JAE Teachers

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Mrs. Miller's First Grade

Greeting Wonderful Parents,

Welcome to my web page. Your child's education is so important to me and you as parents are so very important in their education process. Please check this web page weekly for any new updates. Also click on any link below to see classroom pictures.

General Information

Doors open at 8:10

Students need to arrive by 8:30

School dismissal at 3:40

If you are late, you must come into the office to sign your child in.

When your child is absent, please call the school by 10 am and I will get the work they miss and send to the office so you can pick it up after 2pm. This way your child will not get behind.

Weekly Assignments

SPELLING: Words will be sent home that Monday. . Final test on Friday.Please help your child with the words so they can make a 100 on Friday. It would be a great idea if you would sit your child down and have them write out the words like they do on a test, rather than spell them aloud. Then you could see if they do any backward letters or use capital letters where they do not belong.

. Final tests will be on Fridays.

Letters incorrectly made, backward letters or use of capital letters where they do not belong will be counted as wrong. Use of proper capitaliztion and punctuation is the goal.

For the first few months, I will be dictating sentences to them. Everyday we go over the use of capital letters and correct puctuation so they should use this for writing their sentences.

Later on they will now be writing their own sentences with a spelling word in each sentence. I will tell them to write a telling sent. and also to write an asking sentence. Use of proper words and puctuation count as a grade in language.

MATH:

We will begin with basic counting skills in our new Saxon Math program. We will be using our meeting board each morning to learn skills such as the calendar, money, time, place value and number patterns. We are learning to write our numbers correctly each day. Graphing, right and left, squares and circles and patterns. There will be an assessment of each skill covered after each 10 lessons. A grade will be taken each time..

Math skills:

Identifying sets and amounts 0-9 completed

Writing numbers in order from 1-200 working on completed

Using different types of graphs and reading themcompleted

Writing number sentences completed

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Tally Markscompleted

Using ones and tens completed

Addition and subtraction facts to 20completed

Odd and even numbers-completed

Telling time-to the hour-Completed

Telling time to the 1/2 hour completed

Telling Time to the 5 mins.completed

Measuring-using a ruler for inches and centimeters-completed

Money working on

Fractions-1/2, 1/4completed

Ordinal numbers-completed

Counting by 5's, 10's and 2's completed

Addition with carrying the tens.

Reading-Main Idea, Author's purpose decoding skills, comprehension

Science- 5 Senses. plants, living and non-living,animals,

mammals, reptiles, birds and amphibians.

Space

Weather

Earth and Natural resources

Our bodies-

Magnets

Language-Identifying naming words(nouns) and action words(verbs). Sentences-what is a sentence and what is not a sentence. Describing words (adjectives)

Correct use of punctuation

Correct use of capital letters

Handwriting-Correct letter formations, paying careful attention to the size of each letter-1 space tall or 2 spaces tall.

Social Studies-Our Country, continents

Explorers Tennessee

Homework

Reading-Math-See information above.

A. R. books will be sent home with your child. As soon as they complete reading the book aloud to you, please sign their A.R. folder and return the book so they can take the test on the book that next day. After they take their test, they may choose a new book to take home. Reading at home is the BEST way to help your child develop their reading skills.

MATH: Will be doing 1-2 pages a night for math homework. Please go over it with your child and help them to correct any mistakes before turning in next day

. Your child's folder must be brought home everyday and returned the next day. Please put any notes to me in this and please put your child's lunch money in an envelope with their name on it. Also put on the envelope what the money is to be used for. (treats, ice-cream, extra drink or lunch) or field trip, t-shirt, supply money etc.

Words to help your child improve test scores on achievement tests.

Trace-outline

Analyze-break apart

Infer-Read between the lines

Evaluate-Judge

Formulate-Create

Describe-Tell all about

Support-Back up with detail

Explain-Tell how

Summarize-Give me the short version

Compare-All the ways they are alike

Contrast-All the ways they are different

Predict-What will happen next

THETA SCAN:

Reviewing or studying for a test 5 mins. before your child goes to bed might get him/her ahead.

My Wish List:

Magic erasors

. 8 oz. bottles of water

. tennis balls for the bottom of our chairs

. old games to play during inside recess

3- minute timers (to use for computer time so they will hear ring and change turns with each other.)

Accelerated Reading books

G-rated movies for rainy days-Thanks go out to Jewell's mom for sending in tons of videos and putting us on the list to get tennis balls from the park.

Pictures

We will be taking pictures during the year and they will be posted here.