Dear Families,
Wow, I can't believe how quickly the year is going. We are now in the third and final trimester. This week are parent-teacher conferences. I am looking forward to meeting up with each of you to talk about how your child has done during second trimester. Also, during this week we will be having the buy 1 get 1 free book fair. I have also sent home book orders, if you are interested in ordering through the scholastic book order please send it in by Friday. Friday has become a school day now because of the amounts of snow days that we have had this winter. So, April vacation starts April 13-21. I hope that you are able to enjoy some beautiful weather during break! Below I have writing 3rd trimester's benchmarks.
Reading
*Reads at a level 16 or 18, according to the
Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA).
*Uses multiple strategies for solving unknown words
like: picture clues, rereading the sentence, reading
for meaning or applying phonics to decode words.
*When reading out loud, student reads in 5-6 word
phrases and uses punctuation to change their voices.
*Works to make predictions, retell, make connections,
ask and answer questions about
a story.
*Identifies the characters, setting, problem
and solution in a story.
*Identifies the headings, table of contents and
glossery in a nonfiction text.
*Reads 90-100 of the first grade sight words.
Writing
*Writes 5-6 simple sentences on a topic.
*Uses adjectives (descriptive words) in sentences.
*Uses punctuation at the end of a sentence and
capitalizes the first word of a sentence, names of
people and the word I.
*Uses appropriate spacing between words.
*Begins to spell words with common spelling patterns.
Math
*Solves problems that require the addition of 3 whole
numbers (2+3+5=).
*Uses strategies like counting on, doubles, +/- 1,
counting back and fact families to solve addition and
subtraction problems.
*Adds or subtracts 10 math problems accurately in 2
minutes.
*Reads, writes and compares numbers to 120.
*Measures obects to the nearest whole unit.
*Reads and writes time to the hour and half hour.
*Answers simple questions about a graph.
*Describes, names and compares 2-D and 3-D shapes.
*Divides circles and rectangles into halves and
quarters.
Spelling
We will be replacing the challenge words with a
sentence that will be dictated to the children. We will
expect kids to use appropriate upper and lower case
letters. We will be looking for letters to be sitting
properly on the line and for appropriate spacing between
the words. These are conventions that we have been
working on with our handwriting program. We have also
talked about these conventions during our writing time.
