4th Nine Weeks
These expectations are available in a Word doc.
Writing
The student will:
- Make an effort to reread their own writing and listen actively to others
- May incorporate storybook language
- Maintains a focus
- Excludes extraneous information when prompted
- Uses literary forms and language
- Makes choices about the best word for the context meaning
- Rereads own text with 1:1 correspondence
- Pause in middle of writing to reread what is already written
- Leaves spaces between words
- Respond to literature in word and picture
- Continue writing from the different genres introduced during the year
- Frequently use a period as a marker to separate words or designate the end of each line of page
Evidence of this will be:
- Daily message
- Writing journals
- Writing portfolios
- Teacher/student conferences
- Author’s chair
- Book of the month
Reading
The student will:
- Identify onsets and rimes of single-syllable words
- Blend onsets and rimes to form words
- Read level “B” books that have been previewed but not read
- Read favorite stories with fluency
- Answer questions and draw conclusions
- Will discuss books and ask questions
- Uses newly learned vocabulary
- Learn new words everyday from talk and books
- Continue to use reading strategies introduced during the year
Evidence of this will be:
- Teacher assessments
- Teacher observations
- Reading portfolios
Math
The student will:
- Observe and describe 2D shapes
- Develop vocabulary to describe 2D shapes
- Relate 2D shapes to real world objects
- Visualize how to move a shape so that it is oriented correctly to fit into a design
- Find combination of shapes
- Build knowledge about the relationships among pattern block shapes
- Develop vocabulary to describe 3D shapes
- Recognize a penny, nickel and dime as well as know the values of each
- Know the difference between analog and digital clocks
- Tell time to the hour
- Combine and separate objects/numbers in story problems
Evidence of this will be:
- Teacher assessments
- Teacher observations
- Math portfolios
Social Studies
The student will:
- Listen to views and discusses stories, poems, and other media about selected men and women during historical periods of the United States
- Listen to views and discusses stories, poems, and other media about selected American symbols that have emerged from past events, legends, and historical accounts
- Listen to views and discusses 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 thins 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 exercises are important
- Tell how to not 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