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In The Classroom – As your child’s teacher, I promise to…

• Use the latest research to teach students.

• Provide open communication through folders, conferences, phone calls and notes.

• Establish collaboration with ESL, Title I, and other teachers for student instruction and scheduling/pull-out.

• Provide materials that are interesting, motivating, and global/culturally responsive.

• Help parents understand instructional practices, class expectations, and grading policies.

• Plan meaningful lessons that meet individual student needs.

• Provide a safe school environment that promotes learning and encourages a partnership with the school.

• Help students realize the leaders in themselves as they help others do the same.

• Employ effective classroom management skills.

• Promote a feeling of belonging for all and celebrate the diversity of our students and families.

At Home – As the child’s parent/guardian, I promise to…

• Read nightly with my child.

• Provide an appropriate area for completing homework.

• Engage in activities that encourage learning.

• Provide encouragement and help develop the leader in your child using the 7 Habits.

• Talk with my child about his/her school day.

• Attend school activities & parent-teacher conferences.

• Show respect with my words and actions for my child, other children, and their families, the teachers, and the school.

• Communicate and work with the school to encourage my child’s learning and positive behavior.

• Ask specific questions to stimulate my child’s conversation/oral language skills.

• Encourage regular & prompt attendance.

A sample of what your child will be learning in first grade Language Arts:

• Using phonics and word analysis skills to figure out unfamiliar words

• Describing characters, settings and major events in a story using key details

• Getting facts and information from different writings

• Participating in shared research and writing projects

• Taking part in discussions about topics and texts being studied

• Describing people, places, and events with relevant details

• Identifying the correct meaning for a word with multiple meanings

Some activities you can do to support Language Arts learning at home: 

• Encourage your child to read books to you.  Help him or her sound out and use other strategies to figure out difficult words.

• Act out stories together from books, television, or your child’s imagination.

• Pick a “word of the day” each day starting with a different letter.  Have your child write the word and look for other things beginning with the same letter.

• Visit the library with your child every week.  Have your child sign up for a library card.

A sample of what your child will be learning in first grade Math:

• Counting, beginning at any number, up to 150

• Using understanding of place value to add and subtract

• Solving addition and subtraction word problems

• Adding with a sum of 20 or less and subtracting from a number 20 or less

• Understanding what the digits mean in a two-digit number (place value)

• Using and understanding place value to add and subtract

• Measuring lengths of objects by using a shorter object as a unit of length

• Making composite shapes by joining shapes together, and dividing circles and rectangles into halves and fourths

Some activities you can do to support Math learning at home: 

• Look for “word problems” in real life.  Some first grade examples might include:

  • If you open a new carton of a dozen eggs, and your use four eggs go cook dinner, close the carton and ask your child how many eggs are left.

  • While putting away toys into bins, count the number of toys in two bins and ask your child how many are in one bin compared to the other.

• Play the “I’m thinking of a number” game.   For example, “I’m thinking of a number that makes 11 when added to 8.  What is my number?”