K-5 Achievement Record 2017-2018
Kindergarten
Kindergarten Characteristics of Successful Learners
Listens to and follows directions
Works well with others
Follows school and classroom rules
Demonstrates self control
Works independently
Stays on task
Does personal best
Completes assignments in a timely manner
Participates in group discussions/activities
Kindergarten Social Studies: A Child's Place in Time
This is the time for children to begin to form concepts about the world beyond their own classrooms and communities. Culture,
heritage and democratic principles are explored, building upon the foundation of the classroom experience. Children deepen their
learning about themselves and begin to form an understanding of roles, responsibility for actions and decision making in the
context of the group setting.
History
Geography
Government
Economics
Kindergarten Science: Observations of the Environment
This theme focuses on helping students develop the skills for systematic discovery to understand the science of the natural world
around them in greater depth by using scientific inquiry
Earth and Space: Daily and Seasonal Changes
Physical Science: Properties of Everyday Objects and Materials
Life Science: Physical and Behavioral Traits of Living Things
Kindergarten Health: Healthy Foods
Meeting grade level standards
Kindergarten Reading Level
Your childs Instructional Reading Level: (Below, On, Above)
Reading: Literature
With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text. Retell familiar stories. Identify characters,
settings, and major events in a story. Name and define role of author and illustrator. Compare and contrast adventures and
experiences of characters in familiar stories. Use prior knowledge to make text to self and text to text connections and
comparisons.
Reading: Informational
Ask and answer questions about key details in nonfiction text. Identify the main topic and retell key details. Describe the
connection between people, events, ideas or information in the text. Identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a
text. Identify similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic.
Reading: Foundational
Follow words left to right, top to bottom and page to page. Recognize that spoken words are represented by specific sequences of
letters and words are separated by spaces. Recognize and name all upper and lowercase letters. Recognize and produce rhyming
words. Count, produce, blend, and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words. Isolate and pronounce the initial,
middle vowel, and final sound on three sound words. Produce the primary sound and many of the frequent sounds for each
consonant. Associate the long and short vowel sounds with letters. Read common high frequency words by sight. Distinguish
between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
Writing:
Text Types and Purposes
Use drawing, dictating and writing to compose opinion pieces, informative/explanatory texts, or narrate a single event or linked
events in sequence.
Production and Distribution of Writing
With guidance and support, respond to questions and add details to writing. Explore a variety of digital tools to produce and
publish writing.
Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Participate in shared research and writing projects. Recall or gather information to answer a question.
Language:
Conventions of Standard English
Demonstrate command of spoken and written English: Print many capital and lowercase letters. Use frequently occurring nouns
and verbs. Form regular plurals. Understand and use question words. Capitalize the first word of a sentence and the pronoun I.
Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short vowel sounds. Spell simple words phonetically.
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Identify new meanings for familiar words. Use word parts such as -ed, -s, re-, un-, pre-, -ful, and -less as a clue to the meaning of
a word. Sort words into categories. Relate words to their opposites. Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing the
same general actions by acting them out. (Examples: walk, march, strut, prance).
Kindergarten Math
Counting and Cardinality
Know the number names and the count sequence, Count to tell the number of objects, Compare numbers
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Understand addition as putting together and adding to, and understand subtraction as taking apart and taking from
Number and Operations in Base Ten
Work with numbers 1119 to gain foundations for place value
Measurement and Data
Identify, describe, and compare measurable attributes
Classify objects and count the number of objects in each category
Geometry
Identify and describe shapes (squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, hexagons, cubes, cones, cylinders, and spheres).
Describe, compare, create, and compose shapes.
Kindergarten End of Year Placement Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
Promoted to grade
Placed in grade
Retained in grade
