First Nine Weeks Report Card Skills (ideas to help you practice these skills at home are in italics)
Second Nine Weeks Report Card Skills (ideas to help you practice these skills at home are in italics)
Third Nine Weeks Report Card Skills (ideas to help you practice these skills at home are in italics)
Fourth Nine Weeks Report Card (ideas to help you practice these skills at home are in italics)
Language Arts/Reading
- Spells own first name, both orally and written. (Have your child practice writing his/her name and spelling it aloud to you.)
- Sequences events in a story (e.g. using books, videos, films) (After reading a story, ask your child what happened first, next, last.)
- Recites poems, stories and songs from memory. (Be sure your child learns the poem of the week every week.)
- Names all uppercase letters. (Use flashcards to play a speed game or have the student see if they can beat you in naming letters.)
- Names all lowercase letters. (Same as above.)
- Builds vocabulary by participating in whole-class shared reading and discussions. (Reading a nightly bedtime story will add to your child's vocabulary.)
- Follows simple two-step oral directions to develop listening skills. (Give your child two-step directions and see if they can follow them. e.g.- Put on your coat and get your bag.)
- Speaks clearly, properly, politely and recognizes the difference between formal and informal language. (Always correct your child when they speak incorrectly. Baby talk is no longer cute.)
- Uses appropriate capitalization when writing names.
- Recognizes and produces rhyming words. (Ask your child if two words rhyme or not. Read Dr. Suess books and pick out the rhyming words.)
- Uses sound stretching of one syllable words to identify each phoneme or sound ( cat, /c/ /a/ /t/). (Give your child some words, such as bat, pig, mom, wet, and sun and ask them to stretch them.)
- Uses sound blending of each separately spoken phoneme or sound to make meaningful words (/m/ /o/ /m/, mom). (Give your child some sounds and ask them to guess the word, for example /d/ /o/ /g/, /g/ /e/ /t/, /n/ /a/ /p/.)
- Recognizes words that have the same beginning sounds. (Give your child three words, ask them which two start with the same sound.)
- Produces letter sounds in correspondence with appropriate letters.
(Using flash cards, have your child tell you the sound the letter makes instead of what the letter is.)
- Recognizes the need for capitalization at the beginning of the sentences. (Use the take-home books to find capitals and ask why they have a capital letter there.)
- Spells own last name, both orally and written.
- Uses discussions and illustrations to preview text, make predictions and to comprehend basic story elements (main idea, character, setting, plot).( Before reading a bedtime story, ask your child to look at the cover and predict what the story is going to be about. After reading the story, ask your child who the characters in the book were, where the story happened, and what happened.)
- Recognizes words that have the same ending sounds. (ask your child to listen to three words, and tell you which two words start with the same sound; ex. cat, wet, van)
- Uses letter-sound matches to decode simple words. (have your child practice reading words such as the following by making the sounds for each letter, and then putting those sounds together: ex. dog, cat, jet)
- Makes new words using common word families (e.g. p-at, b-at, c-at). (Show your child how to change the word "rat" to "mat" and then to "sat".)
- Reads 25 of the 100 most frequent sight words with ease (Have you been doing your rainbow words!)
- Reads simple text . (Be sure to let your child read their take-home book to you every night!)
- Recognizes the need for punctuation marks at the end of statements (periods) , questions (question marks), and emotions (exclamation marks). (Look for these in the books you read. Ask your child why it is there?)
- Spells simple words using phonetic knowledge of letters and sounds. (Practice spelling words such as: cat, mop, jet, pig, etc.)
- Demonstrates that words are made up of one or more syllables. (Practice clapping the parts of a word, ex.- butt-er-fly)
Writing
- Forms legible upper and lower case letters, without the use of a model.
- Writes on a page using correct directionality (left to right and top to bottom).
- Uses creative spelling to write independently (e.g. SKL ES GRAT= School is great!)
- Math
- Sorts objects and describes how they are sorted. (Sort things around the house like toys, laundry and dishes by color, size, shape and kind.)
- Name, identifies and describes characteristics or attributes of shapes. (circle, square, triangle, rectangle, hexagon and trapezoid) (Look for shapes around town and around your house. Point them out and ask your child to name them. Practice drawing circles, triangles, rectangles, and squares. Discuss how many sides and corners (vertices).)
- Identifies positional words. (e.g. right, left, over, under, on, inside, outside, above, below, between, forward, backward, top, middle, bottom, near and far) (Play a game where your child puts his/her favorite toy in different positions e.g. under, over, beside, between, on top, on bottom, left, and right.)
- Names and creates patterns.(Make patterns with household items e.g. silverware, colored cereal pieces.)
- Counts sets of objects to 25. (Count items around the house- e.g. food on your plate.)
- Counts backwards from 10 to 1. (Practice while driving in car.)
- Recognizes numbers 0-25. (Use flashcards and play games like you would with letters.)
- Matches quantities up to 25 with numerals. (Practice counting objects and then use number flash cards to select the number that shows how many you have.)
- Orders numbers 0 to 25. (Use flashcards to put numbers in order.)
- Identifies "equal to", "more than", and "less than" using 10 or fewer objects.
- Collects and counts data using a simple graph.
- Name, identifies and describes characteristics or attributes of solid figures. (sphere, cube, cone and cylinder) (Look for solid figures around town and around your house. Point them out and ask your child to name them. Discuss what shapes make-up the sides. Discuss how many sides and corners (vertices).)
- Uses words to describe time (e.g. day, night, morning, afternoon, yesterday, today and tomorrow). (Make a point of using these in conversation with your child and having him/her use them.)
- Recognizes the calendar as a way to measure time.
- Applies the language of ordinal numbers from first to tenth.
- Count by ones to 50. (Count in the car on the way to school or dinner.)
- Count by tens to 50. (Same as above.)
-Count by twos to 20.
- Writes numbers to 25, without a model.
- Tells time to the hour. (Let them use an old clock or watch to practice.)
- Names and identifies coins and their values. (Give them a small handful of various pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters. Tell them they can keep the ones that they can identify by name and value for their piggy banks.)
- Uses words to describe temperature (e.g. hot, cold, warm and cool) (Warm and cool are the hardest for them. Think fall=cool, spring=warm)
- Recognizes thermometer as a way to measure temperature.
- Compares length, weight, temperature and capacity of two objects. (Take out two objects such as pencil/crayon, small picture frame/large picture frame, and small bag/large bag. Ask your child the appropriate corresponding questions: Which is longer/shorter? Which is heavier/lighter? Which holds more/less? Don't forget to compare things that are hotter and colder.)
- Matches quantities zero-ten with written number words. (Practice counting objects and then use number word flash cards to select the number word that shows how many you have.)
- Orders number words zero-ten. (Use flashcards to put number words in order.)
- Adds single digit numbers with sum between 0-10.
- Subtracts using numbers 10 or less.
-- Solves simple story problems involving numbers 0-10.