3rd Nine Weeks

These expectations are available in a Word doc.

Writing

The student will:

  • Write daily using a variety of materials
  • Write a story using pictures and some writing
  • Retell a story
  • Respond to literature by writing/drawing a story
  • Write a narrative story, using terrific topic choice
  • Kid writing – using letters and words that they use in their conversation, usually represented phonetically
  • Create functional writing pieces including report, labeling, listing and “how to”, i.e. recipes
  • Write using some words from books/word wall
  • Approximate some of the phrasing and rhythms of literary language
  • Use the syntax of oral language, so writing is easy to read aloud
  • Attempt to use a period appropriately

Evidence of this will be:

  • Daily writing
  • Daily message
  • Writing portfolio
  • Teacher observation
  • Teacher/student conferences
  • Book of the Month

Reading

The student will:

  • Use letters and sound to read and spell simple single syllable words
  • Read simple text containing familiar letter sounds
  • Independent and/or partner reading for a sustained amount of time
  • Use one-to-one matching with finger when reading text
  • Pay attention to what is read
  • Determine that what is read makes sense
  • Relate their connections to self, text, and world
  • Notice unknown words and discuss their meaning

Evidence of this will be:

  • Teacher assessments
  • Teacher observation
  • Reading folders

Math

The student will:

  • Develop and use strategies for counting
  • Represent data in a variety of ways
  • Collect, record, and represent data
  • Organize a set of data in more than one way
  • Note similarities and differences in related objects
  • Sort a set of objects in more than one way
  • Discuss the information in data representations
  • Compose survey questions
  • Gather and record survey data
  • Make sense of data

Evidence of this will be:

  • Math folder
  • Teacher observation
  • Teacher assessments

Social Studies

The student will:

  • Listen to views and discuss stories, poems, and other media about selected men and women during historical periods of the United States
  • Listen to views and discuss stories poems, and other media about selected American symbols that have emerged from past events, legends, and historical accounts
  • Listen to views and discuss stories, poems, and other media about selected important buildings, statues, and monuments associated with state and national history

Evidence of this will be:

  • Teacher observations

Science

The student will:

  • Know that all living things have basic needs (food, water, shelter, space)
  • Know that plants and animals have different structural characteristics

Evidence of this will be:

  • Teacher observations

Health

The student will:

  • Tell ways to be neat and clean
  • Tell why sleep and exercise are important
  • Tell how not to spread germs
  • Be heart wise

Evidence of this will be:

  • Teacher observations

Expectations for home

The student will:

  • Be responsible for communicating information
  • Complete homework, when assigned

The parent will:

  • Check student’s folder nightly for homework, behavior, and information
  • Read and record books shared with child and return log weekly
  • Maintain an evening routine, i.e. nightly reading, healthy meal, minimum of 9 hours of sleep
  • Support and reinforce classroom/school rules and routines

Evidence of this will be:

  • Teacher checks
  • Student returns folder daily
  • Class reading log
  • Returned and signed report card slip