Second Nine Weeks Expectations

Writing/Grammar:

• Students will print daily work using taught letters correctly.
• Students will write a minimum of two sentences in their writing folder until 2^nd nine weeks mid term.  At mid term this number will increase by one.
• Students will put a capital letter at the beginning of the sentence.
• Students will put punctuation at the end of the sentence (.  !  ?) . 
• Students will continue to use a variety of writing forms to include but not limited to lists, letters, stories, and poems.
• 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:

• Students will begin learning subtraction facts.
• Students will learn addition doubles plus one facts, adding 0 facts, adding 2 facts. 
• Students will begin adding two digit numbers without regrouping
• Students will find a sum by counting on.
• Students will identify identical designs.
• Students will count by 10’s to 100 beginning at different numbers.
• Students will order containers by capacity.
• Students will locate and identify numbers on a 100 chart.
• Students will count dimes and pennies, add to digit numbers using dimes and pennies   (no regrouping), and use the cent symbol.
• Students will begin adding two digit numbers using dimes and pennies without regrouping.
• Students will identify one half and one fourth.
• Students will identify odd and even numbers.
• Students will identify pairs.
• Students will divide a square into halves and fourths.
• Students will use a ruler to draw line segments.
• Students will begin telling time to the hour and half hour.
• Students will continue write numbers to 100+ in their 100 club folders.  Highest number each student writes is dependent upon the students individual ability.
• Students will continue to learn about geometric shapes to include identifying congruent shapes.
• Students will make and read simple graphs.
• Students will read and answer simple addition and subtraction word problems. 

Handwriting

• Students will form all letters taught correctly.  Moving from legible to forming letters correctly on the “lines and spaces”.
• Students will form all numbers correctly.
• Students are expected to do their individual best handwriting on all classwork and homework.

Reading/Language Arts:

• Students are required to take and pass a minimum of one AR tests per week. 
• Students will have a specific goal based on the individual child’s abilities. Goal sheets will go home the first week of the 2^nd nine weeks.  One test grade for the nine weeks.
• Students will take a weekly comprehension test on a story read in class.  This is the weekly story from the reading book that is read and discussed in class in both whole group and small groups.
• Students will continue to learn sight words – “Words to Know” at individualized rates.
• Students will weekly read a passage to the teacher.  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.
• Students will use long and short vowels and sound symbols correctly. 
• Students identify and read words on their individual level.
• Students will demonstrate mastery of letter sounds.
• Students will begin to use blends and digraphs in their spelling and writing.
• Students will read text at their level with goal to increase every child’s reading level by end of 2^nd nine weeks.   Students 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.
• On the spelling test 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. 
• After 2^nd nine weeks mid-term Spelling words will lose one point for each backward letter and each capital or lowercase confusion.   
• Students will write dictation sentences.  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, and correct spacing between letters. These sentences will earn a grammar grade.  All dictation sentences will continue to come home during the 2^nd nine weeks.  Students will have “additional work” on the dictation sentence. 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…
• Reading Logs will continue to be assessed weekly with one grade at the end of the nine weeks for the overall completion of weekly reading logs.

Work Habits:

• Students will write their name on their papers. Papers with no names will lose 5 points before the rest of the paper is graded.
• Classwork will become more oral and less on the overhead.  New Saxon phonics and math classwork will continue to be completed with the use of the overhead. Students will be expected to complete review information in these two areas without the assistance of the teacher writing on the overhead.
• Students will begin to read directions on worksheets out loud followed by teacher rereading and/or explaining out loud.
• More directions will begin before students work with fewer reminders as students work. 
• Students will work independently, with partners, small groups, and whole group activities.

 Conduct

·         Students are expected to adhere to the school’s code of conduct.

·         Students will continue to lose stars for behavioral issues.

·         Students will continue to earn stars back up for the 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.