Early Childhood and Pre-K

Mrs. Elizabeth,  Ms. Espinoza, Mrs. Daugherty, Mrs. Scott, Mrs. Davis

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Kindergarten

Mrs. Curtis, Mrs. Halleen, Ms. Sunley, Mrs. McNamee
 

The following skills will be introduced during the first 9 weeks in addition to skills listed on the Kindergarten report card.  These objectives will be ongoing throughout the year.

Reading

Develop oral language:

            Show evidence of expanding oral language through vocabulary growth.

            Give simple, two-step oral directions.

            Begin to retell familiar stories.

            Dramatize, retell, and dictate what has been learned.

Develop listening skills:

            Recognize the difference between formal and informal languages.

Demonstrate knowledge of concepts of print:

            Identify labels, logos, and signs in the environment.

            Understand that print has meaning.

“Pretend read” from left to right, top to bottom, and front to back as well as hold a book upright and turn pages.

Read and explain own writing and drawings.

Identify front cover and back cover of a book.

Distinguish letters from words.

Writing

Use a variety of pre-writing strategies:

          Brainstorm ideas with teacher and peers.

            Draws pictures to generate ideas.

            Construct graphic organizers in a small or large group to organize information.

            Use a variety of sources to gather information.

Elements of Language

Demonstrate knowledge of standard English usage:

            Use correct grammatical constructions in own speech.

            Use correct verb and verb tense in sentences when speaking.

Geometry

Analyze characteristics and properties of geometric shapes:

            Recognize examples of circles, squares, triangles, and rectangles in the environment and as faces of three-dimensional objects.

            Recognize basic properties of and similarities and differences between simple geometric figures.

            Create circles, squares, rectangles, and triangles.

            Create structures using three-dimensional shapes.

            Combine two-dimensional shapes to make pictures.    

Data Analysis and Probability

Develop, select, and use appropriate methods to collect, organize, display, and analyze data:

            Represent and compare data using concrete objects, pictures, and simple graphs.

Apply the basic concepts of probability:

            Describe events related to students’ experiences as likely or unlikely.

Science:  Interactions Between Living Things

Realize that organisms use their senses to interact with their environment:

            Recognize that humans have five senses

Earth and Its Place in the Universe

Recognize that different objects appear in the day and nighttime sky.

            Identify objects that appear in day and nighttime sky.

Recognize that there are predictable patterns that occur within the universe.

            Classify pictures as representative of day or night.

Social Studies:  Culture

Understand the diversity of human cultures:

          Identify personal attributes common to all people such as physical characteristics.

            Identify differences among people.

Economics

Give examples of the interaction of businesses and governments in a market economy:

          Recognize how jobs are similar and different from one community to another.

            Identify jobs in the home and school.

Understand fundamental economic concepts:

          Explain why people have jobs.

            Distinguish between needs and wants.

            Recognize all jobs are significant and realize some jobs are dependent on other jobs.

Geography

Understand how to use maps, globes, and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process and report information from a spatial perspective:

          Use personal directions such as up, down, left, right, near and far to describe relative direction.

            Locate places in community such as the student’s home and the classroom on the campus.

Recognize the interaction between human and physical systems around the world:

          Identify the human characteristics of places such as types of houses and ways of earning a living.

Governance and Civics

Discuss the structure and purposes of governance:

          Understand rules are created to protect an environment.

            Know that family structures can change.

            Identify authority figures in the home, school, and community.

            Explain how authority figures make and enforce rules.

Describe the Constitution of the United States and the Tennessee State Constitution in principle and practice:

          Recognize the need for rules for daily living and fair treatment of others.

            Identify purposes for having rules.

            Be aware that laws and rules are followed and created by the people, school, community, and country.

Understand the rights, responsibilities, and privileges of citizens living in a democratic republic:

          Know rules of safety including signs and signals.

            Define cooperation

Recognize the qualities of a contributing citizen in our participatory democracy:

          Identify the flags of the United States and Tennessee.

            Recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

History

Identify major events, people, and patterns in Tennessee, United States, and world history:

          Define history as the story of our past.

            Recall events in the past and present in order to recognize that individuals have a personal history

Illustrate a family history to demonstrate that every family has a heritage.

Individuals, Groups, and Interactions

Recognize the impact of individual and group decisions on citizens and communities:

          Know individuals choose jobs that affect their lives, families and communities.

