Ms. Silverberg
1st Grade

Welcome!! We will have a wonderful year in 1^st grade. Here is a description of what our day looks like.  The children will begin each day with Morning Meeting. We greet and build our community of learners at this time. SWR is our spelling, writing, reading program, where the children work with writing letters, sounds, word families and sight words daily. Writing Workshop is a time the children are exposed to what good writers do and engage in the writing process on a developmental level. Read Alouds are the time we share wonderful literature and work on comprehension strategies. Literacy Stations are when the kids read both independently and in guided groups. They work with words and go to thematically-based centers. Math is done using the Everyday math program. You will see the parent connection with our Everyday Math Homelinks book. Social Studies and Science themes are incorporated throughout the day and activities are taught at the end of the day. The children eat snack every morning.

WE ARE A PEANUT FREE CLASSROOM THIS YEAR!

Please contact me with any questions or concerns you may have at anytime. I check my e-mail daily: silverbergj@csdvt.org
 

A typical day in our 1^st grade class

Morning Meeting

SWR

Snack

Writing Workshop

Read Aloud

Literacy Stations

Lunch / Recess

Quiet Time

Vocabulary

Math

Social Studies / Science

Special

THEMES
 

All About Me	Holidays	The Gingerbread Man	Animals
Countries/Culture	Weather	Solids and Liquids	Night Sky
Chicks	Magnets	Seasons	Author Studies

Discipline

I believe that each child will be a responsible and important part of our community of learners by following these rules:

Be safe

Be kind

Do your best

I have high expectations for children to follow these rules and give many opportunities for them to practice/role play them.  At times a child may need to 'take a break', where a child will need to visit a separate, quiet area to calm down before rejoining the activity.  I will always process this with that child and have them identify a plan of action for the future.  I will share these frequent visits with parents.  I truly believe we need to be a partnership to support your child in and out of school.  The more we work together the more consistent our expectations will be.
 

Home/School Connection

Your child needs to bring in a daily Home/School folder.  Please check it everyday to see what your child has done and read any important notes.  I will write a newsletter each week or two to cover what we're doing in each content area and important reminders.  Your child will have homework throughout the week. I will send home your child's Homelinks math homework on Tuesday's and Friday's. I will color in the assignments to be completed with your child.  This is to be returned the following school day.  I will also begin our 1st Grade Home/School reading Program where your child will bring home a leveled book each Monday to read 2x to you before returning it on Friday.
 

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