Lower Elementary Outcomes

Life Skills: Personal Development

• Demonstrate self-confidence

• Plan and use time at school purposefully

• Maintain concentration on the work at hand until completion

• Keep possessions and workspace orderly

• Participate in group lessons

• Complete work in a timely manner

• Take pride in the quality of work

• Work collaboratively in pairs and in groups

• Retain and apply information

• Synthesize content from multiple sources to identify applicable information

• Accept guidance and redirection

• Transition to new work and new environments

• Advocate for self and peers

• Display motivation to pursue independent interests

• Search for ways to actively demonstrate abilities, skills, talents

• Reflect on previous experiences and make changes

• Display manners while eating, moving through public/shared spaces, and during competitions

• Accept constructive criticism

  Life Skills: Social Development

• Relate well to peers and adults; display sympathy/empathy

• Allow others to work without interruption or disruption

• Care for self, plants, animals, materials, and school environment

• Appropriately communicate needs to adults and peers

• Encourage positive behavior

• Work to resolve conflict

• Approach new social situations

• Attempt to solve conflicts independently and recognize when an adult is needed

• Honor others privacy

• Take on more responsibilities throughout the day through daily jobs

• Lead graciously with patience and example

  Reading

• Read with fluency and interest

• Display comprehension in a variety of ways and uses strategies when needed

• Read sight words

• Distinguish between fiction and nonfiction text

• Sequence a story or series of events

• Use prediction and inference skills

• Use resource books: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Glossary, Index

  Writing

• Write in Cursive

• Record work neatly and completely

• Combine simple sentences to form complex sentences.

• Identify parts of a paragraph

• Write paragraphs

• Paraphrase and summarize short passages on topics of interest

• Use the writing process: organize, pre-write, edit, final draft

• Express thoughts, opinions, and facts using resources and supported content

• Exercise all types of writing: Research, Personal Narrative, Biography, Autobiography, Creative/Imaginative, Compare/Contrast, Expository, Opinion, Poetry, Letter 

  Mathematics

  Numeration

• Read numbers into the millions place value 

• Write numbers into the millions place value

• Identify greater than less than into the millions

• Identify odd/even 

• Round numbers into the millions

  Operations

• Understand the concept of all four operations using whole numbers

• Correctly complete dynamic addition and subtraction into the millions without materials

• Correctly complete dynamic multiplication into the millions with multiple-digit multipliers without materials 

• Move towards abstraction with materials in dynamic division into the thousands (writing out algorithm)

• Memorize multiplication and division facts 0-5

• Complete word problems for all four operations

• Square numbers

  Money

• Identify coins and their values

• Quantify individual coins to make one dollar: 100 pennies, 20 nickels, etc

• Use dynamic addition going from cents to dollars

• Use dynamic subtraction to make change

  Fractions

• Read and write fractions into the hundredths 

• Read and write mixed numbers into the hundredths

• Identify equivalencies for ½, 1/3, ¼  

• Use materials to turn mixed numbers into improper fractions

• Use materials to turn improper fractions into mixed numbers

• Add and subtract dynamic mixed numbers with the same denominators

• Understand & complete word problems, adding and subtracting fractions and mixed numbers

  Geometry

• Identify geometric shapes and symmetry

• Identify geometric solids

• Use a ruler to draw vertical, horizontal, oblique, parallel, intersecting, and perpendicular lines.

• Identify, label, and draw with a ruler acute, right, obtuse, straight, and reflex angles

• Identify, label, and draw with a ruler equilateral, isosceles, scalene, right, and obtuse triangles.

• Find the perimeter of any straight-lined shape, squares and rectangles.

• Use pie and bar graphs to collect, analyze, and represent information 

• Use a ruler to properly measure inches

• Identify which unit of measurement best fits possible scenarios

• Estimate distance using different units of measurement

  
  

  Cultural Arts

• Explain the elements of the Creation of the Universe, solar system, earth

• Use a calendar to organize & identify days of the week, months of the year, their sequence, their season, & holidays

• Understand time measurement language: 24 hrs. in a day, 7 days in a week, 12 months in a year

• Tell time with an analog clock

• Calculate elapsed time

• Identify the fundamental needs of a civilization and how they relate to ancient civilization

• Identify significant people in world history 

• Summarize the history of U.S. national holidays

• Recognize how fundamental needs (transportation, clothing, defense, shelter, sustenance) relate to ancient civilizations

• Name and locate all seven continents.

• Locate the equator and prime meridian on a map or globe

• Construct a compass rose

• Locate North America, the USA, and Illinois on U.S. map

• Name and locate the Great Lakes

• Name a minimum of five countries on each continent

• Identify on a map or globe nomenclature for political geography: border, city, capital, legend, compass rose.

• Identify and locate the five oceans

  Science

  Zoology 

• Summarize the Interdependence of the Universe (We need plants and animals they do not need us)

• Identify and group vertebrates and invertebrates

• Identify and group vertebrates (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals)

• Explain life cycles: butterfly, frog

• Identify parts of each vertebrate

• Characterize the traits of all five vertebrates: movement, reproduction, covering, respiration, care for young, skeletons, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, predator, prey

• Identify, label, and explain the parts of a biome

• Research a topic and write an original thorough paragraph

  Botany

• Label and identify the parts of a plant

• Summarize the functions of each part of the plant

• Label and identify the parts of a root and the parts of a leaf

• Summarize the importance of trees

• Summarize the relationship between trees and animals

• Summarize the relationship between insects and flowers

  Geology

• Name the three types of rocks

•  Identify and label the layers of the earth

• Identify on a map or globe land and water form nomenclature for physical geography: coastline, mountain, ocean, sea, lake, cape, bay, gulf, peninsula, island, strait, isthmus, archipelago

• Explain how heat and pressure contribute to the rock cycle

• Summarize the parts and importance of rivers

• Summarize the parts and importance of mountains

• Summarize and identify the layers of the atmosphere