            Explain the consequences of an individual’s decisions and actions.

The following skills will be introduced during the second 9 weeks in addition to skills listed on the Kindergarten report card.  These objectives will be ongoing throughout the year.

Reading

Develop oral language:

            Speak clearly, properly, and politely.

Begin to use rules for conversation (e.g., raise hands, take turns and focus

attention on speaker).

            Participate in group discussion.

            Participate in creative responses to text (e.g., response, discussion and dramatization).

            Ask and respond to questions from teacher and other group members.

            Use familiar texts for recitations.

Develop listening skills:

            Listen attentively to speaker for specific information.

            Use appropriate listening skills (e.g., does not interrupt, faces speaker, asks questions).

            Listen and respond to a variety of media (e.g., books, audio tapes, videos).

Develop and use pre-reading strategies:

            Recognize a purpose for listening.

            Relate background knowledge to make meaning from text.

            Make predictions about text.

            Use illustrations to preview the text.

            Participate in the creation of graphic organizers (e.g., KWL, charts).

            Connect to life experience the information and events in texts.

Develop and maintain a motivation to read.

          Visit libraries and regularly check out materials.

            Share storybooks, poems and environmental print.

            Identify favorite stories.

Writing

Show evidence of drafting and revision with written work.

          Write consonant-vowel-consonant words with teacher assistance.

            Participate in teacher lead experience stories.

Experience numerous publishing opportunities:

          Compose a variety of written works (e.g., published books, classroom books, experience stories).

            Incorporate illustrations and/or photographs.

Begin to experience various literary and media genres:

          Explore picture books.

            Explore alphabet and number books.

            Explore Mother Goose Rhymes and other rhyming books.

            Explore storybooks.

            Explore fairy tales.

            Explore poetry.

            Explore lyrics to songs.

            View various media genres (e.g., posters, pictures, photographs, films, videos).

            Participate in the creation of experience stories.

            Express thoughts, feelings, and experiences through illustrations, dictation or writing.

Write frequently across content areas:

            Participate in shared writing about social studies.

            Participate in shared writing about science.

            Participate in shared writing about math.

            Participate in shared writing about the arts and personal activities.

Write in response to literature:

            Use repetitive text to re-enact or retell stories.

Write in a variety of modes and genres:

            Illustrate and/or write in journals (e.g., temporary/conventional spelling, series of pictures, and recognizable print).

            Write friendly note using temporary/conventional spelling or with teacher assistance.

Elements of Language

Demonstrate knowledge of correct sentence structure:

            Use complete and coherent simple sentences when speaking.

            Use logical words and appropriate word order to complete sentences or to respond to questions.

Number and Operations

Understand numbers, ways of representing numbers, relationships among numbers, and number systems:

            Count backward from 10 to 1.

            Recognize equivalent sets of objects.

            Apply the language of ordinal numbers up to tenth.

Measurement

Demonstrate understanding of units of measure and measurable attributes of objects:

            Use words to describe temperature (e.g., hot, warm, cool, cold).

Apply appropriate techniques and tools to determine measurement:

          Recognize a thermometer as a way of measuring temperature.

            Recognize a calendar as a way of measuring time.

Life Science:  Cell Structure and Function

Recognize that living things are made up of smaller parts:

            Assemble and take apart objects to determine that most things are made up of parts.

Recognize that smaller parts of living things contribute to the operation and well being of entire organisms:

          Observe what happens when an object is missing a part.

Diversity and Adaptation Among Living Things

Recognize that living things have features that help them to survive in different environments:

          Know that different organisms tend to be found in different environments.

Earth and Space Science:  Atmospheric Cycles

Recognize daily and seasonal weather changes:

            Identify daily weather conditions, such as hot, cool, sunny, snowy, and rainy.

Realize that weather is associated with temperature, precipitation, and wind conditions and can be measured with tools and instruments:

            Associate clothing and activity choices with various types of weather.

Earth Resources

Recognize that there is a variety of earth materials which have basic observable and measurable properties:

          Recognize a variety of earth materials (e.g., rocks, pebbles, sand).

Realize that earth materials can be recycled or conserved:

          Classify objects as natural or manmade.

Physical Science:  Energy

Realize that the sun is the main source of earth’s heat and light energy:

          Identify the sun as the source of earth’s heat and light energy.

