Writing/Grammar:

v  Students will print daily work using taught letters correctly.

v  Students will print daily work legibly. 

v  Students will write a minimum of two sentences in their writing folder until 2^nd nine weeks midterm. At midterm this number will increase by one.

v  Students will put a capital letter at the beginning of the sentence.

v  Students will put punctuation at the end of the sentence (.  !  ?) . 

v  Students will identify and write in complete sentences.

v  Students will continue journaling; expressing thoughts in written form.

v  Students will continue to use a variety of writing forms to include but not limited to lists, letters, stories, and poems.

v  Students will use the grammar rules as they are taught in class. Expectation is once a rule is taught student will apply it in his/her daily writing.

Mathematics:

v  Students will begin learning subtraction facts.

v  Students will learn addition doubles plus one facts, adding 0 facts, adding 2 facts. 

v  Students will find a sum by counting on.

v  Students will identify identical designs.

v  Students will count by 10’s to 100 beginning at different numbers.

v  Students will order containers by capacity.

v  Students will locate and identify numbers on a 100 chart.

v  Students will count dimes and pennies, add to digit numbers using dimes and pennies   (no regrouping), and use the cent symbol.

v  Students will identify one half and one fourth.

v  Students will identify odd and even numbers.

v  Students will identify pairs.

v  Students will divide a square into halves and fourths.

v  Students will use a ruler to draw line segments.

v  Students will begin telling time to the hour and half hour.

v  Students will continue write numbers to 100+ in their 100 club folders.  Highest number each student writes is dependent upon the students individual ability.

v  Students will continue to learn about geometric shapes to include identifying congruent shapes.

v  Students will make and read simple graphs.

v  Students will read and answer simple addition and subtraction word problems. 

v  Students will continue to use math folders as supplemental mathematics work. No grades will be recorded from the math folders this includes the scores placed on Accelerated Math pages by the computer.

Handwriting

v  Students will form all letters taught correctly. Moving away from legible and toward forming letters correctly on the “lines and spaces”.

v  Students will form all numbers correctly.

Reading/Language Arts:

v  Recognizing that students who read nightly are able to pass 5 AR tests a week, students are only required to pass a minimum of 1 AR test per week. 

v  Students will have a specific goal based on the individual child’s abilities. Goal sheets went home on the last day of the 1^st nine weeks (10/10/08) One test grade for the nine weeks is based on this goal being met.

v  Students will take weekly AR test on a story read in class. This is the weekly story from the reading book. This story will not come home. Weekly test grades are recorded for these stories.

v  Students will continue to learn sight words – “Words to Know” at individualized rates.

v  Students will weekly read a passage to Mrs. Harper. The child will be assessed for fluency, letter sound identification, and the student’s ability to use taught context clues to read. The passages usually come from the “Book in a Bag” decodable readers that are practiced with Mrs. Fleming. No grade is recorded for this assessment.  

v  Students will use long and short vowels and sound symbols correctly.   

v  Students will demonstrate mastery of basic letter sounds.

v  Students will begin to use blends and digraphs in their spelling and writing.

v  Students will read text at their level with goal to increase every child’s reading level by end of 2^nd nine weeks. Student’s will take the STAR test at the end of the 2^nd nine weeks to assess their growth from the beginning of the school year.

v  Spelling Tests: Challenge words earn bonus points.  To earn bonus points challenge words must have everything correct.  This means no backwards letters, capital and lowercase letters used correctly, apostrophes used correctly. Spelling words will lose one point for each backward letter and each capital/lowercase confusion.     

v  Dictation Tests:  Dictation sentences will use words based on the spelling patterns learned. Students will write sentences correctly – words spelled correctly, capital and lowercase letters used correctly, punctuation at the end, etc…. During the 2^nd nine weeks, students will have “additional work” on the dictation sentence test. Students will be asked to identify those items that have been taught to include by not limited to: capital letter, ending punctuation, naming part, action part, noun, verb, and etc… After the 2^nd nine weeks mid-term an additional sentence will be given that will not come home to practice. Dictation Tests are recorded as a grammar grade.

v  Reading Logs will continue with no changes.

Work Habits:

v  Classwork will become more oral and less on the overhead.  Saxon phonics and math classwork side will continue to be completed with the use of the overhead.

v  Students will begin to read directions on worksheets aloud followed by teacher rereading and/or explaining.

v  More directions will begin before students work with fewer reminders as students work. 

v  Students will be given the opportunity to work independently, with partners, small groups, and whole group activities.

Conduct

    v  Students will continue to lose stars for behavioral issues.

v  Students will continue to be able to earn stars back up for minor behavioral issues, but it is a little harder in the 2^nd nine weeks to earn a star back up than it was in the first nine weeks.