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