Recognize that sound is produced when objects vibrate:

          Identify different sounds and their sources.

Social Studies:  Culture

Understand the diversity of human cultures:

          Recognize individuals learn to do skills and customs from their culture.

            Recognize all cultures have family units where decisions are made.

Discuss cultures and human patterns of places and regions of the world:

          Identify similarities and differences of food, clothes, homes, games, and families in different culture.

            Compare family customs and traditions among cultures.

Recognize the contributions of individuals and people of various ethnic, racial, religious, and socioeconomic groups to the development of civilizations:

          Explain the value of family traditions and customs.

Economics

Describe potential costs and benefits of personal economic choices in a market economy:

          Identify basic human needs.

            Explain how basic human needs of food, clothing, shelter, and transportation are met.

            Understand people create shelter according to both culture and environment.

Geography

Understand how to use maps, globes, and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process and report information from a spatial perspective:

          Explain what a globe and map represent.

Governance and Civics

Discuss the structure and purposes of governance:

          Explain the use of voting as a method for group decision-making.

Understand the rights, responsibilities, and privileges of citizens living in a democratic republic:

          Define cooperation

History

Explain how to use historical information acquired from a variety of sources:

          Recognize each family has a family tree.

            Recall family stories and celebrations to develop a personal history.

Individuals, Groups, and Interactions

Recognize the impact of individual and group decisions on citizens and communities:

          Describe how individuals meet their needs and wants in different means.

            Explain that people learn in the context of families, peers, schools, and communities.

Understand how groups can effect change at the local, state, national, and world levels:

            Understand  cooperation is necessary  when working within large and small groups to complete tasks.

            Work independently and cooperatively to accomplish goals.

            Describe how groups are make up of people who work, play, or learn together and share common interests.     

The following skills will be introduced during the third 9 weeks in addition to skills listed on the Kindergarten report card.  These objectives will be ongoing throughout the year.

Reading

Develop and maintain phonemic awareness:

          Use sound stretching of one-syllable words to identify each phoneme

            (cat,/c/,/a/,/t/).

            Use sound blending of each separately spoken phoneme to make meaningful word

            (/m/,/o/,/m/ to mom).

            Segment one-syllable words into individual sounds and blend the sounds into whole words.

            Understand words are made up of one or more syllables (e.g., students clap syllables in words).

Develop and extend reading vocabulary:

            Build vocabulary by listening to literature and participating in discussions.

            Build vocabulary by experiencing a wide range of text types.

            Participate in shared reading.

            Begin to use word families and word walls.

Use active comprehension strategies to derive meaning while reading and check for understanding after reading:

          Asking questions about a text.

            Participating in discussions about text.

            Predicting what will happen next as a story is shared.

            Creating mental images of the story (e.g. characters, setting).

Introduce informational skills to facilitate learning:

          Recognize the family and community as resources for information.

            Recognize a variety of print sources (e.g. books, newspaper, magazines, and charts).

            Recognize sources of information (e.g. books, graphs, and computers).

Develop skills to facilitate reading to learn in a variety of content areas:

          Recognize that printed materials provide information.

            Use common illustrations to gain meaning from text.

Writing

Write for a variety of purposes:

          Write to entertain (e.g., pictures, shared writing).

            Write to inform (e.g., experience stories).

Write expressively using original ideas, reflections, and observations:

          Write, given time, place and materials.

            Maintain, with teacher assistance, examples of writing and drawings that express opinions and judgments (e.g., portfolio, journals, student-made books).

Write in response to literature:

            Dictate a new ending to a story.

            Create a drawing, picture, sign or other graphic symbols to respond to literature.

Elements of Language

Demonstrate knowledge of standard English mechanics:

          Write from left to right and top to bottom.

            Use appropriate capitalization when writing names.

            Recognize ending punctuation marks for statements and questions.

            Recognize capitalization at the beginning of sentences.

            Trace and transcribe letters and words correctly.

Demonstrate knowledge of standard English spelling:

          Attempt to spell simple words using pre- to early-phonetic knowledge, sounds of the alphabet, and knowledge of letter names.

Number and Operations

Understand numbers, ways of representing numbers, relationships among numbers, and number systems:

          Count sets of objects up to 20.

            Match quantities up to twenty with numerals.

            Represent quantities up to 20 on ten-frames.

            Order numbers less than 20.

