At Little Star Program
Everything you need to care for your K-G5 Elementary School Kids
No two kids are alike, especially when it comes to hitting developmental benchmarks. But it helps to have a rough idea of which academic and social skills your child should acquire at his or her grade level. Learn more about your child’s classroom in such subject areas as reading, math, and science — or check your state’s academic standards to find out what students are required to learn. By the end of each school year, you can expect your child to:
Follow class rules
Separate from a parent or caregiver with ease
Take turns
Cut along a line with scissors
Establish left- or right-hand dominance
Understand time concepts like yesterday, today, and tomorrow
Stand quietly in a line
Follow directions agreeably and easily
Pay attention for 15 to 20 minutes
Hold a crayon and pencil correctly
Share materials such as crayons and blocks
Know the eight basic colors: red, yellow, blue, green, orange, black, white, and pink
Recognize and write the letters of the alphabet in upper- and lowercase forms
Know the relationship between letters and the sounds they make
Recognize sight words such as the and read simple sentences
Spell his first and last name
Write consonant-vowel-consonant words such as bat and fan
Retell a story that has been read aloud
Identify numbers up to 20
Count by ones, fives, and tens to 100
Know basic shapes such as a square, triangle, rectangle, and circle
Know her address and phone number
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Work independently at her desk
Listen to longer sets of directions
Read directions off the board, although some children may still have difficulty with this
Complete homework and bring it back the next day
Sit in a chair for a longer period of time
Be able to see things from another person’s point of view so you can reason with your child and teach her empathy
Relate experiences in greater detail and in a logical way
Problem-solve disagreements
Crave affection from parents and teachers
Have some minor difficulties with friendships and working out problems with peers
Distinguish left from right
Be able to plan ahead
Write words with letter-combination patterns such as words with a silent e
Read and write high-frequency words such as where and every
Write complete sentences with correct capitalization and punctuation
Read aloud first-grade books with accuracy and understanding
Count change
Tell time to the hour and half-hour
Quickly answer addition and subtraction facts for sums up to 20
Complete two-digit addition and subtraction problems without regrouping
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Begin to reason and concentrate
Improve his ability to process information
Work cooperatively with a partner or small group
Understand the difference between right and wrong
Make connections between concepts so he will be better able to compare and contrast ideas
Expand his vocabulary
Read fluently with expression
Recognize most irregularly spelled words such as because and upon
Begin to use a dictionary
Add single- and multi-digit numbers with regrouping
Tell time to the quarter-hour
Know the concept of multiplication (for example, 2 x 3 is two rows of three)
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Work cooperatively and productively with other children in small groups to complete projects
Understand how choices affect consequences
Become more organized and logical in her thinking processes
Build stronger friendships
Be helpful, cheerful, and pleasant as well as rude, bossy, selfish, and impatient
Be more influenced by peer pressure because friends are very important at this stage
Like immediate rewards for behavior
Be able to copy from a chalkboard
Be able to write neatly in cursive because the small muscles of the hand have developed
Read longer stories and chapter books with expression and comprehension
Use prefixes, suffixes, and root words and other strategies to identify unfamiliar words
Multiply single- and multi-digit numbers
Divide multi-digit numbers by one-digit numbers
Tell time to the half-hour and quarter-hour and to five minutes and one minute
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Begin to make more decisions and engage in group decision-making
Want to be part of a group
Think independently and critically
Have empathy
Show a strong sense of responsibility
Be able to memorize and recite facts, although he may not have a deep understanding of them
Increase the amount of detail in drawings
Work on research projects
Write a structured paragraph with an introductory topic sentence, three supporting details, and a closing sentence that wraps up the main idea of the paragraph
Use a range of strategies when drawing meaning from text, such as prediction, connections, and inference
Understand cause-and-effect relationships
Add and subtract decimals, and compare decimals and fractions
Multiply multi-digit numbers by two-digit numbers
Divide larger multi-digit numbers by one-digit numbers
Find the area of two-dimensional shapes
Have a greater awareness of fairness
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Be generally truthful and dependable
Develop increasing independence
Improve problem-solving skills
Acquire more-advanced listening and responding skills
Enjoy organizing and classifying objects and ideas
Be able to read and concentrate for long periods of time
Read complex text fluently and with good comprehension
Research a topic using a variety of sources, and use the features of a book (for example, the index, glossary, and appendix) to find information
Identify conflict, climax, and resolution in a story
Write an organized, multi-paragraph composition in sequential order with a central idea
Use problem-solving strategies to solve real-world math problems
Add and subtract fractions and decimals
Identify and describe three-dimensional shapes, and find their volumes and surface areas
Use long division to divide large numbers by multi-digit numbers
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