Welcome parents! This page was created so you will know what standards we will be working on each nine weeks in our classroom. At the end of each nine weeks, your child will be assessed on the standards specified below, and it will be marked on the report card. I want you to be aware of what I am teaching so you can be helping your child at home as well. Some of the skills may be difficult, and your child will need the extra practice at home. Please go over the highlighted information first. Your child may need to practice his/her personal information for several weeks until he commits it to memory. Don't worry. This may take awhile.
First nine weeks
Concepts of print
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Holding a book correctly. (Right side up and not upside down)
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Tracking text from left to right and top and bottom
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Distinguishing between pictures and words in a book
Understands that sentences start with capital letters and end with some sort of punctuation
Can identify upper and lowercase letters of the alphabet
Identifies letter sounds
Orally manipulating sounds
Writes first and last name
Expresses ideas through writing (Pictures and/or words)
Answers questions after listening to stories
Developmental reading assessment
Can communicate effectively orally
Recites short poems and songs
Counts and labels sets
Write numerals
Print and identifies numbers 1-10
Understands calendar time
Identifies money and its value (penny, nickel, dime, quarter)
Sorts objects by common properties (shape, color, size)
Identifies shapes
Makes and identifies patterns (red yellow red yellow)
Poses questions and gathers data
Compares, sorts, classifies
Identifies national holidays
a. Labor Day
i. Independence Day
States personal geographical information
The student will need to state the street address, city, county, state, nation, and continent in which he or she lives.
Good citizenship
a. Explain how rules are made and why.
b. Explain why rules should be followed.
Patriotism and positive character traits
The student will retell stories that illustrate positive character traits and
will explain how the people in the stories show the qualities of honesty, patriotism, loyalty, courtesy, respect, truth, pride, self-control, moderation, and accomplishment
Community helpers
The student will describe the work that people do (police officer, fire fighter, soldier, mail carrier, baker, farmer, doctor, and teacher
Ways to earn income and use money
Physical properties of matter (compare, sort, and classify)
Second nine weeks
Reads high frequency words (sight words)
Blends and segments syllables(Blending is saying theword in parts and having them put it together. Ex: cow-boy= cowboy. Segmenting is having them count out the syllables in a word.
Ex: hamburger= ham/bur/ger = 3 syllables.
Putting sounds together to make words
Follows two step oral directions
Makes fair trades using money (two dimes and a nickel=one quarter,
five pennies =one nickel, two nickels=one dime)
Understands the meaning of addition
Relates time to daily events
Combines and seperates shapes
Identifies positional relationships (under, beside, in front of, behind, below, etc)
Motion/gravity
Students will investigate different types of motion.
a. Sort objects into categories according to their motion. (straight, zigzag, round and round, back and forth, fast and slow, and motionless)
b. Push, pull, and roll common objects and describe their motions.
SKP3. Students will observe and communicate effects of gravity on objects.
a. Recognize that some things, such as airplanes and birds, are in the sky, but return to earth.
b. Recognize that the sun, moon, and stars are in the sky, but don’t come down.
c. Explain why a book does not fall down if it is placed on a table, but will fall down if it is dropped.
Day and night sky
Students will describe time patterns (such as day to night and night to day) and objects (such as sun, moon, stars) in the day and night sky.
a. Describe changes that occur in the sky during the day, as day turns into night, during the night, and as night turns into day.
b. Classify objects according to those seen in the day sky and those seen in the night sky.
c. Recognize that the Sun supplies heat and light to Earth.
Rocks and soil
Students will describe the physical attributes of rocks and soils.
a. Use senses to observe and group rocks by physical attributes such as large/small, heavy/light, smooth/rough, dark/light, etc.
b. Use senses to observe soils by physical attributes such as smell, texture, color, particle/grain size.
c. Recognize earth materials— soil, rocks, water, air, etc
Uses chronological and time words
a. Now, long ago
b. Before, after
c. Morning, afternoon, night
d. Today, tomorrow, yesterday
e. First, last, next
f. Day, week, month, year
g. Past, present, future
American culture
The student will describe American culture by explaining diverse community and family celebrations and customs
Maps and globes show a view from above and features in a smaller size
Identifies national holidays
b. Columbus Day (Christopher Columbus)
c. Veterans Day
d. Thanksgiving Day
Third nine weeks
Identifies national holidays
e. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
f. Presidents Day (George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and the current President)
Blends sounds to read words
Prints letters correctly
Identifies and produces models for number words
Sequences and identifies ordinal numbers
Compares shapes (similarities and differences between triangles, rectangles, squares, spheres, and cubes)
Identifies American symbols
Identify living and nonlivivng organisms
Identifying animals (Explains similarities and differences in animals, between parents and babies, and match pictures of animals and their babies.
Fourth nine weeks
Identifies national holidays
g. Memorial Day
h. Flag Day
Understands the meaning of rocks and soil (Goups rocks by their characteristics. Heavy, light, color, texture, smell etc)
Recognizes earth materials (rocks, soil, water, air)