Whatarethebigideasmychildwillbelearning

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Kindergarten
WhatstudentsshouldknowcomingintoKindergarten:
1. Knowscolorsandshapes
2. Howtowritenamelegiblyincorrectupper/lowercaseletters
3. Canrecognize#110andcounttoatleast10
4. Knowsaround50%ofupper/lowercaseletters
5. Knowledgeofrhyming

Bigideasstudentsshouldknowbeforeleavingkindergarten:
1. Writeacompletesentence(capitalletter,endmark,spacing)
2. Identifyall52letters/sounds
3. Identify/write#120andcount1100
4. Knowsshapes2Dand3D
5. ReadatalevelBorhigher(TRC)
6. Canproduceandidentifyrhymes
7. Understandtheconceptsofadditionandsubtractionusingpictureswithin10

1stGrade
Whatstudentswillbelearningin1stGrade:

1. HowtofluentlyreadandcomprehendtextatTRCLevelF/G.
2. Howtoretelltextinsequence,includingkeydetails,anddemonstrateunderstandingof
themainidea.
3. Uselettersoundknowledgeofsingleconsonants(hardandsoftsounds),shortandlong
vowels,consonantblendsanddigraphs,vowelteams(e.g.,ai)anddigraphs,and
rcontrolledvowelstodecodephoneticallyregularwords.
4. Writeastorywithbeginningsentence,3ormoredetails,andconcludingsentenceusing
correctcapitalizationandpunctuation.
5. CorrectlyreadandspellCVCwords,wordswithcommonspellingpatterns,andhigh
frequencywords.

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Recognizeandreadnumbersto100.Countto120byones,fives,andtens.
Demonstratefluencyofadditionandsubtractionfactsto20.
Identifyplacevalueconceptsof2digitnumberswithtensandones.
Telltimetothenearesthourandhalfhourusingdigitalandanalogclocks.
Identifyandcountacollectionofdimes,nickels,andpennies.

6. Identifyobjectsastwodimensionalorthreedimensional.(2D:rectangles,squares,
trapezoids,triangles,halfcircles,andquartercircles)(3D:cubes,cylinders,pyramids,
cones,etc.)

2ndGrade
Whatstudentswillbelearningin2ndGrade:
1. Useknowledgeofthesixmajorsyllablepatterns(CVC,CVr,V,VV,VCe,Cle)todecode
twosyllablewords,independentofcontext.
2. Recountthebeginning,middle,andendingofstories,includingfablesandfolktalesfrom
diversecultures,anddeterminetheircentralmessage,lesson,ormoral.
3. Usevarioustextfeatures(e.g.,tableofcontents,index,headings,captions)tolocatekey
factsorinformationandexplainhowtheycontributetoandclarifyatext.
4. Identifyrelationshipsamongwords,includingcommonsynonymsandantonyms,and
simplemultiplemeaningwords(e.g.,change,duck).
5. Respondtocomprehensionquestionsincompletesentencesbyrestatingthequestion
andcitingevidencefromthetext.
6. Abletorespondtocomprehensionstrategiessuchasmainideaanddetails,causeand
effect,problem/solution,inferencing,compareandcontrast,summarizing,and
predicting.
7. Writeparagraphswithcompletesentencesandproperpunctuation.
8. Identifynouns,pronouns,verbs,adjectives,andadverbs.
9. IdentifythepartsofandbeabletowriteaFriendlyLetter
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1. Countbyones,twos,fives,tens,andhundredsuptoatleast1,000fromanygiven
number.
2. Read,andwritewholenumbersupto1,000.Usewords,models,standardformand
expandedformtorepresentandshowequivalentformsofwholenumbersupto1,000.
3. Determinewhetheragroupofobjects(upto20)hasanoddorevennumberof
members.
4. Beabletoaddandsubtractthreedigitnumberswithandwithoutregrouping.Showthat
numberscanbeaddedinanyorder.Decidewhetheranswersarereasonablein
additionproblems.
5. Identify,describe,andclassifytwoandthreedimensionalshapes(triangle,square,
rectangle,cube,rightrectangularprism)accordingtothenumberandshapeoffaces
andthenumberofsidesand/orvertices.Drawtwodimensionalshapes.
6. Estimateandmeasurethelengthofanobjectbyselectingandusingappropriatetools,
suchasrulers,yardsticks,metersticks,andmeasuringtapestothenearestinch,foot,
yard,centimeterandmeter.

