What do the number scores mean?
6 - Exceptional Proficiency: The student consistently exceeds grade level standards. The student, with relative ease, grasps, applies, and extends the key concepts, processes, and skills above the grade level standard.
5 – Advanced Proficiency: The student consistently meets and often exceeds grade level standards. The student, with relative ease, grasps, applies, and extends the key concepts, processes, and skills for the grade level standard.
4 – Proficient: The student regularly meets and demonstrates proficiency in grade level standards. The student, with limited errors, grasps, and applies the key concepts, processes and skills for the grade level. The student is on target for meeting the end of the year standard.
3 – Developing Proficiency: The student is beginning to, and often does, meet and demonstrate proficiency in the grade level standards. The student, with limited errors, grasps and applies the key concepts, processes, and skills for the grade level standard.
2 – Limited Proficiency: The student is beginning to, and occasionally does, meet and demonstrate proficiency in the grade level standards. The student is beginning to grasp the key concepts, processes, and skills for the grade level standard but produces work that contains many errors. The student’s work indicates that the student may be retained.
1 – Minimal Proficiency: The student is not meeting or demonstrating proficiency in the grade level standards. The student is working on key concepts, processes, and skills that are one or more years below grade level. The student’s work indicates that the student may be retained.
What materials does my student need in order to be successful in fifth grade?
The most important tool students will need this year is a 2 inch 3-ring binder with dividers labeled as follows: Homework/Planner, Math, Reading, Writing, Science, Social Studies and Projects. The binder should also hold the student's Homework Planner and additional graph and lined paper.
How can I help my child become more organized?
The ultimate goal is for your child to be able to keep track of their materials on their own, gain responsibility, and become independent learners. However, some students need more parental assistance with this transition.
You can help by:
•Encouraging your child to use their binder and teaching them how to do so by filing papers in their proper places.
•Checking your child's binder and planner each night to ensure the work is complete.
•Having your child pack up her/his binder and backpack the night before after work is complete and leave it by the door (avoids rushing around trying to remember where everything is the next morning).
•Helping your child clean out his/her backpack on a weekly basis.