Your 1st grader will:

Learn new words, read stories aloud, and read independently.

Learn to write by planning, practicing writing, editing, reviewing, and completing pieces of writing.

Your 2nd grader will:

Count, read and write numbers; identify place value and fractions.

Know addition and subtraction facts up to the number 12; add and subtract with tens and hundreds (234 + 138); understand estimation.

Your 5th grader will:

Describe how wind, water and ice reshape the earth’s surface.

Recognize that plants make their own energy to stay alive and grow and animals get their energy from plants and/or other animals.

Your 6th grader will:

Read, understand and respond to a variety of publications through summarizing, identifying important information and themes, evaluating and interpreting what was read.

Follow a writing process that includes planning, writing, revising, editing and publishing pieces of writing.

Your 7th grader will:

Understand that a relationship between two variables such as X and Y, is proportional if it can be expressed in the form Y/X = K or Y = KX. (Algebra)

Use proportions and ratios to solve problems involving scale drawings, map scales, and conversions of measurement units. (Geometry)

Your 8th grader will:

Use scientific inquiry to design and conduct controlled experiments to explore the natural world around them.

Understand the processes that shape and create the earth including volcanoes, earthquakes, weathering, and erosion.

Investigate the factors that affect weather.

Your 9th grader will:

Read, analyze, and evaluate traditional, classical, and contemporary works of American literature.

Plan, organize, and write narrative, explanatory, and descriptive writing for a specific audience and purpose.

Your 11th grader will:

Determine the surface area and volume of pyramids, cones and spheres. Use measuring devices or formulas as appropriate. (Algebra 1)

Represent relationships in various contexts using equations involving exponential functions; solve these equations graphically or numerically.
(Algebra 2)

Your 10th grader will:

Design and conduct a variety of scientific investigations to understand the nature of scientific thinking and how scientific knowledge changes and accumulates over time.

Look at and study cells to understand how their molecular interactions control life.