1. A Day in Pre-First

2. A Typical Day in Pre-First

3. Lunchtime

4. Playground

5. Reading Workshop

6. What is Reading Workshop?
Reading workshop helps children through the
use of various tools:
 mini-lessons
 shared reading
 read aloud
 conferencing
 independent reading
 literature response

7. What Reading Workshop Teaches:
 Emphasizes student engagement
 Stresses interaction between readers and text
 Focuses on teaching reading strategies, fostering
independence
Strategies include:
 Making Connections
 Creating Mental Images
 Asking Questions
 Making Comprehension
and Meaning

8. Reading Workshop
RW starts with a mini-lesson. Anchor charts are used
with some lessons. Then, the students have time to
read. Lastly, they come back together to share.
Students read independently, with
a partner, and with a teacher.

9. Expectations
Students will bring home a
book each night to read.
The books will come home in
a book baggie.
Students will write down the
title of the book and return it
to school the next day
Keep reading to your child!

10. Phonics
 Joining consonants, vowels to make word families
 Handwriting Without Tears, phonics games, word study
 Orton-Gillingham approach

11. Word Study
“Doing things with words.”
• Examining
• Manipulating
• Comparing
• Categorizing
Goal: Guide and support students’ learning about sounds,
structure, and meaning of words

12. Word Study
 Develop a basic knowledge of spelling by paying attention to how
words sound
 Increase specific knowledge of words
 Less focus on memorization, more on working with words during
“word sorts”

13. Word Study in Action

14. Word Study Links Reading
and Writing by Using:
• Word sorts
• Word hunts
• Writing sorts
• Word games

15. What is Writing Workshop?
Writing Workshop allows students to be at various stages of the
writing process at one time.
Each student in the class is a working author, and teachers work
with students independently.
Structure: mini-lesson, independent working time, share time.
Teachers conference with individuals about their writing,
students gather work in folders that becomes their portfolios.

16. We are writers!

17. Pre-First Math

18. Pre-First Math
• Everyday Math – learn to apply numbers in our world
• Integrating new program, Math in Focus – prepares
students for success in more advanced mathematics
• Traditional math program emphasizes understanding,
flexible thinking
• Teaches how (and why) math works

19. Everyday Math
Math is Important
 Operations and computation
 Numeration
 Patterns, Functions, Algebra
 Data & Chance
 Measurement, Coin Values
 Geometry

20. Numbers, Numbers Everywhere!
Clocks
Number lines
Calendar
Counting Objects
Shapes
Money
Daily Routines
Computers
Cell phones
Driving

21. Manipulative Materials, Games,
Computer
Pattern and attribute blocks,
graphs, counters, money, coins
Dice and domino games, number
grid games
Websites, IXL, iPad apps

22. Individual, Group Instruction

23. Design Thinking

24. G.O.A.L.
(Growth Opportunity for All Learners)
• Meeting needs of each unique learner
• “Deep dive” in specific areas

25. Examples of G.O.A.L. Support
• Orton Gillingham spelling strategies
• Math enrichment, practice
• Reading for comprehension
• Vocabulary

26. One-to-One iPads
• Tool for learning, demonstrating student
knowledge
• Math, reading and writing apps
• Also for research, photography, slates
(drawing), recording, mapping

27. Literacy and Math Centers

28. Project Based Learning
Welcome to Our Neighborhood
What Makes a Great Community?
Me and My World
Study community characteristics
• Love Hall
• Westminster
• Atlanta

29. Project Based Learning
Welcome to Our Neighborhood
Thought provoking projects
Practice collaboration,
communication, critical thinking
Experience will include:
Field trips, map-making, creating
buildings, becoming architects
and engineers, final presentation

30. Questions?