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Mrs. Kanizer

 

First Grade Classroom Supplies

It is necessary for each child to have appropriate supplies to ensure success in school.  Below are the items which your child will need for classroom use.  Supplies are inexpensive this time of the year.  Please consider purchasing multiples to re-supply your child as needed.

 

1. A backpack without rollers
2. 4 boxes of 24 Crayola Crayons
3. 20 Elmer’s glue sticks
4. Scissors (Fiskar or Academic work best)
5. 24 yellow #2 pencils (sharpened if possible)
6. 1 box of Crayola Classic Markers
7. 6 Expo Dry Erase Markers (black only)
8. 2 white Hi-Polymer erasers (can be found at dollar stores)
9. Regular size school box
10. 2 large boxes of Kleenex
11. 1 box of gallon size baggies
12. Headphones for computer lab (no ear buds)
13. Clorox or Lysol disinfectant wipes
14. 1 roll of paper towels
15. Large bottle of hand sanitizer

*Please no hand-held pencil sharpeners

Whole Brain Teaching Rules

Our classroom rules are from Whole Brain Teaching by Chris Biffle.

1. Follow directions quickly. In the interest of keeping our class moving along and keeping students engaged, students must follow directions quickly.
2. Raise your hand for permission to speak. This pertains mostly to teacher led instruction.  Does this mean students will not be able to talk?  No!  For every 5-9 minutes of teacher talk, students will be asked to explain new learning to each other.
3. Raise your hand for permission to leave your seat. When we are busily working, we don’t want to lose valuable learning time to wandering.  This does not mean we will be sitting all day.  We will use movement to engage our brains!
4. Make smart choices. This rule has few words, but covers a great deal!
5. Keep your learning community happy. Following classroom rules and having a class engaged in learning makes everyone very happy.

 

 

As the year progresses, you may notice that our classroom doesn’t run like other classrooms. We will be learning through Whole Brain Teaching, a research based system that utilizes all areas of the brain, keeps children engaged throughout their lessons, and helps them retain much more information than the standard lecture-discussion model.
Whole Brain Teaching is a highly interactive form of instruction that delivers information to students in short “chunks.” Kids then teach what they have just learned to their partners, using hand-gestures to help remember specific vocabulary.  While students teach each other, the teacher walks around the room to discover who understands the lesson and who needs more instruction.
Research shows that children retain more information when they have an opportunity to put it into their own words and use gestures to emphasize key instructional units …plus, it’s amazingly fun! For more information about Whole Brain Teaching you can go to www.WholeBrainTeaching.com.                  Thank you for your cooperation!