September 15, 2024
Students will receive their Cycle I Report Cards for the first six weeks of school on Friday, September 27th.
Grades can also be viewed in the HISD Connect Parent Portal.
Contact your student's homeroom teacher if you have not received the document with the login information for your student(s).
The Shared Decision Making Committee (SDMC) held its first quarterly meeting on September 10th. The meeting minutes can be found here.
Pre-Kindergarten Classes
This week's theme is "5 Senses"
(Student's Will Be Able To = SWBAT)
- SWBAT identify rhyming words.
SWBAT recognize and name letter Gg.
- SWBAT recognize and name letter Ee.
- SWBAT understand and use new vocabulary acquired through the read aloud
- SWBAT name uppercase and lowercase letters.
- SWBAT recognize and compare sizes of objects and people.
Kindergarten Classes
This week's theme is "Patterns in the Sky"
(Student's Will Be Able To = SWBAT)
- SWBAT Count and random set of objects and write numbers 1-7 using concrete and pictorial items.
- SWBAT model decomposition with concrete and pictorial representation.
- SWBAT identify elements of a story including settings, characters and key events.
- SWBAT listen actively to a story for comprehension and retell using 5 finger method.
- SWBAT observe and describe the changes in weather over the seasons.
1st Grade Classes
(Student's Will Be Able To = SWBAT)
- SWBAT describe elements of literary nonfiction
- SWBAT discuss the author’s purpose for writing text
-
SWBAT make inferences and use evidence to support understanding.
SWBAT Discuss and retell important events in order.
SWBAT spell words with common orthographic patterns and rules.
SWBAT organize with structure and develop an idea with specific and relevant details.
SWBAT dictate or compose literary texts, including personal narratives.
SWBAT use action words correctly in speaking and writing
SWBAT compose and make use of repeated reasoning on the addition chart by solving and analyzing problems with common addends and by looking for and coloring problems with the same total.
SWBAT look for and make use of structure on the addition chart by looking for and coloring problems with the same total.
SWBAT practice to build fluency with facts to 10.
SWBAT solve add to with change unknown math stories with addition, and relate to subtraction. Model with materials, and write corresponding number sentences.
SWBAT count on using the number path to find an unknown part.
SWBAT observe how heat causes reversible changes.
SWBAT investigate how some changes caused by heat are irreversible.
SWBAT describe the origins of customs, holidays, and celebrations of the community, state, and nation, and explain how patriotic customs and celebrations reflect American individualism and freedom.
SWBAT reflect and demonstrate mastery of Cycle 1 objectives
2nd Grade Classes
(Student's Will Be Able To = SWBAT)
- SWBAT retell a story using the Five Finger Retell strategy.
SWBAT determine the theme of a story.
- SWBAT use singular and plural nouns correctly in a sentence.
- SWBAT spell irregular plural nouns correctly.
- SWBAT use singular and plural nouns correctly in a sentence.
- SWBAT identify the Point of View of a Story.
- SWBAT describe the main character’s internal and external character traits.
- SWBAT analyze the Point of View of a story.
- SWBAT Use concrete and pictorial models to compose and count ones, tens, and hundreds to 1,200
- SWBAT generate a number by counting up and down between 100 and 220 using ones and tens.
- SWBAT generate a number by counting up and down between 90 and 1,200 using ones, tens, and hundreds.
- SWBAT write base ten three-digit numbers in unit form; show the value of each digit.
3rd Grade Classes
(Student's Will Be Able To = SWBAT)
- SWBAT recognize the characteristics and structure of various classic tales.
SWBAT analyze plot elements
SWBAT publish a piece of writing for a specific audience
SWBAT correctly identify and use pronouns
SWBAT explain the theme of a story
SWBAT Use use a scale to determine the distance between places on a map
SWBAT write letters adhering to standard conventions
SWBAT synthesize information to help with understanding
SWBAT order whole numbers up to 100,000.
SWBAT order whole numbers up to 100,000.
SWBAT compare whole numbers up to 100,000 using pictorial models and represent the comparison using the symbols >, < , or =. \
SWBAT round whole numbers to the nearest 10 or 100 on a number line.
- SWBAT round whole numbers to the nearest 10, 100, 1,000, or 10,000 on a number line.
4th Grade Classes
(Student's Will Be Able To = SWBAT)
SWBAT distinguish the theme from the topic in a given text.
- SWBAT edit sentence using adverbs.
- SWBAT distinguish the theme from the topic in a given text and use text evidence to support answer.
- SWBAT edit sentence using adverbs.
- SWBAT explain the interactions of the characters and the changes they undergo.
- SWBAT use newly acquired vocabulary.
- SWBAT describe how the author’s use of imagery achieves specific purposes.
- SWBAT use newly acquired vocabulary.
- SWBAT use text evidence to make an inference and support an appropriate response.
- SWBAT use newly acquired vocabulary.
SWBAT represent the quotient of up to a four-digit whole number divided by a one-digit whole number using arrays, area models, or equations.
SWBAT use a variety of strategies to apply on different sets of skills while taking their end of cycle assessment.
SWBAT use standard algorithm to divide up to a four-digit number by a one-digit divisor.
SWBAT use partial quotients to divide up to a four-digit number by a one-digit divisor.
SWBAT use partial quotients to divide up to a four-digit number by a one-digit divisor.
5th Grade Classes
(Student's Will Be Able To = SWBAT)
- SWBAT apply strategies to solve real-world problems for decimal products to the hundredths involving the area model.
- SWBAT apply strategies to solve real-world problems for decimal products to the hundredths.
- SWBAT represent division of decimals with up to four-digit dividends to the hundredths place and a one-digit whole
- number divisor using concrete and pictorial models.
- SWBAT represent division of decimals with up to four-digit dividends to the hundredths place and two-digit whole number divisor (concrete and pictorial models).
- SWBAT solve for quotients of decimals to the hundredths up to four-digit dividends and two-digit whole number divisors, using strategies.
- SWBAT identify the requirements for a functioning electric circuit.
- SWBAT demonstrate that electrical energy in complete circuits can be transformed into motion, light, sound or thermal energy.
- SWBAT compare and contrast matter based on measurable, testable, or observable physical properties including its ability to insulate and conduct electrical energy.
- SWBAT use context within and beyond a sentence to determine the relevant meaning of unfamiliar words or multiple‐meaning words.
- SWBAT summarize a text by reducing information to its main ideas and fundamental points.
- SWBAT summarize a text by reducing information to its main ideas and fundamental points.
- SWBAT explain the author’s purpose and message within a text.
