Be Responsible 
Be Prepared Be Respectful
Please go to your Teacher's page:
Mrs. Dobson
Mrs. Coyle
Mrs. South
Mrs. Gagnon - Case Manager
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Ellis School
SCHOOL HOURS
| School Begins | 8:25 AM |
| Dismissal | 3:05 PM |
| Building Closed | 4:30 PM |
Welcome to First Grade Power Point
FIRST GRADE IS PEANUT FREE!!!
Click on the Survival Guide to find out about Ellis School and procedures
Please click on the light blue links to learn more about our school or to play some curriculum games.
COMPUTER GAMES WE USE AT SCHOOL
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MATH GAMES-- click on the lesson number and play a math game-- set up by UNIT |
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In the first grade this year your child will be using the Wilson Fundations word study program. This program is a scientifically researched-based program. It is systematic and routine. The children will love telling you about Echo and Baby Echo. In first grade, we are building on the foundation set in Kindergarten. The children are using the same sound-letter relationships, and will build simple words into more complex and compound words. The program has reading and writing components and is the basis of our phonics, sight word, spelling, and sentence writing instruction.
Wilson Fundations
We have introduced our classroom friend ECHO. Echo is an owl puppet that reminds the children to repeat after the teacher. We use Echo when we introduce new sounds and when we practice the sounds with sound cards.
Reading
Check out starfall for some fun reading games and stories.
www.starfall.com
Please check out what stories we Can read all by ourselves!!!
I Can Read Stories to My Parents
Our school has a subscription to Reading A-Z. We will be reading books from this website
throughout the year. They do offer some sample books, worksheets, and poetry.
The following link is a list of "trick words" that your child will be learning this year.
These words, also know as sight words, are the words that are used most frequently in text.
Print them at home and practice them with your child.
SOMETHING FROM OUR OWN
WORDY WORD WALL
Hey you wordy word wall
You can't TRICK me
I'm watching and I'm learning
How different words can be
Hey you wordy word wall
You can't TRICK me
I read you everyday
Inside my brain you'll stay
Hey you wordy word wall
You can't TRICK me
I bet you think you're smart
But by the time 1st grade is over
I'll know you by heart!
by Mrs. Coyle
1st Grade Curriculum
The first grade team has been working on developing parent
friendly curriculum materials. Follow the link below to see
what your child is learning.
Handwriting
We are continuing with the Handwriting Without Tears writing program. This program will be practiced daily and handwriting will become a routine. We will be working on proper posture, grip and paper placement as well as use of size and spacing. Watch your child's progress and start to congratulate their efforts. Please check out the program below. Also, there is some practice paper that you can print off for the children to show you what they have learned at school.
Handwriting without Tears Curriculum Overview
CAPITAL LETTERS Lowercase letters Practice Paper
MATH
We are proud to announce that we are using the Everyday Math Third Edition program. You will be receiving information about this program periodically throughout the year. Feel free to visit the EDM web site.Parent Connection Your child will be assigned daily homework through this program. We will be sending home UNIT letters to parents ( see below if you would like to print them off ahead of time and set them up in a math binder). Please keep these letters in a binder, so that you can refer to them when helping with homework assignments. Along with the unit letters, your child will be bringing home a Student REFERENCE TEXT. The text is also online and interactive. Interactive Text You recieved a login and password at open house. The EDM program creates a meaningful, long-lasting learning spiral for children.
Everyday Math Games
MATH GAMES-- click on the lesson number and play a math game-- set up by UNITS
New Hampshire State Correlations to the Standards by lesson
Science and Social Studies
We will be INVESTIGATING, PREDICTING, INQUIRING, WONDERING, EXAMINING, QUESTIONING, TOUCHING, SMELLING AND EXPERIENCING SCIENCE THROUGH NATURE AND OUR SURROUNDINGS. We have developed a partnership with the NHEET team and have been learning about National Projects like
Project Learning Tree, Project Wet, Project Wild....
We have an exciting year planned, as we will be developing many new inquiring MINDS!!!! Watch for the great photographs we will be placing here.
Earth SciencE
Community Time
Each Friday the entire first grade comes together to share learning in Community Time. We meet as a grade in one classroom. This is a time when we expand upon the learning we are doing altogether. In the past, we have used this time to teach social skills, audience behavior, fire safety, artist appreciation, science, social studies and much more. We integrate different learning styles throughout this time.
PBIS PBIS PBIS PBIS PBIS PBIS PBIS PBIS PBIS
BE RESPECTFUL BE RESPONSIBLE BE PREPARED
We will be getting together weekly with all the first grade classes to teach about a learner's job at school. The whole school has adopted these three words and their meanings to create a place where everyone can have fun and be safe. We will show your child what it looks like to be:
respectful in the halls, prepared for gym, responsible for returning homework and more!
Teaching the children what we expect is proactive. We are preparing students to know the expectations through specific instruction, modeling and practice so they successfully meet the behavioral expectations at school.
INTERGRATING TECHNOLOGY
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