Math Expectations
Students should be able to...
Quarter 1 Math
Students should be able to...
Quarter 1 Math
- Understand that the three digits of a three-digit number represent amounts of hundreds, tens, and ones.
- Read and write numbers to 1,000 using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form.
- Compare two three-digit numbers based on meanings of the hundreds, tens, and ones digits, using >, =, and < symbols to record the results of comparisons.
- Determine whether a group of objects (up to 20) has an odd or even number of members, e.g., by pairing objects or counting them by 2s; write an equation to express an even number as a sum of two equal addends.
- Count within 1,000; skip-count by 5s, 10s, and 100s.
- Mentally add 10 or 100 to a given number, 100 – 900.
- Mentally subtract 10 or 100 to a given number, 100 – 900.
- Fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies.
- Fluently add and subtract within 100 using strategies like place value or inverse operations.
- Draw a picture graph or a bar graph to compare and represent data using up to four categories.
- Explain how addition and subtraction operations are inversely related.
- Understand that arrays represent repeated addition to reach a sum.
- Solve word problems involving dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies using dollar sign and cent sign symbols appropriately.
- Tell and write time from analog and digital clocks to the nearest five minutes using a.m. and p.m.
- Tell how many hours in a day, days in a week, days in a month, days in a year, weeks in a year and months in a year.
- Determine elapsed time in hours.
- Recognize and draw shapes having specified attributes, such as a given number of angles or a given number of equal faces.
- Identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes.
- Divide a rectangle into rows and columns of same-sized squares and count to find the total number of them.
- Divide circles and rectangles into two, three, or four equal shares, describe the shares using the words halves, thirds, half of, a third of, etc., and describe the whole as two halves, three thirds, four fourths.
- Recognize that equal shares of identical wholes do not have to be the same shape.
- Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve one- and two-step word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together and taking apart.
- Add up to four two-digit numbers using strategies based on place value and properties of operations.
- Fluently add and subtract within 100 using strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction.
- Fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies.
- Know from memory all sums of two one-digit numbers (ie: 1+1, 2+5)
- Add and subtract within 1,000, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations or inverse relationships.
- Estimate lengths using units of inches, feet, centimeters, and meters.
- Measure lengths using units of inches, feet, centimeters, and meters.
- Measure the length of the object twice using a variety of units for the two measurements and describe how two measurements relate to the size of the unit chosen.
- Tell how many inches are in a foot, feet are in a yard, and inches are in a yard.
- Measure the length of an object by selecting and using appropriate tools such as rulers, yardsticks, meter sticks, and measuring tapes.
- Measure to determine how much longer one object is than another, expressing the length difference in terms of a standard length unit.
- Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve word problems involving lengths that are given in the same units.
- Use drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.
- Represent whole numbers as lengths on a number line with equally spaced points corresponding to the numbers 0, 1, 2, etc.
- Represent whole-number sums and differences within 100 on a number line diagram.
- Find measurement data by measuring lengths of several different objects to the nearest unit or by making repeated measurements of the same object.
- Use a thermometer to measure the temperature in degrees Fahrenheit.
- Estimate temperature in degrees Fahrenheit.
- Use a thermometer to measure the temperature in degrees Celsius.
- Estimate temperature in degrees Celsius.
- Tell how many cups are in a pint.
- Measure and estimate the capacity of a container using cups.
- Measure and estimate the capacity of a container using pints.
- Estimate which of two objects is heavier.
- Determine the weight of a given object by using another object.
- Explain why there needs to be a fixed unit of weight when measuring objects.
English/Language Arts Expectations
Students should be able to...
Quarter 1- Understand story structure (characters, setting, major events, plot).
- Recognize the beginning of the story introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.
- Describe how characters respond to major events.
- Compare and contrast stories.
- Ask and answer who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding.
- Use information from illustrations to aid in understanding.
- Use sentence level context as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word.
- Make predictions when reading.
- Recognize common abbreviations.
- Spell basic sight words correctly.
- Write personal narratives (stories about an event or experience from one’s own life) that include a beginning, events in order, and an ending.
- Write complete sentences with correct capitalization and punctuation.
- Categorize between nouns and verbs.
Quarter 2- Identify the main topic of a nonfiction text.
- Ask and answer who, what, where, when, why, and how questions to demonstrate understanding of a nonfiction text.
- Use context and pictures to find the meaning of unknown words.
- Know and use text features (i.e., table of contents, index, headings, captions).
- Identify how a nonfiction text is structured to compare and contrast. (i.e., Lions and Tigers, Whales and Dolphins, Butterflies and Moths)
- Spell basic sight words correctly.
- Write informative texts introducing a topic, providing facts and details, and ending with a concluding statement.
- Write friendly letters capitalizing the greeting, titles and initials in names, and using commas correctly in the greeting and closing.
- Retell fables and folktales including the beginning, middle, and end.
- Determine the theme or central message, lesson, or moral in fables and folktales.
- Distinguish the differences in the points of view of the characters.
- Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same fable or folktale.
- Describe how ideas are connected in a nonfiction text.
- Identify how a nonfiction text is structured to describe a procedure (recipe or how to do something).
- Identify how a nonfiction text is structured to show a cause and effect relationship (The Effects of Hurricane Katrina).
- Spell basic sight words correctly.
- Understand the meaning of compound words.
- Correctly form contractions.
- Correctly read and write words with common prefixes.
- Write persuasive pieces that introduce a topic, states an opinion, supplies multiple reasons, and provides a conclusion.
- Write compound sentences correctly.
- Read nonfiction texts and determine how and why things happen.
- Compare and contrast two texts on the same topic.
- Identify the main idea of a nonfiction text.
- Describe how the author uses facts to support specific points.
- Identify the main purpose of a text (to answer, explain, or describe).
- Spell basic sight words correctly.
- Correctly read and write words with common suffixes.
- Determine the meaning of multiple meaning words (i.e., duck, bat, change).
- Research a topic by gathering information.