Teams

Ken Birgen
Tami Attard
Kelli Trenkamp
Racheal Edmonds 

"The more that you read,
the more things you will know.
The more that you learn,
The more places you’ll go.”
Dr.  Seuss

 

Literacy Assessments 

Performance Targets 

D'nealian Handwriting

Sight Words

No Excuse Words

Writing Rubric 

Learning to read and write fluently is the goal of the first grade team.  We accomplish this through our philosophy of using a balanced literacy approach in our daily instruction.  Our instructional practices include modeled, shared, guided and independent reading and writing.  We believe in using multiple approaches to teach reading to insure that each child's individual learning style and needs are met.  Our entire morning is our literacy block, dedicated to reading and writing activities.

Do you want your student prepared for 1st grade?
Here are some items you can work on over the summer.

READING/WRITING Using the D'nealian handwriting form, practice proper letter formation of all lower case letters. Acquaint student with first 25 sight words. Read Daily to your child. Review the Performance Targets and Pacing for literacy.  Levels for each grade are listed.  The office has a list of guided reading leveled books available for summer reading at levels G through M.

MATH Be able to read and write numerals to twenty and count backwards from 10. OTHER Behavior - able to sit quietly for a short period of time. Be able to tie own shoe laces