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
Life Science

• Students who demonstrate understanding can use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs.
• Students who demonstrate understanding can read texts and use media to determine patterns in behavior of parents and offspring that help offspring survive.
• Students who demonstrate understanding can make observations to construct an evidence-based account that young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents.

 Light and Sound

• Students who demonstrate understanding can plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials can make sound and that sound can make materials vibrate.
• Students who demonstrate understanding can make observations to construct an evidence-based account that objects in darkness can be seen only when illuminated.
• Students who demonstrate understanding can plan and conduct investigations to determine the effect of placing objects made with different materials in the path of a beam of light.
• Students who demonstrate understanding can use tools and materials to design and build a device that uses light or sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance.

• Students who demonstrate understanding can use observations of the sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be predicted.
• Students who demonstrate understanding can make observations at different times of year to relate the amount of daylight to the time of year.

Engineering

• 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

• Understands their historical roots and locate themselves in time
• Understands the relationships between human beings and their environment
• Explains how individuals interact and the consequences of these interactions
• Understands how power, authority, and governance function in societies and affect their lives
• Explains how to participate in society
• Understands how science and technology affect society

  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 be able to represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction.
• Students will be able to add and subtract within 10 fluently.
• Students will understand place value.
• Students will be able to measure lengths accurately.
• Students will be able to tell and write time.
• Students will be able to represent and interpret data.
• Students will be able to reason with shapes and their attributes.

 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.