Our District Goals

To increase literacy achievement for all students.

To provide long-term professional development and in-class coaching for teachers.

To collect data from state and local reading and writing assessments and to measure progress.

To provide Reading Recovery, a safety net for the lowest achieving first graders.

Literacy

Word Study:

=>This involves a brief, focused lesson on a principle that children will explore later during centers.

Phonics:

=>How words work through phonics and spelling; incorporated through all parts of reading/writing instruction

Interactive Read Aloud:

=>The teacher reads aloud to the whole class. The teacher allows for interaction from the children and is actively engaging them for conversation. When reading the children learn how texts are put together, build up literacy language structures, and they learn how to make personal connections and comparisons.

Community Writing:

=>Is a balance between interactive writing and shared writing.

Interactive Writing:

=>The teacher and children compose messages and stories that are written using a "shared pen" technique that involves children in the writing. The final product is displayed and used in future lessons for reading and writing.

Shared Writing:

=>Teacher and children work together to compose messages and stories. The teacher does all the writing (acts as a scribe). The teacher models and demonstrates the process of putting children's ideas into written language.

Shared Reading:

=>Using an enlarged text that all children can see, the teacher involves children in reading together. Shared Reading explicitly demonstrates strategies we what children to use when reading independently. Shared Reading provides opportunity for the children to participate and behave like a reader. Sharing reading is highly complementary to the instructional goals of guided reading. Teacher models strategy and then gives kids a chance to practice.

Guided Reading:

=>Children will read books at their level in a small group. They will be introduced to books which promote slight challenges, to enhance reading strategies. Those books will be a part of their independent reading.

Independent Reading:

=>Children have opportunities to read books that are at their own reading level.

Writer’s Workshop:

=>Children are constructing their individual pieces of writing with teacher guidance, assistance, and feedback. This part of the framework begins with a mini-lesson (5-10 minutes): It is a short, focused lesson that provides assistance to the writers so they can carry on independently.

Math-Common Core

• counting to 120

• recognizing numbers to 120

• shapes: basic and 3D

• addition

• subtraction

• addition and subtraction within word problems

• time to the hour and half-hour on analog & digital clocks

• nonstandard measurement

• ordering by lengths

• fractions ~ halves, fourths and quarters

• graphing

• place value to the hundreds

• comparing numbers greater than , less than & equal to

• word problems

• probability

• skip counting by 10s, 5s, and 2s.

• days of the week

• months of the year

• identifying coins, their values and count like coins