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Back to School NightBack to School NightSeptember 24, 2012September 24, 2012

Miss Cuffe

• All About Me

Daily Routine• Arrival – no earlier than 8:20 (8:45 tardy)

- drop off at blacktop• Schedule• Snack must be nut free!• Class Bingo & Behavior Chart• Appropriate clothing for recess• Dismissal – 3:05 front doors• Please send in a note if your child is going

home with someone else

Specials Schedule• Monday – P.E.• Tuesday – P.E. and Technology• Wednesday – Library• Thursday – Health and Music• Friday – Art

First Grade Curriculum• Math – www.pearsonsuccessnet.com• Language Arts

- Good Habits, Great Readers- Words their Way- Journal Writing- Writing Workshop

• Science - living and nonliving things, balance/motion,

changes, pebbles, sand, and silt, shadows

• Social Studies- communities / Second Step program

• Zaner-Bloser Handwriting

Homework• Handwriting – begins October 1st • Math – begins October 9th • Spelling – begins October 15th

• Reading – Reading folder – October 22nd

• *Reader Response – (Jan.)

“Fun" Stuff of the Week

• Student of the Week• Mystery Reader (Fridays @ 2:45)• Special Interest/Talent/Culture• Birthday Read Aloud

Museum on the Move• Van Gogh

• Renoir

• Klee

• Georgia O’Keeffe

• Hokusai

Field Trips

• To be announced

Looking Ahead…• November Conferences - Tuesday, November

27th, Wednesday, November 28th and Thursday, November 29th (early dismissal for students)

• First Grade Concert – December 11th at 9:00 a.m.

• First Grade Chat– January 23rd at 10:30 a.m.

• First Grade Picnic – June 20th

Sources of Information

• Home Page

• District Website• http://www.chatham-nj.org

• Class Newsletter

Contacting Miss Cuffe

• Email is best – ccuffe@chatham-nj.org• Emergencies call the office 973-457-2510

• (Voicemail – 973-457-2510 ext. 7857) • Notes work well, too!

YOUR Assignments• Parent Survey – My Child as a Learner

• Leave a note

• Sign up for Mystery Reader

• Giving Tree

The Finale…

• Thank you

• Room Mother Announcements-Lisa Devine

• Take Tour