Grade 1

Parents & Teachers working together
to benefit children= Success

TEACHERS

Children should be able to:

• Ask and answer questions about the details in a story
• Describe characters, setting, and major events
• Retell stories
• Describe the words or phrases that suggest feelings
• Identify who is telling the story

Children should be able to:

• Know the difference between books that tell stories and books that give information
• Use the illustrations in the story to help discuss characters and setting
• Compare the adventures of characters in stories

cHILDREN SHOULD BE ABLE TO:

• Write opinion, expository and narrative pieces
• Give at least 2 details
• Have a topic sentence
• Have a conclusion
• Use capital letters and punctuation correctly.

Children should be able to:

• draw, model, write, and explain thinking
• add and subtract within 20
• tell time
• identify shapes
• solve equations using an understanding of place value (54 + 12 = 6 tens and 6 ones)

TIPS FOR A GREAT START TO THEIR DAY

• Students coming to breakfast should arrive at the front door at 8:15.
• Students not coming for breakfast should line up at their assigned door for 8:30
• Pack a healthy snack - breakfast and lunch are hours apart

TIPS FOR A GREAT START TO THEIR DAY

• Teachers mark students late between 8:30 and 8:45- after the office marks them late.
• Every day new material is covered- if you are absent you missed something
• If you plan on traveling, please travel during school vacations.

3 R's
Respect
Responsible
Ready to Learn

parents

parents can:

• Stress the importance of education
• Reward don't consequence - all they really want is a little time with you
• Read with your child - in English or Native Language
• Ask questions of your child

daily

• Encourage healthy eating
• Appropriate Bedtime
• Limit Television and Video games during the week to 1 hour

Daily

• Check their backpacks
• Ask them how their day was
• Encourage them that every day is a new beginning

Working together your child will be reading, writing and able to add and subtract by
June 2016

Thank you