classroom CommunityResponsive Classroom
www.responsiveclassroom.org

• Morning Meeting
• Greeting, Share Time, Group Activity, News
  Announcements
• Hopes Dreams
• Classroom Rules
• Proactive Discipline
• You break it, you fix it
• Chill Out Chair
• Loss of Privilege

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Tigers Clubs

• Free
• 300-345
• Tiger Texts, Drama Club, Math
• Look for flyers in Homework Folders starting end
  of October

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Volunteers

• Sign up sheets.

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Communication

• Email dbaryiewski_at_hackettstown.org
• Write a note.
• Call [phone] ext. 804 (voicemail only)
• Please jot me a note to let me know you left a
  message.
• Stop by before or after school
• Sign in at the office first
• Check you child's HW folder for notes from me and
  the office.

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Thank you for coming!