7. Tellandwritetimetothenearestfiveminutesfromanalogclocks,usinga.m.andp.m.
Solverealworldproblemsinvolvingadditionandsubtractionoftimeintervalsonthehour
orhalfhour(elapsedtime).
8. Identifyandfindthevalueofacollectionofpennies,nickels,dimes,quartersanddollars.
9. Masteryofsingledigitadditionandsubtractionfacts.

3rdGrade
Whatstudentswillbelearningin3rdGrade:

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Identifyanddescribealltextstructuresinnonfictiontext
Identifytheme
Describecharacters
Determinethemainideaandsupportingdetailsofatext
Distinguishpointofviewinbothliteratureandnonfiction
Applyknowledgeoftextfeatures
Readandcomprehendcomplextextandbeabletosynthesizetheinformationina
varietyofways
8. Abletowritemultiparagraphsinallthreewritinggenreswithproperconventions
9. Determinefigurativelanguageprovidesmeaningtothetext

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Masteryofmultiplicationanddivisionfacts
Identifyoperationsandstepstosolverealworldproblems
Understandfractionsandbeabletoidentifyequivalentfractions
Applicationofthepropertiesofadditionandmultiplication
Understandplacevalue...readandwritewholenumbersuptotenthousand(word,
expanded,andstandardform)
Estimatingandroundingnumberstothenearestthousand
Findingareaandperimeter
Timeintervalsandusingtimeinrealworldproblems
Masteredtellingtimetotheminute

4thgrade
Whatstudentswillbelearningin4thGrade:

ApplicationofCompare/Contrast
Refertodetailsandexamplesinatextwhenexplainingwhatatextsaysexplicitlyand
whendrawinginferencesfromthetext(Drawingconclusion,inferences,
problem/solution)
DIfferencesingenresandtextstructure
ExpandingRAPS

Findthemainideaandsupportwithdetails(RAPS)
Knowhowtofindthemeaningsofunknownwordsusingcontextclues,dictionaries,and
thesauruses
Readfluentlyatafourthgradelevel
Compareandcontrastpointofviewinhowdifferentstoriesarenarrated.
Usingdifferentsentencetypesinwritingusingpropergrammar(partsofspeech)
Applyingfigurativelanguageinwriting
Prewritingorganizeinformationwithoutagivenorganizer
Understandtheprompt,beabletodeterminewhatgenreofthepromptis,andapply
appropriatewritingprocesstoanswertheprompt
Grammar/Punctuationcapitalization,properusageofpunctuationunderstandingwhat
apronoun,noun,adjective,adverbis

Placevalueuptomillions
MultiplicationandDivisionfactsupto10
Applyareaandperimeterformulaforrectangularandcomplexshapes
LongDivision
Multiplication2digitby2digit
Fractions(addingandsubtractingwithcommondenominatorscanrequireregrouping,
simplify,equivalent,compare,convertimproperandmixednumber,decimalequivalents,
andonnumberlines.Denominators2,3,4,5,6,8,10,25,100)
Measurement(convertingandsolvingmeasurementwordproblems)

5thGrade
What students will be learning in 5th Grade:

UnderstandingthatwordshaveGreek/Latinrootsandknowtheirmeanings
Fluentlywritinginallgenres
Abletocreateabasicpresentationusingmedia
Readtextsfluentlyat5thgradelevelwhileapplyingcomprehensionstrategies
Masteryatfindingevidenceinatexttosupportananswer

AlloperationswithDecimals
AlloperationswithFractions
Areaofallshapes/Volumeofrectangularprisms
FluentlyMultiplyingandDividingMultiDigitWholeNumbers
Fluentlybreakdownandsolvemultistepproblems