IN OUR PRE-K CLASSROOM
The Pre-Kindergarten team aims to foster the social and emotional, intellectual, and physical development of our children while enhancing their curiosity and sense of self. Along with the curriculum, we will focus on the following domains:
- Social & Emotional Development
- Language & Communication
- Emergent Literacy Reading
- Emergent Literacy Writing
- Mathematics
- Science
- Social Studies
- Fine Arts
- Physical Development
- Technology Applications
SCHOOL EXPECTATIONS FOR STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
Students will be able to:
- Identify the eight basic colors and the four common shapes
- Sort objects that are the same and different into groups
- Identify and create a pattern
- Count to 30 with no errors
- Identify numbers 0-10 and make the number sets
- Identify all upper- and lower-case letters and their sounds
- Produces a word that begins with the same sound as a given pair of words
- Recognize rhyming words
- Draw, color, and cut with control
- Write their name
Our goal is to help our Pre-K students develop and acquire these concepts and skills to better prepare them not only in their Pre-K school year but also beyond.
IN OUR KINDER CLASSROOM
- The Kindergarten team will work with students and their families to support success in reading and math. Some of our key connections with families will be:
- Utilize the daily take home folder that will be sent home to review sight words, 100’s chart, shapes, and coin chart.
- Encourage families to read together nightly for a minimum of 20 minutes.
School Expectations for Student Achievement
- All students will make continual progress in Reading. (Must be at a Level D to be promoted. Must know a minimum of 25 sight words.)
- All students will increase math performance through use of Guided Math. (Must be able to count to 100, solve problems to 10, recognize and write numbers to 20.)
- Writer’s Workshop will be used to increase all student’s writing performance. (Must be able to write my first name and write a complete sentence by the end of the year.)
- Increase family participation to help student success.
IN OUR FIRST-GRADE CLASSROOM
- The first-grade team will collaborate with teachers and specialists, and work with students and their families to help maximize student success to the highest level of learning.
- Our vision is to equip our students with every tool needed to positively change the world.
EXPECTATIONS FOR STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
- Developing and sustaining foundational language skills in listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking.
- Developing a robust sense of numbers by understanding and applying place value, solving problems involving addition and subtraction, and using relationships within the numeration system to understand the sequential order of the counting numbers and their relative magnitude.
- Observing and describing the natural world using their senses and through scientific inquiry in order to develop and enrich their abilities to understand the world around them in the context of scientific concepts and processes.
- Building a foundation in history, geography, economics, government, citizenship, culture, science, technology, and society.
In our Classroom:
We will work with students and their families to support success in reading and math and to ensure the continued academic and social/emotional growth of all students.. Teachers will provide engaging enrichment activities that strengthen all academic skills.
School Expectations for Student Achievement:
In Reading and Writing we develop and sustain foundational language skills by listening, speaking, reading, writing, researching and thinking in the following genres:
- Traditional literature
- Fiction and Contemporary literature
- Informational texts
- Poetry
- Drama
- Persuasive.
- In Math we use mathematical processes to acquire and demonstrate understanding in the following topics:
- Whole numbers
- Addition & Subtraction (2 & 3 digit numbers)
- Fractions
- Place Value
- Geometry
- Measurement
- Data analysis
- Personal financial literacy
All students will be actively engaged with hands-on experiences in Science and Social Studies
3rd Grade In Third Grade, we strive to build independent thinkers and real-world problem solvers. We encourage students to become productive citizens and lifelong learners. The 3rd Grade Team will collaborate with families and students to provide quality, engaging instruction to help students reach their highest potential. Some of our commitments are:
- Provide engaging activities that strengthen and enrich all academic skills
- Maintain an open-door policy and willingness to work collaboratively to ensure the continued academic, social, and emotional growth of all students
3rd Grade
- Utilize student agendas to keep account of daily objectives and classroom behavior
- Read at home for a minimum of 20 minutes and practice math facts fluently, daily
- All students will improve skills in all subject areas through targeted instruction and interventions
- All students will actively participate
- All students will complete daily assignments in all subject areas
- All students will attend class daily since absences affect a student’s success throughout the school year
The fourth-grade team pledges to work collaboratively with students and their families to support success in reading, math, and writing. Some of our key commitments are:
- Provide engaging enrichment activities that strengthen all academic skills
- Assist parents in helping their child dig deeper in their reading by inferencing, making connections, and using context clues to determine the unknown words
- Allow students to develop their writing skills across genres
- Maintain an open-door policy and a willingness to work collaboratively to ensure the continued academic social and emotional growth of all students
- All students will make continual progress in Reading through targeted instruction and interventions
- All students will increase math performance through targeted instruction and interventions
- Writer’s Workshop will be used to increase all students’ writing performance
- All students will be actively engaged with hands-on experiences in Science and Social Studies
- Increase familial capacity and participation to aid in student success
- Students will learn life-long practices related to health and fitness
- All students will attend class consistently. Absences will affect a student’s success throughout the school year
5th Grade Goals for Our Students
In 5th grade we strive to build independent thinkers and real-world problem solvers. We encourage students to become productive citizens and lifelong learners. The 5th grade team collaborates weekly to plan and implement high quality, engaging instruction to help each student reach their highest potential. We want to ensure student success during their final year in elementary school and help prepare our students for the journey to become successful middle school scholars.
5th Grade Expectations for Student Achievement
- Use student agendas to keep account of daily assignments or ongoing projects
- Read at home for a minimum of 20 minutes and practice multiplication fluency daily
- Be proactive in learning by asking for help on assignments when needed
- Complete all assignments and projects in a timely manner as assigned
- Parental involvement in students academics to aid in student success
5th Grade Academic Topics
In Reading and Writing we develop and sustain foundational language skills by listening, speaking, reading, writing, researching and thinking in the following genres:
- Traditional literature
- Fiction and Contemporary literature
- Informational texts
- Poetry
- Drama
- Persuasive
In Math we use mathematical processes to acquire and demonstrate understanding in the following topics:
- Whole numbers
- Decimals
- Fractions
- Graphing on coordinate plane
- Geometry
- Measurement
- Data analysis
- Personal financial literacy
In Science we conduct scientific investigations and apply reasoning skills in both our classrooms and Science lab in the following topics:
- Physical properties of matter
- Force, motion and energy
- Natural, renewable and non-renewable resources
- Changes to Earth’s surface
- Weather and climate
- Sun, moon, and planets
- Organisms and environments
- Adaptations and behaviors of plants and animals
In Social Studies we apply critical thinking and communication skills by working independently and with others in the following topics:
- Geography of the United States
- Colonial America
- American Revolution
- Constitution and Government
- Westward Expansion and Reconstruction
- The United States in the 20th and 21st Century
- American Identity and Citizenship
