Note: the following performance standards are just a small sampling of what elementary students will be able to accomplish. They may be used as key points of comparison for English language arts and math. These expectations do not include Spanish, Mandarin, science, social studies, art, fitness, and music.

Kindergarten 

• Read in a manner that sounds like natural speech
• Listen and discuss text read aloud and read independently
• Proofread writing to correct conventional errors in mechanics, usage, punctuation
• Use narrative, descriptive, expository or cross-curricular writing
• Know place values: ones, tens, hundreds
• Understand the concept of fractions (1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/8, 1/10, 1/100, 3/6, 4/5, etc.)

First Grade

• Identify, describe, compare and contrast plot, characters, and settings of fiction
• Select a focus, structure and viewpoint
• Be able elaborate using details and examples
• Work with dialogue and quotations
• Use regrouping to add and subtract double digit numbers
• Know multiplication facts to fives

Second Grade

• Discuss elements of genre
• Write a report using two or more sources; use the internet as a third source; apply note taking skills.
• Provide reports that include graphs and charts done in Microsoft Excel
• Know multiplication facts to twelves
• Multiply two digit numbers by a one digit number
• Know division facts to 100
• Perform long division
• Divide with a remainder