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  

Shaping the Earth

• Students who demonstrate understanding can develop a model to represent the shapes and kinds of land and bodies of water in an area.
• Students who demonstrate understanding can use information from several sources to provide evidence that Earth events can occur quickly or slowly.
• Students who demonstrate understanding can compare multiple solutions designed to slow or prevent wind or water from changing the shape of the land.
• Students who demonstrate understanding can obtain information to identify where water is found on Earth and that it can be solid or liquid.

 Matter

• Students who demonstrate understanding can plan and conduct an investigation to describe and classify different kinds of materials by their observable properties.
• Students who demonstrate understanding can analyze data obtained from testing different materials to determine which materials have the properties that are best suited for an intended purpose.
• Students who demonstrate understanding can make observations to construct an evidence-based account of how an object made of a small set of pieces can be disassembled and made into a new object.
• Students who demonstrate understanding can construct an argument with evidence that some changes caused by heating or cooling can be reversed and some cannot.

Life and Environment 

     1. Environment - Ecosystems

• Students who demonstrate understanding can construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive.
• Students who demonstrate understanding can analyze and interpret data from fossils to provide evidence of the organisms and the environments in which they lived long ago.
• Students who demonstrate understanding can construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.
• Students who demonstrate understanding can make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environment changes and the types of plants and animals that live there may change.

     2. Life - Life Cycles

• Students who demonstrate understanding can develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.
• Students who demonstrate understanding can analyze and interpret data to provide evidence that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents and that variation of these traits exists in a group of similar organisms.
• Students who demonstrate understanding can use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment.
• Students who demonstrate understanding can use evidence to construct an explanation for how the variations in characteristics among individuals of the same species may provide advantages in surviving, finding mates, and reproducing.

 Engineering

• Students who demonstrate understanding can define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.
• Students who demonstrate understanding can generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.
• Students who demonstrate understanding can plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.

 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 institutions that affect their lives are created, maintained, and changed
• Understands how power, authority, and governance function in societies and affect their lives
• Understands how people organize for the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services
• Explains how to participate in 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 understand, represent and solve problems involving multiplication and division.
• Students will be able to multiply and divide within 100 fluently.
• Students will be able to identify and explain patterns in arithmetic.
• Students will use effective strategies, place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic.
• Students will understand fractions as numbers.
• Students will be able to solve problems involving measurement and estimation.
• Students will be able to represent and interpret data.
• Students will understand concepts of area and relate area to multiplication and addition.
• Students will be able to reason with shapes and their attributes and solve problems involving the perimeter of polygons.

 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 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.