            Express the relationship between two numbers less than 20 using the words less than, more than, or equal to.

            Identify the position of a whole number less than 20 on the number line.

            Use pictures of objects, such as a ten frame, to show one more or one less than any number to 20.

          Count by ones and tens to 50.

            Determine whether a figure has been divided in halves.

            Name and identify coins and their values.

Algebra

Represent and analyze patterns and functions:

          Identify patterns in the environment, in arrangements of objects, or in pictures.

            Recognize and extend a concrete, visual, or auditory two- or three-part repeating pattern.

            Create and describe a simple repeating pattern.

Measurement

Apply appropriate techniques and tools to determine measurement:

          Measure and estimate length using a variety of non-standard units.

            Distinguish between light and heavy objects.

            Tell time to the hour.

Physical Science:

Forces and Motion:  Realize the basic concept that forces can move objects (push/pull).

          Recognize that objects can move in different directions and at different speeds.

Structure and Properties of Matter:  Recognize that objects have observable properties that can change over time and under different conditions:

          Describe an object according to its simple properties (e.g., hard/soft, large/small).

Social Studies:  Culture

Discuss cultures and human patterns of places and regions of the world:

            Understand some differences among people are a result of their culture.

            Describe customs of the local community.

Geography

Demonstrate how to identify and locate major physical and political features on globes and maps:

            Describe personal connections to place, especially place as associated with immediate surroundings.

Governance and Civics

Recognize the qualities of a contributing citizen in our participatory democracy:

            Explain the reasons for national patriotic holidays such as President’s Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and Independence Day.

Individuals, Groups, and Interactions

Recognize the impact of individual and group decisions on citizens and communities:

            Give examples of how learning and physical development affect behavior.

Understand how groups can effect change at the local, state, national, and world levels:

            Recognize individuals have a space or develop an understanding of space and spatial relationships.        

The following skills will be introduced during the fourth 9 weeks in addition to skills listed on the Kindergarten report card.  These objectives will be ongoing throughout the year.

Reading

Develop listening skills:

          Follow simple, two step oral directions.

Develop and maintain phonemic awareness:

          Understand that a phoneme is one distinct sound.

            Recognize and produce rhyming words.

            Recognize words that have same beginning and ending sounds.

Develop and use decoding strategies:

          Recognize and name all upper and lowercase letters of the alphabet.

            Begin to understand that the sequence of letters in a written word represents the sequence of sounds in a spoken word.

            Use letter-sound matches to decode simple words.

            Understand that as letters of words change, so do the sounds (alphabetic principle).

Read to develop fluency, expression, accuracy and confidence:

          Read simple text containing familiar letter-sound correspondences and high frequency words.

            Recognize that intonation and volume of voice assists with meaning.

            Read as “an emergent reader” a favorite story with fluent intonation and phrasing.

Develop and extend reading vocabulary:

            Read some words by sight (e.g. the, has, an, can, run and color and number words).

            Use a picture dictionary to determine word meaning.

Use active comprehension strategies to derive meaning while reading and check for understanding after reading:

          Check for understanding after reading by:

                        recalling two to three step sequence of events

                   retelling story in own words

                        drawing conclusions based on evidence in the story

                        using pictures to discuss main idea

Read independently for a variety of purposes:

          Read to gain information.

            Read for enjoyment.

            Read to expand vocabulary.

Begin to experience various literary and media genres:

          Sequence events in a story (e.g., using books, videos, films).

Writing

Write for a variety of purposes:

          Write to acquire and exhibit knowledge (e.g., own name-first and last, letters, numbers).

Show evidence of drafting and revision with written work:

          Represent spoken language with illustrations and temporary and/or conventional spelling.

            Add descriptive words and details.

Include editing before the completion of finished work:

          Pause voluntarily in the midst of writing to interpret what has been written (tracking).

            Self corrects works in progress (e.g., pictures, shared writing).

Evaluate own and others’ writing:

          Use a simple rubric to evaluate own writing/pictures and group work (e.g., happy face, stickers).

            Discuss and react to writing.

            Review personal collection to determine progress.

Experience numerous publishing opportunities:

          Make use of technology to publish writing.

            Share orally completed work.

Write expressively using original ideas, reflections, and observations:

          Dictate stories (e.g., to tape recorder, to adult, to older student).

Elements of Language

Demonstrate knowledge of standard English mechanics:

          Form legible upper and lower case letters.

