1st & 2nd GradeCurriculum 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, 20146:30- 7:30 pm

The Unified Arts ExperienceAn 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 802-489-5976efreydelaportas@hotmail.com

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 FluencyJohn Madden

https://docs.google.com/a/cssu.org/document/d/1GZBIjtU02pyqmCoM1wxhugIGo8CV108EEbh-BqyIzF8/edit

Pati BeaumontSCS Co-Principal

https://docs.google.com/a/cssu.org/presentation/d/1cx4YZlq3g5oMaDmnZ49rKUC9KTyRJ95NeunwNryCmrE/edit#slide=id.g3b3824e53_087

Katie TylerGuidance Counselour

https://docs.google.com/a/cssu.org/presentation/d/1knQ7OWkMZiXPRm1gyXEYhs7gQBPNi-I76XziGuPWVrI/edit#slide=id.g3b986b43f_059

Responsive Classroom Guiding Principles

• Social Curriculum• How Children Learn• Maximize Cognitive Growth• Set of Social Skills• Understanding and Knowing the

Children• Families As Partners• Adult Impact

Classroom Practices

 At the heart of the Responsive Classroom Approach are TEN Classroom Practices

• Morning Meeting • Rule Creation • Interactive Modeling • Positive Teacher

Language

• Logical Consequences

• Guided Discovery

• Academic Choice

• Classroom

Organization

• Working With Families • Collaborative Problem-

Solving

Research on Effectiveness

Research by the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education

has found that schools using Responsive Classroom practices see:

• Improved Teacher-Student Interactions

• Higher-Quality Teaching

• Improved Social Skills in Children

• Greater Student Achievement in Math and

Reading• More Positive Feelings Toward School

Among Children and Teachers

Findings are from the Social and Academic Learning Study (2001–

2004) or the Responsive Classroom Efficacy Study (2008–2011), or

both. For more information, go to

www.responsiveclassroom.org/research

Science and NGSS With a strong focus on

inquiry, topics include but are not limited to:• 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, covering: 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 MathematicsStrands

• 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:– 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

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.

Bridges Grade 1

Critical Areas of Study1 Developing an understanding of addition, subtraction, and strategies for addition and subtraction within 202 Developing an understanding of whole number relationships and place value, including grouping in tens and ones3 Developing an understanding of linear measurement and measuring lengths as iterating length units4 Reasoning about attributes of, and composing and decomposing geometric shapes

Units CoveredUnit 1Numbers All Around UsUnit 2Developing Strategies with Dice & DominoesUnit 3Adding, Subtracting, Counting & ComparingUnit 4Leapfrogs on the Number LineUnit 5GeometryUnit 6Figure the Facts with PenguinsUnit 7One Hundred & BeyondUnit 8Changes, Changes

Bridges Grade 2

Critical Areas of Study

1 Extending understanding of base-ten notation2 Building fluency with addition and subtraction3 Using standard units of measure4 Describing and analyzing shapes

Units CoveredUnit 1Figure the FactsUnit 2Place Value & Measurement with Jack’s Beanstalks Unit 3Addition & Subtraction Within One HundredUnit 4MeasurementUnit 5Place Value to One ThousandUnit 6GeometryUnit 7Measurement, Fractions & Multi-Digit Computation with Hungry AntsUnit 8Measurement, Data & Multi-Digit Computation with Marble Rolls

Components of a Balanced Reading Program

• 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 process:

• Planning • Writing • Conferencing • Revising/editing • Publishing

• Writer’s Workshop• Mini lesson• Writing and conferring• Sharing

Writing

• Writing Genres• Informational/

explanatory• Opinion• Narrative

• Other Types of Writing• Poetry• Letters• Journal Entries• Responses to Text

• Conventions• Handwriting • sentence structure • phonetic spelling

• 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

Fundations: 1st Grade

Fundations: 2nd Grade• review 1st grade concepts

• base words and more suffixes

• vowel teams (oi, oy, ea, ee)

• trick words

• 6 syllable types• closed syllable• vowel consonant-e• open syllable• r-controlled syllable• double vowel syllable• consonant –le syllable

Common AssessmentsLiteracy• 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

Thank you for coming!

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