Standards for the First Nine Weeks
Language Arts
Reading:
* Demonstrates ability to read orally with speed, accuracy, and expression (90 words per min.)
* Accquires and uses grade-level words to communicate effectively (Uses context clues and infers
meaning in reading grade-level literary tests, phrases and words (homophones, homographs,
antonyms, and synonyms, root words, prefixes and suffixes)
* Uses a variety of strategies to gain meaning from grade-level text (fiction/nonfiction). (Makes
connections, makes predictions and infers, generates questions, self-monitors comprehension,
recall explicit facts, draws conclusions, and retells)
* Recognizes and compares and contrasts elements between texts (plot, setting, characters,
author's purpose)
* Identfies the basic elements of a a variety of genres (fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry)
Writing
* Uses genre specific srategies (Writes person and fantasy stories using voice, sensor details,
setting and plot)
* Creates an organized structure (Uses an organization structure to write a well developed
beginning, middle, and end)
* Uses resources to research and support writing (Uses resources such as the dicitionary
and thesaurus)
Conventions
* Identifies and uses appropriate grammar in complete sentences (Identifies subject/verb
agreement in complete sentences)
* Uses appropriate capitalization and punctuation
* Uses common rules of spelling
* Writes legibly
Social Studies
* Explains the political roots and basic principles of our modern democracy (compares and
contrasts governments of the U.S. and Greece; identifies how Ancient Greece influenced U.S.
architecture and the Olympics)
* Locates major geographical features of the U.S.(equator, prime meridian, lines of latitude
and longitude, and Greece on a world map)
Science
* Investigates Earth, LIfe, and Physical Science concepts (Recognizes and explains differences
in physical attributes (shape, color, texture, hardness) between a variety of rocks and
minerals)
* Applies and identifies scientific knowledge ( Investigates various fossils and describes how they
were formed)
Math
* Represents numbers (Whole numbers through ten thousands )(word name, standard
and expanded form) and understands relative size of digits.
*Understands and uses addition and subtraction
* Applies problem solving using addition and subtraction
* Understands money concepts (Counts back change using additon and subtraction)
* Understands concepts of measurement (Determines elapsed time to the full and half hour)
* Creates, organizes and interprets date (Organizes, constucts, and interprets data using bar graphs,pictographs, Venn diagrams and simple charts/table)
HOMEWORK: Homework is assigned nightly with the exception of Friday. Assignments consists of Spelling, Math, Reading, and at times Science or Social Studies. Homework will be posted in yourchild's daily Agenda. If your child's homework is taking an inordinate amount of time, please contact me.