Demonstrate knowledge of standard English spelling:

          Spells own first and last name.

Number and Operations

Understand numbers, ways of representing numbers, relationships among numbers, and number systems:

          Write numerals up to twenty.

Understand meanings of operations and how they relate to one another:

            Use manipulatives to develop strategies for addition and subtraction of whole numbers.

            Use a variety of strategies to solve simple verbal story problems involving numbers 0 to 10.

Solve problems, compute fluently, and make reasonable estimates:

          Use words, actions, pictures, or manipulatives to solve problems.

Algebra

Use concrete, pictorial, and verbal representations to develop an understanding of the language and symbols of mathematics:

            Use manipulatives or pictures to demonstrate addition and subtraction sentences written symbolically involving numbers 0 to 5.

          Read and explain simple addition and subtraction number sentences written symbolically.

Social Studies:  Culture

Discuss cultures and human patterns of places and regions of the world:

            Explain how means of transportation may be diversified in different cultures in response to the environment.

Recognize the contributions of individuals and people of various ethnic, racial, religious, and socioeconomic groups to the development of civilizations:

          Recognize contributions of different cultures around the world.

Geography

Recognize the interaction between human and physical systems around the world:

          Describe how weather affects every daily life.

            Describe seasons.

Demonstrate how to identify and locate major physical and political features on globes and maps:

            Identify the concept of physical features as in mountains, plains, hills, oceans, and islands.

            Describe how landforms and bodies of water influence where and how people live.

Governance and Civics

Discuss the structure and purposes of governance:

          Recognize that a person born into a country is a citizen of that country.

History

Understand the place of historical events in the context of past, present, and future:

          Recognize that change occurs over time.

            Observe how sites in neighborhoods and communities change over time.

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1st grade

Mrs. Fuson, Mrs. Gibbs, Mrs. Smithson, Mrs. Sullivan and Ms. Verchota

First Grade Accomplishments

First Nine Weeks

Language Arts

Reading

Identify names of letters

Identify initial letter-sound relationships

Blend sounds together to form one-syllable words

Read familiar text with confidence and fluency

Demonstrate knowledge of print

            Read left to right, top to bottom

            Track print when being read to aloud

            Identify cover and title page of a book

Reflect punctuation in oral reading

Use illustrations for previewing and predicting text

Demonstrate the automatic recognition of high frequency words

Identify rhyming words

Manipulate word families and word wall words  

Writing

Print first and last name legibly

Draw pictures to generate ideas

Write left to right, top to bottom

Write in complete sentences

Demonstrate the use of capital letters in names of people, I, and at the beginning sentences

Spell high frequency words correctly

Spell three-and four-letter short vowel words correctly

Mathematics

Sort objects by two attributes

Create, identify and complete a repeating pattern

Identify and write numbers 0-12

Use manipulatives to represent sets 0-12

Interpret data from a simple graph

Identify sets as “greater than” or “less than”

Identify ordinal numbers to “tenth” (first, second, etc.)

Use counters, pictures, and symbols to add sums to 8  

Science and Social Studies

Manners                                                            Neighborhoods and maps

Pets                                                                 Animal habitats

Comparing and Measuring (STC Kit)                    Fire Safety

Careers                                                  

Behavior Goals

___Demonstrate self-control                    ___Organize materials

___Listen attentively                               ___Complete work independently

___Follow directions                               ___Work well in a group                                    

___Work quietly                                     ___Demonstrate responsibility

___Respect others                                 ___Complete homework

___Work and play safely                        ___Follow classroom rules

First Grade Second Nine Week Objectives

Language Arts

Reading

Begins to read orally with accuracy using appropriate pacing, intonation, and expression

Reads to gain information and build fluency

Recognizes errors in reading as they occur and self-corrects

Draws conclusion based on what has been read

Dramatizes and retells what has been learned, heard, or experienced

Identifies characters, events, and setting in print and non-print text

Recognizes main character

Determines whether selection in real or fantasy

Determines the problem in a story and discover its solution

Uses graphic organizers to aid in understanding material from informational text

Begins to automatically decode unknown words

Manipulate word families and word wall words (ed, et, ill, in, ake, ame)

Applies long and short vowel rules when decoding

Recalls three to four step directions

Writing

Uses knowledge of letter sounds and word parts to monitor and corr