Webster Groves School District Progress Reports are designed to monitor and promote the district’s mission of ‘academic and personal success for every student.’  Teachers use a variety of measures to evaluate student progress through the year including class assignments, reading analyses, teacher observations and tests.  This progress report is one of many tools (others include conferences, portfolios, and work sent home) used to communicate information about your child’s academic and personal success.  It will be distributed three times during the school year and will show your child’s performance on the most important strategies and content of his or her grade level.

 LIVING AND WORKING

• Empathy and care for others
• Respect for self and others
• Accepts responsibility for actions
• Perseverance with his/her learning
• Attempts to resolve conflicts in appropriate ways
• Organizational skills to support learning

 SCIENCE 
 Pushes and Pulls

• Students who demonstrate understanding can plan and conduct an investigation to compare the effects of different strengths or different directions of pushes and pulls on the motion of an object
• Students who demonstrate understanding can analyze data to determine if a design solution works as intended to change the speed or direction of an object with a push or a pull.

Weather and Climate

• Students who demonstrate understanding can make observations to determine the effect of sunlight on Earth’s surface.
• Students who demonstrate understanding can use tools and materials to design and build a structure that will reduce the warming effect of sunlight on an area.
• Students who demonstrate understanding can use and share observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time.
• Students who demonstrate understanding can ask questions to obtain information about the purpose of weather forecasting to prepare for, and respond to, severe weather.

Plants and Animals

• Students who demonstrate understanding can use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.
• Students who demonstrate understanding can construct an argument supported by evidence for how plants and animals (including humans) can change the environment to meet their needs.
• Students who demonstrate understanding can use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants or animals (including humans) and the places they live.
• Students who demonstrate understanding can communicate solutions that will reduce the impact of humans on the land, water, air, and/or other living things in the local environment.

• Students who demonstrate understanding can ask questions, make observations, and gather information about a situation people want to change to define a simple problem that can be solved through the development of a new or improved object or tool.
• Students who demonstrate understanding can develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps it function as needed to solve a given problem.
• Students who demonstrate understanding can analyze data from tests of two objects designed to solve the same problem to compare the strengths and weaknesses of how each performs.

 SOCIAL STUDIES:

• Explains how to participate in society
• Understands how power, authority, and governance function in societies and affect their lives
• Understands the relationships between human beings and their environment
• Explains how human beings learn, modify, and adapt their cultures

 ELA

• Students will be able to read with understanding.
• Students will be able to analyze what they read.
• Students will be able to communicate in writing for a variety of purposes and audiences.
• Students will be able to share their thoughts with others by speaking and listening.
• Students will be able to acquire, assess and communicate information.

 MATH

Mathematical Practices:

• Students will be able to make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
• Students will be able to communicate mathematically.

 Content Standards:

• Students will know number names and the count sequence.
• Students will be able to count to tell the number of objects.
• Students will be able to compare numbers.
• Students will gain foundations for place value with numbers 11-19.
• Students will understand addition and subtraction.
• Students will be able to describe and compare measurable attributes.
• Students will be able to classify objects and count the number of objects in each category.
• Students will be able to identify, describe, and compose shapes.

 VISUAL ARTS

• Students will be able to create using the elements and principles of art.
• Students will be able to identify and select art work for a collection.
• Students will be able to observe, interpret and respond critically to a work of art.
• Students will be able to make artistic connections between themselves and the world.

 PHYSICAL EDUCATION 

• Students will be able to understand the proper steps needed to perform a skill correctly.
• Students will be able to demonstrate rhythmic routines and patterns using fundamental movement skills.
• Students will be able to describe basic principles of a healthy lifestyle.
• Students will be able to perform a variety of manipulative skills.
• Students will be able to participate in a variety of games while demonstrating cooperation, sportsmanship, and fair play.

 MUSIC

• Students will be able to create using the elements and principles of music.
• Students will be able to perform with musical instruments.
• Students will be able to create and perform rhythm patterns. 
• Students will be able to use the voice as an instrument.